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ROSE 



Neighborhood Sketches, 



WAYNE COUNTY, NEW YORK; 



WITH 



GLIMPSES OF THE ADJACENT TOWNS: BUTLER, 

WOLCOTT, HURON, SODUS, LYONS 

AND SAVANNAH. 



BY 

ALFRED S F R'O E , 
A Native of Rose. 



'What's in a name? that which we call a rose 
By any other name would smell as sweet." 



Published by the author, 
worcester, mass. 

1893. 




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Copyright, [1893, 
By Alfred S. Rob. 



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PREFACE. 



This volume represents summer vacation work for eight years. Born of 
ancestors who were among the very first to redeem Rose soil from the 
wilderness, I cannot remember the time when the story of early adventure 
and hardship was not heard. Grandparents and great-grandparents filled 
my childish ears with anecdote and incident, so that when they had passed 
on, it seemed fitting to give the narrative a more permanent form than that 
of mere legend and tradition. This was the prompting to write, for the 
Clyde Times, in 1886, the first of the sexies, taking my native district, No. 
7. When that was ended, friends and relatives in adjoining districts said, 
" Ton must tell the story of Nos. 5 and 6 also." Accordingly, they fol- 
lowed in successive issues of the Times. In this way the beginning was 
made. When they were finished, the idea of going over the entire town 
began to take shape, and the eventual visitation of every home in Eose was 
the result. Having gone through the more or less ephemeral shape of a 
newspaper serial, and having been read by many, through a wide extent 
of country, I was told that the matter deserved the lasting form of a book. 
Obedient to such advice, the book was projected, and here it is. lu secur- 
ing data for these pages, I have walked and ridden above one thousand miles 
in and about the town. Were I to include the distance covered in reach- 
ing Eose, from my Massachusetts home, and in visiting New York places, 
to some degiee connected with Eose, the aggregate would nearly exceed 
belief. Very few persons write more than one town history. Such a 
work needs the whole heart of the writer. He mnst have grown up 
thoroughly imbued with the ideas of the town, and its story, he must 
have drunk in with his mother's milk. Then, he must have a certain 
amount of leisure for investigation, and, above all, he must be able and 
willing to write out the results of his birth, rearing and searchings. These 
necessities prevent his undertaking more than one such venture. "My 
native town!" There is only one, and its progress from the forest prim- 
eval to cultivated fields is told in the following pages 

Hilly countries are filled with clannish people. The ranges of drift 
hills, so characteristic of Wayne county, have formed excellent boundaries 
for school districts. Had the town, as in New England, rather than the 



iv ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 

county, been the unit of political organization iu this state, the people 
throughout Rose had been better acquainted with each other. The youth 
reared in District No. 7 was wont to have in mind, as temr incognita', 
such sections as " Over East in Butler," meaning the land beyond the 
Loveless range of hills ; " North of Wolcott " was to him as remote as was 
Gaul to the ancient Romans ; " West of the Valley," for all reachable pur- 
poses, might as well have been west of the Eocky Mountains; while 
' ' South of Clyde ' ' meant a region as unknown as is the Antarctic continent 
to the navigator. Fortunately, common church relations brought the most 
of the people together, as a rule, once a week, though every one of the 
neighboring towns has claimed, from the very beginning, some Rose citi- 
zens as church members. Then, too, the acquaintance of residents on the 
borders of school districts has prevented absolute crystallization and com- 
plete non-intercourse. Spelling schools, husking and paring bees, brought 
the young people of a wider area than one school district into intimate 
acquaintance, an intimacy that frequently ripened into matrimony. In 
fact, intermarriage in Rose has been so extensive, that were every family, 
resident in town for thirty-five years, to be represented by a ring, while 
the ring on the eastern side would not be very near that over on the Lyons 
border, yet were these to be interlocked in marriage, the taking up of one 
would involve the whole number. The truth of this statement can be 
easily ascertained by any one who chooses to follow out the marriages 
given in this book. 

As the school district, in its political and social relations, comes nearer than 
the N. Y. town to the principle of self-government and to intimate acquaint- 
ance, I have made that the unit in my story. The dates at the head of 
each chapter tell when the matter appeared in the Clyde Times. To com- 
prehend fully the time involved, the reader must have the sliding temporal 
scale in mind. All changes, since the first writing, are indicated by paren- 
theses. In making the book I have had to leave out much. It has 
been a choice of materials. Anecdote and incident that would add a 
fourth to the volume, have been elided. The genealogical data have been 
given in passing rather than in separate chapters. I have aimed to make 
the narrative one of to-day, a series of events now passing, rather than one 
of yesterday, all in the buried past. 

The story is told with the heartiest good-will towards everybody. Hav- 
ing no axes to grind, nor grudge to pay, I have made the book, possibly 
unduly i?o«eate, but this is a matter for each reader to settle with himself. 
If some families are given more in detail than others, it is because said 
data were more easily forthcoming. When facts were given, I have aimed 
to use them. In embellishing the volume with illustrations, I have, as a 
rule, abstained from the use of pictures of people now living,- save in the 
case of my own family and in that of town oflicers. The most of the pic- 



KOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. V 

tures of individuals, liave been secured with great difficulty, and many 
have had to be copied before going to the engraver. Obviously, the re- 
sults are not the best pictiires in the world, but they do serve to show us 
how the first settlers looked. Rose abounds in scenery worthy the painter's 
brush, and my camera was used in many places that are not shown in these 
pages, simply because the sun and the plates did not respond to my efforts. 
In other words, the negatives were not good. 

This book should not go forth without rendering thanks to all those who 
have aided in its preparation. As every one who has written a letter or 
answered a question has thus contributed, I hereby thank each and all, not 
only for helping me, but for their zeal and affection for the township. 
which is or has been home. As these pages are read, I hope the 
thought will be constantly in mind that the silent sleepers in our ceme- 
teries fought a good fight, that we of to-day might eujoy what they suf- 
fered for. Let us not forget the first settlers who, in house and field, 
toiled unceasingly that the comforts of civilization might follow. 

Hoping that the story of Eose, thus told, may bind us yet more closely 
to the scenes of our childhood, and that our common regard for each other 
may hereby be intensified, this volume is -submitted to any and all who 
care for the town in which they reside, or which was formerly their home. 

ALFEED S. EOE. 
Worcester, Mass., Nov. 20, 1893. 



CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS. 

Page 21. Wm. Sherman died in Butler, and liis son, Henry, was in the llltb Inf. 

Page 28. Tlie Martin Saxton place is now owned and occupied by Robert Weeks. 

Page 47. Wm. Hallett was married Sept. 13, 1893, to Miss Ida Bovee, of Wolcott. 

Page 52. For Sally Bump, read Bundy. 

Page 57. Mrs. Ida (McKoon ) Wickwire died Sept. 22, 1893. Ernest O. Seelye and 
family have returned from Dakota to the home farm. 

Page 62. For Mary Champion, read Champney. 

Page 67. Add to Oaks family, Charles G. Oaks, Jr., of North Rose. 

Page 113. John W. Vanderburgh is living in Des Moines, Iowa. 

Page 115. The farm house of Geo. Catchpole was burned Oct 19, 1893. 

Page 185. Mr. Jeffers Dodds sold his farm in October, '93, to Mr. Loren Lane, 
formerly of Rose. 

Page 195. For Alonzo, read Lorenzo Snow. 

Page 203. Ml-. Geo. H. Green died Sept. 26, 1893. 

Page 311. For Mrs. John, read I\Irs. Joseph Phillips. 

Page 391. Add John Sherman, Feb. 6, 1864; H, 111th Inf.; Sept. 10, 1864. 



THE TOWN OF ROSE. 



Location. — This town is about three miles north of the village of Clyde, 
a station on the N. Y. Central E. E., midway between Syracuse and 
Eochester. It is about eight miles south of Lake Ontario, and is east of 
the middle line of Wayne Co. 

Geology and Topography. — In this town are extensive ledges of lime- 
stone that have been worked both for building and burning purposes. At 
Glenmark, the ledge outcropping produces a very interesting waterfall, 
shown in the illustrations. Here, too, may be found fossils peculiar to the 
Clinton group of the Niagara period, to which group and period the town 
geologically belongs. Among the cobble stones, or hard head rocks, with 
which a large part of the surface is covered, may be found many conglom 
erate shell petrifactions. They are water worn, but, as a rule, show their 
composition excellently. Obviously they came here by the same agency 
which produced our many ranges of hills, viz., the ice march or movement. 
The late George S. Seelye found several specimens of orthocemtidce, which 
showed admirably both the fossil and the cast. Farmers' boys have 
turned up these specimens for years, exciting usually no further remarks 
than ' ' I wonder what they are. ' ' There is not a stone wall in the town 
which has not some of these fossils, remnants of a Paleozoic age, doing the 
ignominious service of field defending instead of gracing a college cabinet. 

The hills of Wayne have formed the theme of poet and of scientist. The 
late Dr. Lawrence Johnson, of New York City, himself a native of Sa- 
vannah, found in them a never ceasing source of interest and enjoyment. 
Upon them he prepared a valuable monograph, " The Parallel Drift Hills 
of Western New York," read before the New York Academy of Science, 
Jan. 9, 1882. In this, he shows that our long ranges were formed under 
the immense glaciers that once overspread this section, naturally taking 
the direction of the ice stream. When the ice disappeared the hills were 
saved from denudation by the resulting water, which formed a vastly 
greater Ontario. He says, " This lake undoubtedly discharged its waters 
southward through the valleys in which lie the small lakes of the moun- 
tain ridge. During this period the parallel drift hills were in deep water, 
and hence beyond the reach of denuding agencies, though they doubtless 
received the f1eb7-is of melting icebergs, particularly the large boulders of 
crystalline rocks which here and there dot the surface, but are not now 
present in the boulder clay." The traveler along the line of the N. Y. 
Central E. E. cannot help noticing these elevations, pronounced and of a 



ROSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. Vll 

singular regularity. If at all given to surface observation, he cannot 
readily forget the impression. Wayne, and to some extent Cayuga county, 
are noteworthy for their ridges. They are nowhere mountainous nor ex- 
actly precipitous, save, possibly, their northern terminations, which are 
steeper than elsewhere. All of them are cultivated, but it would doubt- 
less be much better were the western sides allowed to grow up to woods. 
The eastern slopes iuvite the early sun and fairly laugh in wonderful 
fertility. To the farmer no finer sight can be had than the fields along 
these morning sides, for instance, those of William S. Hunt, lately Colonel 
Briggs', or thoseof the John B. Roe and Roswell Marsh farms. Of these 
hills. Rose has twelve well defined illustrations, viz., south from the Delos 
Seelye farm ; that extending into Galen from the southeast part of the town 
and the one immediately west ; then there are two ranges, including much of 
the old Finch and Benjamin farms ; leading north, from a point back of 
William H. Griswold's farm, is a ridge which, to some extent, shuts off 
the view of that forming the western boundary of the Town district ; still 
further to the north is the high hill, the highest in town, one hundred and 
forty feet, back of the Roseview or Sherman Brothers' farm ; immediately 
to the westward is the long range leading down to the Valley ; southwest 
of the village is found, first, the hill on which once dwelt the Drowns, now 
owned largely by George Milem ; west of the Valley, on the Jeffers road, 
is the hill on whose summit lived the Dodds and Glen families, while last 
of all, looking off towards Lyons, is the range long held by the Ways, 
Worden and Weeks people. 

In the southeast the drainage is in that direction, reaching finallj' the 
Montezuma marshes and Seneca river. In the southwest, water flows 
toward Clyde river ; in the northwest, through Mudge's creek, the flow is 
into East bay, while west of the Mirick or Closs hills, the water finds its 
way into Great Sodus bay. The surface, for many square miles north- 
ward from Clyde, is as level as a tennis court, and until the Sodus canal 
was undertaken, there seemed to be very little inducement for water to 
flow in any direction. 

Soil and Peoducts. — Men who have wandered far have i-eturned to 
Wayne county with the reflection that no part of the country can produce, 
in abundance, a greater variety of objects which contribute to the good of 
mankind than Wayne. Fruits, vegetables and grain in almost limitless 
kinds and quantities are here produced from tree, bush and soil. The 
latter is a gravelly loam, mingled with clay in places, and in the swamps 
the blackest of mud abounds. At any rate, this is true of Rose, for in the 
county no township more thoroughly merits the application of the intro- 
ductory remark than this. The early settlers found immense trees — beach, 
maple and hemlock, with ash, cedar and tamarack in the swamps. The 
legend still lingers of a buttonwood or .sycamore, near Wayne Centre, so 
large that a section of it was used as a dwelling house after it had fallen 



Viii ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 

down and proven to be hollow. In fact, one of the interesting stories of 
the late Simeon I. Barrett was that of putting up at the Buttonwood tavern 
early in the century. The late Hiram Church of Wolcott said that in 1808 
three families, numbering fourteen people, young and old, put up at this 
same inn for the night and were well entertained. Osgood Church, his 
father, was one of the guests. He also says this was on one of the Jeffers 
farms. Maple trees furnished a large part of the sugar used by the first 
settlers; beach, hewed and mortised, formed framework for buildings that 
yield to no destroyer save fire, while hemlock afforded material for tan- 
ning, and siding for house and barn. The swamps were dark, luxuriant 
and almost impassable. In fact, as late as the forties my father once wan- 
dered several hours in the tamarack swamp, now the Osgood onion fields, 
thinking to make a short cut to the Valley, only to emerge, at last, near the 
point of entrance, viz., near where Stephen Chapin now resides. When 
the late Linus Osgood discovered the onion-raising qualities of this black, 
vegetable mold, he added scores of dollars per acre to its valuation. Some- 
thing in soil and atmosphere has made this county the peculiar home of 
peppermint. Rose dwellers remember how rank it grew by the springs in 
early days, and how it was gathered and hung up for winter's use. Early 
in the century, says Anson Titus, Phelps' historian, a certain Andrew 
Burnett of Deerlield, Mass., who had gathered mint along the streams of 
his native state, came west in the effort to dispose of his distilled product. 
He found the plant in greater abundance here than elsewhere, and so set- 
tled, following his vocation. The farmers, quick to discern a good thing, 
began to cultivate, and from Lyons the growing eventually worked into 
Eose. Latterly, the raising and evaporating of blackcap raspberries has 
proved a paying industry, experience having taught Rose farmers that they 
cannot compete with the western wheat growers. After all, probably, the 
crop that promises most to the careful husbandman in Rose is that which 
comes from his apple orchard. Barreled green or in a dried condition, 
this fruit is as necessary as wheat, and the world must have it. No part 
of the country raises more to the tree or better in quality. Each year will 
see additional orchards planted, till, in a sense, the town will return to 
woodland. The census data in this volume show what have been raised; 

already 

" Round about them orchards sweep, 
Apple and peach tree, fruited deep." 

I.NDiANS AND Eelics. — It is probable that the territory included in our 
town once formed a part of the Cayugas' possessions. Still it was on the 
border of the Senecas' lands, and may have been an almost neutral section, 
thus accounting for the limited finds of relics. While in some parts of the 
country arrow-heads and hatchets are found in abundance, any such 
memento is rare in Rose. Eelics in the possession of George W. Aldrich, in 
North Eose, and of AbnerOsborn, in the Valley, are noteworthy examples. 



KOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. IX 

Mr. L. H. Clark in his Military History narrates the finding of a piece 
of a cannon on the old Collins farm, in the Valley, about fifty years since. 
Chauncey B. Collins, now living in Clyde, was his informant, and he 
describes the relic as eighteen or twenty inches in length, having a bore of 
about two inches. The place of finding was north of Wolcott street. 
Unfortunately the item was lost, else what an interesting beginning it 
would make for a Rose museum. A little further north, on what is now 
Fisher land, then that of Thaddeus Collins, Jr., was found an old axe, of 
shape and make indicating French origin ; near by also was found a bit of 
ancient pottery. Arrow-heads have been found along the ridge where 
now lies the road north from the Valley. These facts to Mr. Clark suggest 
the existence, years since, of a line of forts or fur trading posts follow- 
ing the old Indian trail which led from Crusoe lake along Marsh creek 
into the plain west of the Valley and so to Sodus bay. Pertinent to the 
foregoing is the finding in 1889 by Dwight Flint, just over the Rose line, at 
the head of Sodus bay, of a large quantity of lead and bullets. Though 
Mr. L. H. Clark, H. H. Wheeler of Butler and Mr. D. M. De Long of Rose 
all took part in discussing the how and when the material came where it 
was found, it does not seem that the supposition is disproven that the bul- 
lets may have had to do with early times. In 1891, July 5, Mr. Stephen 
B. Kellogg found in his corn field, on the old Aaron Shepard farm, an 
exceedingly well-preserved silver coin of the value of an old shilling piece, 
having this inscription: "Ferdinaudus VI., D. G. Hispaniarum Rex. 
1751." Older far than the settlement, it may have been lost by some early 
explorer, French or English, passing through these parts from one post to 
another. Of course it is barely possible that a settler may have possessed 
and lost. At any rate, the coin remains. 

Original Ownership. — The early charters of Massachusetts and Con- 
necticut included all the land between certain parallels from the Atlantic 
to the Pacific. At the same time, New York, through her charter, held all 
now included within her borders. Accordingly, New York possessed 
what two other states claimed. This was especially true as to Massachu- 
setts. Before the Revolution it is supposed that the Bay State agreed to 
New York holding sway over all that territory between the boundary of 
the two states and the extreme western line of settlements made before the 
War. After the War the dispute was reopened, both states claiming juris- 
diction over western New York. Instead, however, of appealing to arms, 
as the Michigan and Ohio people did in the thirties, these parties, with 
whom the memory of battles against a common foe was still fresh, left their 
case in the hands of commissioners, who met in Hartford, Conn., Dec. 16, 
1786. These officers were Oliver Wolcott, Richard Butler and Arthur Lee, 
all being men revered in American history. They confirmed the sovereignty 
of New York over all the territory in dispute, but to Massachusetts was 
conceded the preemption right of the soil from the native Indians of all 



X EOSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 

land lying in the state west of a line drawn due north to Lake Ontario, 
from a point in the north Pennsylvania line eighty-two miles west of the 
northeast corner of that s.tate, excepting a territory, one mile in width, the 
whole length of the Niagara river. Also, they ceded to Massachusetts a 
tract equal to ten townships, each six miles square, between the Owego 
and Chenango rivers. In 1800 an amicable agreement was effected with 
Connecticut, whereby the latter state received from the general government 
lands west of New York, and thereupon relinquished all claims upon the 
future Empire State. 

Massachusetts, then, had to secure a title from the Six Nations, whose 
hunting grounds and homes she had acquired from New York. There 
were sharpers in those days as well as later, and efforts to negotiate with 
the natives were frequently frustrated by the nefarious advice of these com- 
panies of men, who had united to rob the Indian and to cheat the white 
man. In 1787 Massachusetts contracted all her claims to the land west of 
the Pennsylvania line, about 6,000,000 acres in all, to Messrs. Oliver 
Phelps and Nathaniel Gorham for .«100,000, to be paid in three installments. 
Here is the origin of the famous Phelps and Gorham purchase. Canan- 
daigua was the headquarters of the new project, and here in July, 1788, 
was effected a treaty with the Indians, prominent among whom was the 
noted Red Jacket. After opening this great tract to settlers, the purchasers 
in 1790 sold all remaining lands to Mr. Robert Morris, a man of great wealth, 
a resident of Philadelphia and a signer of the Declaration of Independence. 
He it was who loaned to the government, in its distress, more than a 
million dollars, yet late in life he lost his fortune and spent some time in 
a debtor's cell. The price paid by Mr. Morris was about eight pence per 
acre, but he soon turned his contract over to a syndicate of English gentle- 
men, viz., Sir William Pulteney, who held nine-twelfths ; John Hornby, 
two-twelfths, and Patrick Colquhoun, the remainder. The chief capitalist 
was the first named. Hornby was a retired East Indiaman, having been 
governor of Bombay. He also was a capitalist. Colquhoun was a states- 
man and philanthropist. The London agent effecting this sale was 
William Temple Franklin, a grandson of Benjamin Franklin. They paid 
£75,000 for the lands, and passed their management over into the hands of 
Captain Charles Williamson, who had been a British officer during the 
War, but who became thoroughly imbued with the American spirit, and 
managed the business of his principals with great success. At that time 
foreigners could not hold landed interests in this country, hence the vesting 
of titles in Williamson, who took the oath of allegiance in 1792. He was a 
native of Balgray, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, and to that country he retired 
when through with his labors in America. The property was known as 
the Pulteney estate, with land offices in Geneva and Bath. 

However, the territory included in Rose did not fall into this allotment. 
Its connection therewith came about thus : When the preemption line 



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Hon. Robert 8. Rose. 



ROSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. XI 

was run out it touched Lake Ontario some distance further west than was 
expected, but no complaint was made, till some years later it was discov- 
ered that an apparently intended deflection had been made to the west, 
far south of Geneva. To obviate this fault a new line was run, that known 
today reaching the bay at Briscoe's cove instead of three miles west, as 
run at first. Again, to compensate Eevolutiouary soldiers for their serv- 
ices. New York had promised a large tract of land along her western border, 
or near the preempted Phelps and Gorham purchase. The northwest 
township in this allotment contained more land than some later counties. 
Through Eomulus, Washington, Junius and Wolcott, we come finally to 
Rose; but in the early assignments it was found that the state had disposed 
of land included in the Gore that triangular strip having its acute angle 
near the Chemung river, its base Lake Ontario and its sides the old and 
the new preemption lines. To compensate, there was made over to the 
Pulteney estate all the land now embraced in the town of Huron; in "Wol- 
cott a strip on the west side, about two miles in width, the same boundary 
line extending through Butler, touching Savannah near the residence of H. 
H. Wheeler, Esq., and all of Rose save three lines of lots extending across 
the town and into Butler to the above-named line, said lots being known 
as Annin's gore, though they really make a rectangle. In other words, 
these compensating lands extended from Annin's gore northward, taking 
certain portions of Rose, Butler, Wolcott and all of Huron. This was 
known as Williamson's patent. 

Early in the century an extensive purchase was made by Messrs. Rose 
and Nicholas of Geneva. This land, 4,000 acres in extent, lay on both 
sides of the Clyde and Valley road from Annin's gore, or near the farm 
house of William H. Griswold, to within three-quarters of a mile of the 
north line of the town, or to the northern boundaries of the Lyman and 
Covell districts. There was a western ell included between a line drawn 
from a point just north of Isaac Campbell's house and the northern line, a 
little beyond the home of Mrs. Charity Stearns, and both running to within 
less than a mile of the western limits of Rose, or a trifle west of where the 
widow Messenger now resides. 

The Rose and Nicholas purchase suggests certain names that should 
have mention here. Robert S. Rose and John Nicholas were Virginians 
by birth, and through marriage, brothers-in-law. Nicholas came of an old 
Virginian family, born Jan. 19, 1764, in Williamsburg, Westmoreland 
county, and was elected to the 3d, 4th, 5th and 6th Congresses from that 
state. After settling in Geneva, in 1802, he became prominent in all local 
matters, devoting himself largely to agriculture. In 1806-7-8-9 he was a 
member of the State Senate. He was presiding judge of the Ontario 
county court. He died Dec. 31, 1819. 

Robert Selden Rose was born in Henrico county in 1772. In coming to 
Geneva he made very extensive investments on the east side of Seneca 



Xll ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 

lake. Both families brought slaves with them from the Old Dominiou. 
Mr. Rose's wife was a Lawson. He was a member of the New York 
Assembly in ISll, '20, '21, and was in Congress during the sessions of the 
18th, 19th and 21st Congresses. He died suddenly, while about to get 
into a sleigh, in the village of Waterloo, Nov. 24, 1835. He had long been 
apprehensive of a sudden death and had kept his affairs arranged for such 
an end. As his picture amply shows, he was a man to be revered and 
honored. Said a little girl, when looking at it, " How much he looks like 
George Washington. ' ' His extensive pos.sessions, in the very heart of Rose, 
secured for the township his family name. Descendants of both of these 
gentlemen are prominent citizens of Geneva. 

Titles and Agents. — Titles to farms in Rose ran from the Williamson 
patent through the Geneva agents to those purchasing. It was in 1790 
that Morris sold to the syndicate. Captain Williamson managed the 
affairs of the estate till 1801, when, worn out with his arduous duties, he 
surrendered his position to Robert Troup, then of New York City. He 
visited the section repeatedly till 181-1, when he became a resident of Gen- 
eva. He died in 1832 at the age of 74 years. Troupsburg, in Steuben county, 
was named for him, and an old map, 1838, gives Sodus Point as Troup- 
ville. He was a distinguished soldier during the Revolution. Williamson 
returned to Britain and there died in 1808. As sub-agents were John 
Johnston, John Heslop and Robert Scott, till we come to Joseph Fellows, 
who was by far the most important factor in these early sales. Many local 
agents were employed, and the first settlers in those parts transacted their 
business with Osgood Church of Wolcott. Associated with Mr. Fellows 
for some years was an active little Scotchman by the name of Andrew 
McNab, and he was accustomed to go about the towns looking after pay- 
ments, etc. "You won't drive me off," said a delinquent to him on one of 
these visits. "Oh, no," was the ready answer; " the weeds and briers 
will do that soon enough." He frequently remained in Wolcott a week or 
two, keeping in sight the interests of those whom he served. By the side 
of an old church in Geneva I find this inscription, which tells about all 
that is now to be had about him : "Andrew McNab, a native of Scotland, 
died at Geneva, Oct. 26, 1829, aged 46 years." In 1862 Mr. Fellows asso- 
ciated with himself Mr. Edward Kingsland of Geneva, and in 1871 Mr. F. 
retired, leaving the latter in care of what is left of the former great interests. 

From a grand-nephew of Mr. Fellows, H. C. Heermans, I am enabled to 
present the following facts: "Joseph Fellows was born at Eedditch, 
Worcestershire, England, July 2, 1782. In September, 1795, his father 
and family, then consisting of his wife and seven children, of whom Joseph 
was the oldest, emigrated to America. After a brief stop in New York, he 
pushed on to Luzerne county. Pa., where Scranton is now, leaving 
Joseph in New York to study law with Isaac L. Kip, the indenture being 
made June 24, 1796. He served his time faithfully and received his cer- 




Joseph Fellows, Esq. 



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tificate July 2, 1803. In his work for Mr. Kip he came in contact with 
Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr and other distinguished lawyers of the 
day. Here he met Colonel Robert Troup, and at the age of twenty-one was 
offered a situation at the salary of $600 per year, which he accepted instead 
of entering his profession. Subsequently, as stated, he became in 1832 
principal in the management of the vast property of the Pulteuey estate. 
When 89 years old he gave up the trust. In 1873, April 29th, he died in 
Corning, Steuben county, N. Y. In his own affairs, he began by saving 
a portion of his scanty earnings, even in his apprenticeship days. In his 
agency work his salary was increased from time to time, till on succeeding 
to the full direction he received $5,500 per year. This income during a 
long life, with his habits of economy, afforded a continued surplus, which, 
being invested in lands and otherwise, made him a millionaire. In his 
agency his strong point was his strict, unswerving honesty. With millions 
of money passing through his hands, there was no effort on his part to 
make money at the expense of his employers. While not a member, Mr. 
Fellows was a liberal supporter of the Episcopal Church." 

SuEVEYS.— Colonel Hugh Maxwell, who has been called the "hero of 
Bunker Hill," superintended the first survey of the Phelps and Gorbam 
purchase, beginning in July, 1788, and completing the same in the next 
year. To accommodate certain parties who had settled at Geneva, the 
subordinates of Maxwell deflected their north and south line so far to 
the west that Geneva was left out. In 1791-92 Adam Hoops directed 
another survey, which relocated the preemption line, leaving it as it is 
today. The land included between the two lines amounted to about 84,000 
acres. Still, all of this was west of the Williamson patent, in which Rose 
was included. These lands were not opened for actual sale till (Hiram 
Church says) June 16, 1808. As to the surveys of this tract, I am indebt- 
ed for the following data to John C. Bishop, of Lyons, though a native of 
Rose. Valentine Brothers began his surveys from the vicinity of Sodus 
bay, where, at Port Glasgow, the Helms had located, being the first 
settlers in those parts, they coming a little before the close of the last 
century. He made his surveys to suit the settlers who were already on 
the grounds, thus laying out 17 lots, and the beginning of the numbering 
at this point is thus accounted for. Mr. Bishop says, "Then proceeding 
easterly he laid out lots 18, etc., following the old ' Sloop Landing ' road 
and numbering on each side till he put in the large lot, No. 50, in the east 
bound of the district (where is now the village of Wolcott) ; thence south 
along the east line of the tract till he reached the southeast corner, having 
by this time scored 63 lots, with very little regularity as to sizes, shapes 
or positions. So anxious were the parties to sell they would lay out a lot 
anywhere, of any size or shape wanted, and the numbering was continued 
in the order of date. I think more than thirty years elapsed between the 
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Matthewson, John M. Gillespie, Elias E. Cook and others." The Rose 
and Nicholas purchase, of 4,000 acres, was sub-divided by the owners to 
suit circumstances. As to Annin's gore, the strip in the south part of 
the town, Mr. Bishop says: " The surveyor general, Geddes, in an attempt- 
ed ' smart trick,' caused a map to be made, allotting the original town of 
Galen. It was submitted to the Legislature and approved, and an appro- 
priation made to pay for the labor, the representation before the Legis- 
lature being that the work had already been performed, while the fact was, 
only a few base lines had been surveyed. The next summer Joseph 
Annin and others were sent to survey the tract according to the map. 
They found the territory larger than the map, both ways. As they could 
not (very well) move Seneca river, they changed the numbers and filled 
out the Gore on the west, making a very long lot for No. 1, between the 
map as constructed and the new preemption line as it really existed. On 
the north, the overplus strip was known as Annin's gore. The next year 
Annin surveyed it into lots as laid down in the map. Joseph Annin, 
together with Humphrey Howland and others, were in the employ of the 
state, under the direction of the surveyor general, for several years. They 
laid out a large part of the military tract, and, so far as I know, the whole of 
it." This Joseph Annin was a conspicuous figure in Cayuga county ; from 
1803 to 1806 he was a state senator, and in 1799 and 1800 was sheriff, in 
fact the first one in the county. His home was in Genoa. The account- 
ing for the peculiar western boundary of Galen and the queer parallelogram 
in the south part of Eose is exceedingly interesting. Eron N. Thomas, in 
his Eose sketch furnished to Everts' " History of Wayne County," makes 
the exact dimensions of the town to be six and one-half miles east and west 
by five and one-quarter miles north and south, and the area to be 21,849| 
acres. It should be stated that Mr. Hiram Church, in his valuable articles 
on the old town of Wolcott, contributed to the Lake Shore News, several 
years since, said that the surveys and allotments were made in 1805-6 by 
John Smith, to whose maps early deeds make frequent reference. 

Settlements. — Exactly when the first settler came, or who he was, will 
never be clearly known. No record, however, is had of any dwellers 
before Alpheus Harmon and Lot Stewart, who came in 1805. Very likely 
Caleb Melvin came at very nearly the same time, to a point south of the 
Valley. In those days the spirit of unrest was, if possible, more rife than 
it is to-day. Besides, for several years it was difficult to secure perfect 
land titles. Hence the migrant halted for a brief time, and if a breath 
of trouble arose, hastened toward the ever inviting west. Inevitably the 
first comers were squatters. They built wherever they found a good loca- 
tion, naturally selecting a spot by the side of a spring. When surveys 
were made, some early comers bought, others moved on. The very earliest 
data at hand are those furnished by the late Hiram Church, from his 



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father's book. Osgood Church's record gives 117 contracts. Of these, 
those falling within our bounds were as follows : 

Alpheus Harmon, lot 169, llSj^o acres, at $3.50, June 21, 1808; now the Chester 
Ellinwood farm. Also, same date, lot 170, 114iS„ acres, at $3.50; now the George 
Steward or Jones place. 

Pendar Marsh, lot 205, 50 acres, at $4.00, Jan. 11, 1811; the John B. Roe farm. 

Epaphras Wolcott, lot 160, 100,£„ acres, at $4.00, Jan. 30, 1811; the Brockway and 
Mnnsell places. 

Seth Shepard, lot 187, 40 acres, at $4.00, April 1, 1811; now Hopping and Collins. 

Daniel LounslDerry, lot 206, 106 /„ acres, at $4.00, April 3, 1811; now Chatterson, 
McKoon and Lockwood. 

Jonathan Wilson, lot 140 (south half), 50 acres, at $4.00, April 3, 1811; Eustace 
Henderson place. 

John Wade, lot 185, 107| acres, at $4.00, April 16, 1811; now Joel Lee. 

Asa and Silas Town, lots 212 and 213, 150 acres, at $4.00, Nov. 11, 1811; now 
Desmond and Town. 

John Burns, lot 153, 108;^ acres, at $4.25, April 8, 1812; the Jonathan Briggs 
farm, in part. 

Abram Palmer, lot 140, 102 acres, at $4.00, April 22, 1812; now Lovejoy and 
Henderson. 

Thomas Avery, lot 154, 103 acres, at $4.25, May 4, 1812; in part the farm of 
Charles Harper. 

Demarkus Holmes, lot 187, lOl/o acres, at $4.32, June 25, 1812; long the Joseph 
Seelye farm. 

Nodadiah Gillett, lot 132, 101 acres, at $4.00, Oct. 2, 1812; now Barrick and York 
farms. 

Eli Wheeler, lot 188, 99i"„ acres, at $4.00, Nov. 13, 1812; now Hopping and 
Hendricks. 

Jacob Ward, lot 140 (in part), 60 acres, at $4.25, Nov. 12, 1812; possibly Buchanan 
farm, in part. 

Elijah How, lot 167 (east side), 50 acres, at $4.00, Nov. 18, 1812; the Samuel 
Osborn place. 

Jonathan Wilson, lot 161 (south end), 31 acres, at $4.25, Dec. 29, 1812; Lawson 
Munsell farm. 

Asahel Gillett, lot 155, 50 acres, at $4.25, Mar. 10, 1813; Avery H. Gillett farm. 

Thaddeus Collins, 1st, lot 141, 99 acres, at $3.50, Oct. 23, 1809; farms of J. S. 
Salisbury and E. Jones, in Butler. 

After 1813 the work of sub-agents ceased, and thereafter all business 
was done with the main office in Geneva, which became the Jerusalem up 
to which the early settler had to make his yearly pilgrimages ; frequently 
the road was a via dolorosa. The books of the Geneva business are not at 
present in accessible form, so that a continuation of facts like the fore- 
going is impossible. Much of the land was bought on speculation, and for 
longer or shorter periods was held by men who never came to these parts. 

EoADS, Etc. — It was not until 1810 that regular surveys were made. 
Till that time roads ran anywhere, at least they found the settler, or he 
made them in going from his home to that of his neighbor. In time it be- 
came desirable to straighten these paths and to make them passable at 
all seasons of the year, hence their official location. Osgood Church's 
old record book gives the first Rose road as that leading east from 
Stewart's corners, and the date is May 10, 1810 ; next is that north from 
Clyde to the Valley and Stewart's, June 29, 1810; from Port Glasgow to 
the Valley, March 20, 1811 ; north from the corners, at George Rodwell's, 
to Stewart's, May 11, 1811 ; east from Shear's corners, Dec. 25, 1812 ; 



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from Glenmark to North Rose, April 1, 18I4. Mr. Church was himself 
the surveyor. This ends Mr. Church's record, and the burning of Wolcott's 
first data precludes further early facts in this direction. To-day the roads 
are as good as the average in western New York. Perhaps that from the 
Valley to Clyde is much better, succeeding the plank road, whose tolls 
necessitated considerable care on the part of the stockholders. It had a 
good beginning and the dwellers upon it have kept it very well. The ma- 
terial for making the roads of Eose well-nigh perfect is yet lying, more or 
less a nuisance, in the fields of the town, in the shape of cobble stones, so 
annoying to tillage ; but when the stone crusher has been purchased, and 
the principles of McAdam are better understood. Rose may have thorough- 
fares that will be a pride and a delight. 

Our town is among the "might-have-beens" in some respects. As 
early as 1841, General William H. Adams, of Clyde, secured a charter for 
a canal to extend from that village to Sodus bay, and its location was to be 
very near the Valley. Everybody knows "Adams' ditch," and it is fre- 
quently referred to in the following pages. In 1827 a preliminary survey 
was made, but Oswego was clamoring for connection with Syracuse and, 
through superior wealth, won. General Adams' devotion to this dream of 
his lifetime was touching. What he wrote upon the subject would fill 
volumes. His letters are clear, earnest and pointed. Possibly, some day, 
the wheels of time will develop the fact that he was not altogether a 
dreamer. Joseph Fellows was one of the promoters of his scheme. 

Then there was the project for a Pennsylvania and Sodus bay R. R. The 
charter was granted in 1850, and there were numerous share takers in 
Rose, the matter reaching its climax in 1870. In 1853 was printed the 
engineer's report, and from it the following words are taken: "Starting 
from Port Glasgow the railroad was to follow the margin of the bay, or 
nearly so, till it came near the town line. Thence it was to pursue a little 
more westerly course, till it neared the Valley, which it was to pass, only 
800 feet west of the main street. Its course southward is nearly direct, 
crossing the Clyde and Lyons highway, the Erie canal and then turns and 
runs parallel with the Central R. E. to Glasgow street." Eron N. Thomas 
was treasurer and a Rose director. The others from this town were Henry 
Graham and Chauncey B. Collins. William H. Lyon, of New York, was 
also a director. There is extant a letter from Joseph Fellows, in which he 
pleads the infirmities of age for not embarking in the enterprise. 

However, what water and steam have failed to do, there is little doubt 
that electricity will yet accomplish. His reputation as a prophet would 
not be greatly imperiled who should predict that the year 1900 will see a 
line of electric roads connecting Clyde and the Valley ; thence diverging, 
one part will extend to Wolcott and beyond, while the other will pass 
. through North Rose, Port Glasgow, and will terminate at the Lake. 



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SCHOOL DISTRICT XO. 7. 

Oct. 21— Dec. 2, 1886. 

In presenting these articles, it is my purpose to note the ownership of 
the farms ; the families and the buildings that have for years past been 
associated with this section, confining myself, for the present, to that part 
of the district embraced in Eose. 

Xo. 7 lies three miles east of the Valley, as old residents call the village 
of Eose, and includes a slice of Butler, i. e., that portion of the town lying 
along the border road, second in number, to the westward of the Loveless 
range of hills, running south from Spencer's Corners, a locality better 
known to "ye inhabitants" as Whisky Hill. The district itself includes 
one long line of hills, or at least one side of it, the east, from the former 
residence of Delos Seelye, deceased, to the farm of Eos well Marsh. Two 
roads crossing have made, at the home of the late George Seelye, a four 
corners, noted for many miles around on account of the hospitality of Col. 
Seelye and the eminent respectability of the neighboring residents. A few 
rods to the eastward stood for nearly or quite forty years the cobble stone 
school-house, wherein the children of the vicinity received the essentials 
of an education, and whose homely figure gave to the section a distinguish- 
ing feature and a name. 

Having, then, our bearings, let us go back to the remote past 
and learn what the early names were. Starting from the extreme 
northern part of the district, we have, on the west side of the 
road, first, the home, or what is left of it, of Joseph Seelye, who 
died February, 1854, an old man of seventy-seven years. He was 
born in Kingsbury, Washington Co., X. Y., of Connecticut ancestry. 
He early married in Stillwater, Saratoga Co., X. Y., Elizabeth Carrier, 
of an old Sharon, Conn., family, and, with her, essayed a farmer's 
life in Sherburne, Chenango Co. Here all his children, save the youngest, 
Delos, were born. A desire to better his condition prompted him to go 
still further west, and in March, 1815, he moved his young family to this 
then an almost unbroken wilderness. Blazed trees formed the chief means 
of tracing the roads through the forests. One Holmes had taken up the 
farm on which Mr. Seeyle located, and a small log house with a few acres 
of cleared area formed the only improvements on what was to be the 



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" honiest^ead." The willing bands of his two sturdy sons, George and 
Ensign, contributed not a little to the success of the venture, till the 
younger, Ensign, at the early age of nine, was killed by the fall of a tree 
which he was engaged in cutting down. The place of the lad's death was 
the field just north of the barn, and neai-ly in line with it. The log house 
gave place, about 1S20, to one of the most commodious structures in the 
vicinity, and in point of comfort it may be doubted whether it has ever yet 
been excelled. Large fields in time surrounded it, and they, with their 
owner, were well known for leagues around. "Uncle Joe Seelye" was a 
character well remembered by middle aged and older people as a man of 
most marked i^eculiarities. Kind-hearted and generous when his feelings 
were touched, he was, nevertheless, choleric and opinionated. Of vast 
proportions physically, he found summer's heat almost unendurable, and 
frequently sought consolation and comfort in the coolness of his cellar. In 
winter, while others grumbled at the cold, he would sit in his shirt sleeves 
upon his porch and laugh at their discomfort. For years, the people 
entering his yard saw resting against his red horse barn a slab of marble 
having the inscription, "Sacred to the Memory of Joseph Seelye," he 
having thus providently made preparation for his demise. His coffin, too, 
he had provided and stored at an undertaker's. He boasted that he had 
his tombstones and cofiQn ready, had hired a minister to preach his funeral 
sermon, and he is known to have offered a neighbor a pig if he would agree 
to dig his grave. Amusing anecdotes are still told of his eccentricities. 
It was " Eate" Barnes whom he sent into a cherry tree to pick fruit and 
compelled to whistle all the time he was " up the tree," so that he might 
waste no time, "Uncle Joe" threatening him with the most terrible 
caning if he abated his music for a moment. I sorrow now over the 
terrible pucker into which that poor boy's lips must have gathered. He 
long had in his employ a lad who is now one of the most respected citizens 
of an adjoining town, but who in his youth fairly put nature to her test in 
devising schemes of mischief. It was a never failing source of delight to 
H. to do something which would arouse the old gentleman's ire and cause 
him to attempt a pursuit, ending always in his falling, and, owing to his 
rotundity, remaining prone, until some one, usually his wife, came to his 
rescue. Prompted by some older people, the boy once performed a 
wanton act, for which " Uncle Joe" determined to pay him in full, and so 
bided his time until one luckless moment — luckless for the boy — he was 
caught in one of the stalls of the barn. The immense form of the irate 
farmer filled all the space. Escape was impossible, and for once H. felt 
the full weight of the cane and the strength of Mr. Seelye's arm. Back of 
the house in the orchard was the first cider mill of this vicinity. It was 
made in the true "down east" style. A huge sweep was moved around 
by horse or cattle power, and diligent industry might run through seven or 



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eight barrels a day, provided the apples were reasonably juicy. The 
great wooden screws used in the press were in existence only recently, 
though the mill has not been used for nearly fifty years. Back of the 
main structure once stood a smaller house, in which Mr. Seelye's son, 
George, lived for a time, but in 1S56 this was moved away to become a 
corn crib for his youngest son, Delos. The great red barn, erected near 
the road, also went up the hill. In time the shed and wood-house 
disappeared ; the wide, shady piazza fell away aud the old house stands 
only a suggestion of its former self. After Mr. Seelye's death, in 1S54, 
this portion of his estate fell into the hands of his sou, Delos, aud the old 
house became a sort of caravansary, in which abode, for a season only, a 
long line of tenants, the mere enumeration of whose names would make 
many lines of this article. The noble walnut tree, one of the largest in the 
town, still stands in front of the house, but there is little else to remind 
one of the beauties of the past. The great cherry trees have grown old and 
fallen. The Isabella grape that clambered over the cherry tree has also 
gone, and everywhere we see proofs of the truth that man and his works 
are perishable. 

Mr. Seelye was twice married. His first wife dying in 1833, he wedded, 
in 1834, Miss Lorinda Clark, of ^Yaterloo, ))ut a native of Connecticut. 
She survived him many years, dying in ISSO, at the advanced age of 92 
years. Many changes have been wrought in the years since 1815. Then 
the howl of the wolf resounded at night-fall from the hillside, aud Mr. 
Seelye's favorite diversion was deer hunting, A black bear once ambled 
across the garden where he and his son, George, were at work. Forests 
covered nearly all the surrounding country, aud to procure material of the 
proper kind for his house he had to go to Piueville every day — he and 
George — to draw logs to Wolcott, to be cut into Ix)ards. He left two sons, 
George aud Delos, and a daughter, Mary Louisa, who married Dudley 
Wade, aud was long a resident of the district. 

Passing to the southward along a road on whose sides apple trees still 
grow, the result of Joseph Seelye's thoughtfulness, we come, on the 
corners, to the place where for more than fifty years George Seelye 
greeted his friends and dispensed free-hearted hospitality. Coming to the 
country in its newness, he had marked all the changes in his surroundings 
from 1815 to the date of his death, December, 1885, What constituted his 
original homestead was a lot of ten acres at the cross roads, obtained by 
way of trade from his father. He had erected a modest house, set out an 
orchard of ap^jle trees and surrounded his house with cherry trees, for 
many years the most prolific fruit bearers in the vicinity, and making his 
place one much thought of by all the boys in those parts. Many a tumble 
have luckless youngsters taken from those branches, but no one was ever 
seriously injured. On the death of his father, Mr. Seelve was able to 



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extend his farm to the northward, making his estate very compact and 
valuable. He had early wedded Polly Catharine, the younger daughter of 
Aaron Shepard, the first settler in the district; but he never took his wife 
to his new home, as she died in 1829, leaving a daughter, Polly Catharine, 
who married, in 1843, Austin M. Eoe, the youngest son of Austin Roe, one of 
the early comers to the neighborhood. In 1834 Mr. Seelye married Sarah Ann, 
daughter of Dr. James Sheffield, of Sherburne, Chenango Co., who survives 
him. His son, James Judson, who served in the 9th Heavy Artillery, 
married Frances, daughter of Artemas Osgood, long a resident of the 
district, and now resides just north of the "old home," on what is known 
as the Aldi-ich place. His second daughter, Eudora, married, in 1865, 
Lucien, elder son of Artemas Osgood, and for several years lived north of 
her father's, on one of the Lovejoy places. She died in 1870. The third 
daughter, L. Estelle, married, in 1878, Merritt G. McKoou, a schoolmate, 
born and reared in the Butler part of the district, and with him retains the 
"old place." Mr. Seelye enjoyed the confidence and esteem of his fellow 
citizens, was a life-long Baptist, and in early life was very active in the 
state militia, holding, in succession, the offices of adjutant, major, 
lieutenant-colonel and colonel of the 186th Regiment. The titles of 
colonel and deacon are indifferently applied to him. 

Just opposite the Seelye home, on the south side of the road, was, years 
ago, a log house which Mr. Seelye, in the early part of his married life, used 
as a barn. Before that, it was occupied by one Ransom Ward, who after- 
ward moved to Whisky Hill and ran a potash factory. Again, diagonally 
across, near where James Armstrong's dwelling stands, was another log 
house, built by a Mr. Eaton, a would-be settler from Connecticut. He 
came up with Mr. Shepard, but, at the period of moving, his courage 
failed him, and he gave his possessions into the care of Mr. Shepard, who 
finally became the owner in full. Also on the north side of the road, a 
little west of Mr. Seelye' s, was a log house once occupied by Mr. Savage 
and his family. These humble houses, I have been told, were built upon 
the lands of certain parties for the occupation of wood cutters, who labored 
in clearing up the country, and whose wages, I learn, were oftentimes 
quite one-half paid in whisky, of which the proprietor was wont to lay in 
a plentiful store. Long since, the very last vestige of the houses 
disappeared, not even so much as a currant or lilac bush, nor sprig of 
tansy, remaining to show where families lived and children played. 

Proceeding to the east, just beyond the school-house, on the north 
side of the road, wei-e we to look shai-p, I doubt not we should find the re- 
mains of an old log house already old as long ago as the oldest inhabitant 
can remember. Passing over the long line of early occupants, it will suf- 
fice to state that its last tenant was Edward Stickles, who married Sarah, 
oldest child of Abram Chatterson, of the same district — Xo. 7. This house 



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■was on the farm of Diulley "Wade, who for many years lived in the large 
white house still further to the east, on the south side of the way, and is 
now the home of Oliver Bush. (Sidney P. Hopping, 1893.) The farm orig- 
inally belonged to John Springer, who sold to Mr. Wade and went further 
west. Dudley Wade, who was born in Paris, Oneida Co., in 1806, was of 
excellent Connecticut parentage, his father being Dudley, son of Dr. John 
Wade, who died in Oneida Co. in 1803. His own father dying when he 
was very young, he was brought up by his uncle, John Wade, a brother of 
Mrs. Aaron Shepard, wife of the first settler. Before getting through with 
these sketches, it will be seen that almost every permanent settler in this 
neighborhood was, in one way or another, related to his neighbor. Mr. 
Wade's wife was Mary Louisa, the only daughter of Joseph Seelye, a most 
estimable lady, now residing with her daughter Imogene at South Butler. 
His sou Joseph married Emma, daughter of Artemas Osgood, and lives in 
Eose Valley. Ensign married Lucy, daughter of Kendrick Sheffield, and 
grand-niece of Mrs. George Seelye. He is a farmer on one of the Ellinwood 
places just east of the Valley. Frank, a promising boy, died in 1875 in 
Boston. Imogene married Chester Irish, a native of Indiana, but of a Ca- 
yuga county family. She is now a widow, as is also her only sister Emily, 
who married a Mr. Cushman of South Butler. Mrs. Irish has three daugh- 
ters, Lorena, Dora and Maud. The large house, so long Mr. Wade's home, 
was erected by Mr. Springer, he having bought a few acres of Aaron Shep- 
ard for this purpose. For some reason, inscrutable to us, he was unwill- 
ing to have his home on the same side of the road as his barns, which were 
and are now quite extensive. In one of these barns was a stationary 
threshing machine, to which the farmers carried their grain to be threshed, 
just as now they take it to the mill to be ground. Columbus Collins, a 
native of the district, was, when a boy, severely injured by falling into the 
machinery when in motion. Geo. Seelye has been heard to say that this was 
the worst place for threshing that a man ever suffered in. For some inex- 
plicable reason Mr. Wade was prompted to sell his farm during the War 
to Messrs. Abraham and John Phillips of Wolcott. They, however, held 
it but a short time, in turn selling it to Hudson E. Wood, who had married 
Catherine, daughter of Thaddeus Collins and grand-daughter of Aaron 
Shepard. He, too, soon passed the place along to Oliver Bush of Oneida 
county. Mr. Bush keeps up the relationship traditions of the vicinity, 
being a cousin of Mrs. John B. Eoe. Mr. Bush's wife was a Stone Ijefore 
mari-iage, and her mother, an aged lady, lives with them. They have four 
sons, Leverrier, Fletcher D.,Lavello S.and Edward. He has held the estate for 
nearly twenty years, and has introduced many improvements, both in the 
house and upon the farm. He is one of the two farmers of the district who 
have made hop growing a specialty. Just now, in addition to hops, he is 
giving much attention to lierries. (Mr. Hopping has still further improved 



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the jjlace, repairing hoiise and barns, making them among the most attract- 
ive in the town.) His eldest sou, Leverrier, married some years ago, and 
resides in a new house erected recently on the north side of the road and a lit- 
tle further to the east. Near this spot there stood many years ago a log house, 
among whose early occupants was Philo Saxton, father of Martin Saxton 
of Butler. An earlier tenant was a Mr. Brewster, whose son Samuel mar- 
ried Experience, a sister of John Kellogg. John Ogram, long a well known 
resident on the plank road south of the Valley, was her second husband. 
Brewster, the tailor of Wolcott, and his brother, once proprietor of the 
Clyde Hotel, and Decatur B., are her sons, and there was a daughter, Polly, 
by Mr. Ogram. She was the mother of Priscilla, who is Mrs. Wm. Wes- 
cott of Syracuse; and James, who lives in the north part of the town. (In 
1891 Mr. L. Bush sold to Frank A. Hendricks, who, Wolcott born, married 
Eva Vought of the same town. They are Rose Methodists. Mr. Bush and 
family went to Syracuse. There are 4-t acres in the farm.) Xearly oppo- 
site, in years agoue, was another log house, in which at one time lived Mr. 
Goodrich, the Baptist minister. This house, with the ten acres upon which 
it stood, was given to Geo. Seelye in lieu of one hundred dollars, the stip- 
ulated compensation for one year's labor given by him to Aaron Shep- 
ard immediately subseciuent to his marriage to the old gentleman's daugh- 
ter. He, however, never lived upon the place, but traded it with his father 
for the place upon the corner. Eeturning, for a moment, to Dudley Wade, 
it ought to be said of him that he purchased, after leaving District No. 7, 
first, the old Fuller place, near Eose Valley, and afterward the Ellinwood 
farm, just east of Fuller's. Here he died in 1876. The name Dudley has 
been prominent in many successive generations of the Wade family, or 
ever since Jonathan Wade of Medfoi'd, Mass., married, in the 17th cen- 
tury, Deborah, daughter of Gov. Thomas Dudley of that state. I hope 
others may yet bear this cognomen as honorably as the Dudleys of the 
past. It is safe to say that uo man in the town of Eose was ever more 
widely known ; whether as auctioneer, speculator or marshal at a county 
fair, everybody knew " Dud. Wade." There may be cases where he was 
beaten in repartee, but few of them are recorded. The man who tried to 
get a joke on Wade usually retired from the contest dejected. His merry 
joke and his hearty laugh will linger long in the memories of those who 
knew him, and instinctively we ask, "Why couldn't such men live longer?" 
A quarter of a mile beyond Mr. Bush's, on the same side of the road and 
on the Butler side of the town line, about thirty years ago Frank Eice, son 
of Jonathan Eice of the Bntler part of the district, was killed by the kick 
of a horse. He was one of the merriest youngsters that ever delighted a 
parent's heart, or worried a school teacher. He was returning from 
school, and, in his frolics, going too near the heels of a lively team driven 
by Steijhen Kellogg, was kicked so violently that death ensued in a few 



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hours. For several years a board erected, having a picture of the boy 
inserted, served as a warniug to all chiklreu. 

Eeturning to Seelye's corners we will journey westward, pausing as we 
go to note the disappearance of the woods that, till recently, filled the val- 
ley on the south side of the road, and to lament the dwindling of the brook 
at the foot of the hill, which, through climatic changes, has become a mere 
suggestion of its former self. The hill we have before us is no ordinary one, 
but years of worliing have rendered it a little more easy of ascent. At the 
left on the slope of the hill, half way up whose sides we are, stands a house 
repaired about thirty years since by Sheldon E. Overton, now of Wolcott. 
Daniel Soper built it. Since Mr. Overton disposed of it to Henry Klinck, 
who married Caroline, eldest daughter of Artemas Osgood, the place has 
remained almost unchanged save in owners. Mr. Klinck sold to Homer 
Stone, a brother of Mrs. Oliver Bush, who in time sold to Edgar Arm- 
strong, who now resides there. He married Libbie, adopted daughter of 
Oliver Bush, and their three children are Morton, Lullavine and Tirgil. 
Mr. Armstrong has long been a resident of the district, having lived with 
his father, James Armstrong, for many years upon the Dr. Dickson place. 
(Mr. Armstrong has recently completely renovated the house inside and 
out. ) The first note of this place that we have, is its occupancy by a 
Rhodes family, who lived away up on the very top of the hill, to whose log 
house led the road which yet runs np the side of the almost mountain, 
and which serves a very useful i^urpose now as a farm way. When at 
home these people certainly had a most breezy outlook. In time, however, 
they wearied of their elevated home and moved the frame additions to their 
house down to the road, or near it, and this was the building so long 
the abode of the Lewises and Sopers. In time the father died, the widow 
married again and moved away, and the place became the home of a family 
named Lewis, whose stalwart sous are yet recalled by the older residents 
of the neighborhood. They were from the east, Connecticut, I think, and 
only paused here a while on their journey westward. After them came 
Daniel Soper, an industrious man, brother to Brewster Soper of 
Eose, who reared here a very large family.' His mother died 
Feb. 19, 1S65, at the age of 79. Daniel, the eldest son, is still in the town. 
Eobert and William, with a sister, Phfebe, moved years ago to Berkshire 
county, Mass., and there married. Deborah married a Mr. Saulsbury and 
lives at the Valley. Annette is the wife of Asahel Colvin of Wolcott. Delia 
died young, while Emma and Alfred are unmarried. (The latter has since 
died.) During Mr. Soper's residence ni^on the place, it was held by the 
General Adams Agency, a corporation that purchased everything that 
could be bought, as some will remember, at the time that a canal was con- 
templated from Sodus to Clyde. The melancholy traces of this venture still 
exist, west of the Valley, in the shape of its channel, still called Adams' ditch. 



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Erou Thomas was long the agent for this and other farms, and from him Mr. 
Overton purchased in 1855. Still further along the ridge of this hill, per- 
haps a half mile south, was another log house, still marked by the apple 
orchard which stood near it, where dwelt a family named Gould. All that 
I can learn concerning them is that Mr. Gould taught singing school, and 
that they all long since moved away. The place was once in the possession 
of Milton Town, who sold to James Benjamin, the present owner. 

Crossing the road from Edward Armstrong's, we shall find the comfort- 
able-home of Joseph Eoat, whose wife, Angeline, is the eldest daughter of 
Delos Seelye, for many years the owner of these fertile acres. They have 
two daughters, Nellie and Inez. The first resident here carries us back to a 
log house, standing some distance from the road in what is now the orchard. 
This resident was a certain John Holloway, who married the widow 
Ehodes, and moved, I am told, down near Clyde, but just when and where I 
can't tell. He sold to Zach. Esmond, of whom I know nothing save that 
he had a nickname of " Ishmael," and that he was a Protestant Methodist 
in religious matters, not over enterprising either physically or spiritually, 
and he in turn sold to Delos Seelye. Mr. Seelye was a native of this dis- 
trict, being the youngest sou of Joseph Seelye. He married early in life 
Almanda, daughter of Erastus Fuller, one of the oldest dwellers on the 
road leading to the Valley. She was in all respects a most worthy help- 
meet, and by hand and counsel assisted Mr. Seelye in securing a compe- 
tence. There was a small frame house standing near the road when Mr. 
Seelye purchased, and in this he and his family resided till along in the 
fifties, when he instituted the changes, making his home one of the most 
pleasant in the vicinity. No one who ever knew Delos Seelye could forget 
him. Nature had endowed him with a physique such as seldom falls to 
the lot of man. During his youth and early manhood it may be doubted 
if he knew what fatigue was. From dawn to twilight he could lead 
in all the labor that then made up the farm routine. He laughed at any 
mention of rest. When he wished to push matters even more strenuously, 
he would secure the services of a Mr. Stickles, a Mokawk Dutchman, who 
lived a mile or so south of him, and who was the only man in the vicinity 
capable of keeping up with him, and together they would crowd each other 
in the harvest field from sun to sun, accomplishing as much as four com- 
mon men could do in the same time. He made very little difference in his 
work on account of the weather. A thing to be done must be done, rain 
or shine. At the table he was just as energetic as in the field. Great stories 
are yet told of the work that he could do and of his feats of strength. All 
this could have but one ending, and before he was fifty years old, broken 
in constitution, he retired from his farm to the Valley, where he lingered 
out a few years of invalid life. He died in August, ISVO, at the early age 
of fifty- four. Kind-hearted and generous, he passed away lamented by a 



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^ide circle of friends. As already noted, his oldest daughter married 
Joseph Boat of Steuben county, and now holds the old place. (Now owned 
by Eansom Jordan of Lyons. The Boats are in Clyde. Nellie, married, lives 
in Watkius.) His second daughter, Annie, married Felton Hickok, aEose 
boy, who served his country in the 9th Heavy Artillery, and who lived 
many years on the old homestead, in fact succeeding her father and re- 
maining till followed by Mrs. Boat. Mr. and Mrs. Hickok now reside in 
the Valley. The youngest child, Elnora, is the wife of Valorus Ellinwood 
and lives just south of the Valley. At her home, in 1SS3, died her mother, 
Mrs. Almanda Seelye, a lady of no ordinary mental ability, as all will tes- 
tify who have argued with her on topics in which she was interested. 

Going to the west, we next come to the place where Thomas Smart, an 
industrious Englishman, long had his home. His particular trade was and 
is that of a ditch digger, acquired, I believe, among the fens of Lincoln- 
shire, England. No man in the town could make so perfect a trench as he, 
and, I suppose, very many miles of tile of his laying now underlie the 
fields of Eose. At one time he was blind, but always he was the soul of 
industry. His home he located on a swampy corner of Lyman Lee's farm, 
adjoining that of Delos Seelye's. This land he tried to reclaim by his 
deep and excellent ditches, but in spite of all his care his surroundings 
were, to put it mildly, damp. During the present season he has yielded 
to the inevitable, and has moved the house to a sandy acreage that he has 
for some years possessed, nearly opposite the home of Kendrick Sheffield. 
Mr. Smart's sons — George, John and William — have grown to be, like 
him, worthy and industrious citizens. His only daughter, Mary, takes 
the place at home of the mother, who died several years ago. 

Nearly opposite the late site of Mr. Smart's abode is a modest house 
erected by Egbert Soper, a brother of Daniel, mentioned already. The 
first family of whom I can obtain any trace upon this farm was named 
Hodge, and they lived in a log bouse just on the side of the hill to the west 
of the present location. Mr. Hodge sold to John Pierce, who for some 
time resided here. He had three sons, at least, and a son of one of them, 
Eugene, married Emily, daughter of S. E. Overton, and lives in Huron. 
John Fairchild, Baptist clergyman, also lived here a while. To the Pierces 
and Fairchilds succeeded Mr. Soper, who, for many years, lived in the log 
house, and there reared his children, of whom Theron, early deceased, will 
be remembered as a young man of rare promise. Mr. Soper' s wife was 
Margaret, a daughter of John Deady, a respected farmer living about one 
mile south. Charles and James Deady, of Eose, are brothers. After Mr. 
Soper left this place it was occupied for a time by Nehemiah Seelye, son of 
Benjamin and a nephew of Joseph Seelye. He afterward went to Michigan 
and there died. His sons— Boyal, Alfred, a member of the 9th Artillery, 
and Frank— accompanied him. He had one daughter, Mary, who now 



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lives in Michigan. This x^roperty passed into the possession of Joel 
Sheffield, of the Valley, who still retains it, the house being the home, in 
succession, of so many families that it would be difficult to enumerate 
them. Josie Way, the daughter of one tenant, is recalled as a very 
pleasant school girl. She subsequently became Mrs. Heman Shepard of 
Galen, and died Mai'ch 1st, 1892, aged 38 years. Upon the level ground 
beyond the ascent we come to the home of Kendrick Sheffield. I am under 
the imjiression that the house was erected by William Briggs, who long 
retained it. He had a lively family, some of whose members are yet 
remembered with pleasure. Their names were Sarah, Mary and Harriet. 
There were sons, John and others. Elder Graham, a Baptist minister, 
came next, who had a son, and a daughter Louisa. Afterward succeeded 
Elder N. Ferguson, pastor of the Baptist Church of Eose. He believed 
that contact with the soil was conducive to excellence in the pulpit. He 
had children, who were entertaining members of Eose society during their 
father's pastorate. Clark Ferguson was a scholarly boy, who afterward 
became a minister himself. The daughters were Emma, Minnie and Mary, 
the latter of whom were school teachers of note. 

Kendrick Sheffield, who purchased from Elder F., is a nephew of Mrs. 
George Seelye. His father, James, moved from Madison county early in 
the fifties, and located on the place now owned by Gleason Wickwire, he 
buying of Hudson Wood. Mr. Sheffield married, in Madison county, Mary 
Ann Chase, sister of Mrs. Wickwire. He has reared a family of children 
on this farm, and they having left the homestead he is again alone. His 
oldest son, Judson, married Ornie, daughter of Peter Harmon, of the 
Valley, and is now in the employ of a Eochester firm. His second boy 
and namesake, whose black eyes few who knew him will forget, died 
several years since, just as he was blossoming into the manhood which 
everybody said he would ornament. The youngest, James, is a promising 
lawyer in Lincoln, Nebraska. Of his two daughters, Lucy is the wife of 
Ensign Wade, as stated before, while Mattie married Chas. Osborne, and 
lives in Oneida Castle. Mr. Sheffield has long been noted for his taste 
and success in the care of horses. Perhaps no man in the town has done 
more to improve the quality of this kind of stock than he. So far as I 
know, he was the first man in the town to cultivate hops, and with Mr. 
Bush the only one to keep up the culture through a term of years. (Mr. 
Sheffield died July 10, 1892. Chas. Osborne, now on the farm, is a 
graduate of Colgate University, a son of one of the professors. By him 
the house has been much improved and many salutary changes have been 
made on the farm. Mr. and Mrs. Osborne have two children, Kendrick 
N. and Lucy E.) 

Just west of this place, on lot 193, once stood a house bought by Chas. 
Sherman from George Seelye, and in it the older Sherman children were 



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born. It was afterward moved to the northward, and is now the home of 
Henry Decker. A little west of opposite is the pleasant house where live 
Thomas Smart and his children, George and Mary. Thrift and neatness 
here reign sui^reme. 

The next place on the south side of the road is held by the widow of the 
late Linus Osgood. Years ago it was the property of Chas. Sherman, 
who, with his first wife, Lucina Allen, reared here many children, whose 
names are well known in town. His second son, Willard, married 
Permilla, daughter of John and Betsey Kellogg, of Butler, and has lived 
for many yeaj-s in Clyde. The other sons were George, married Sybil 
Wilson and living in Eose ; Charles, killed a year or two since upon the 
Hudsou- Central R. E.; Frank, the oldest, who married a Moore, of Spencer's 
Corners; and Ezra, who (a member of the 111th, X. Y.) was taken 
prisoner and died in the hands of the rebels. Their only daughter, Lucy, 
married Putnam Sampson, and lives on the old Mackie place on the Clyde 
road. After the death of his first wife he married Miss Charlotte Tyler, of 
Butler, who, with her sons, Chester T. and Ezra A., manages the farm one 
mile east of the Valley, to which he moved after selling his first home. 
Mr. Sherman was a man of great energy and perseverance, and is well 
remembered as a valuable and patriotic citizen. During his holding of the 
farm it belonged to the Valley district, but, at the request of Artemas 
Osgood, to whom he sold, it was set off as a part of ]S(0. 7. Mr. Osgood 
moved into Rose from Hamilton, Madison Co., and was, with his large 
and interesting family, an exceedingly worthy addition to the town. Mr. 
Osgood is of Massachusetts birth, and has ever manifested the sterling 
qualities so characteristic of the land of the Puritans. His wife, who died 
in 1870, was Harriet Pierce. Many will recall her mother, a gracious lady, 
who spent her last days here. His older son, Lucien, married first, 
Eudora Seeyle, as already stated. She dying in 1870, he afterward mar- 
ried Matilda, daughter of Glcason Wickwire, and resides in Rose. The 
younger son, Linus, into whose hands the farm passed, married Sarah 
Sheffield of Xew York City, a grand-niece of Mrs. George Seelye, and, till 
his death, Oct. 9, 1886, maintained one of the most successful places in 
the town. The tamarack swamp, in the rear of his farm, has proven to be 
the very best onion grounds in Eose, and it is most thoroughly utilized. 
He left two daughters, lola and Mabel. (His widow, as Mrs. Ellsworth 
Klinck, and family still occupy the place.) The marriages of Artemas 
Osgood's daughters — Caroline, Frank and Emma — have been noticed 
already. Of the other two, Xaunie married Joel Sheffield, the third son of 
James Sheffield, and resides in Eose, while Mary, the youngest, is the wife 
of George Catchpole, well known in Eose. 

The last place to the west in this district is situated a little back from 
the road, and at the earliest accessible date was the home of Lucius Ellin- 



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wood. To him succeeded, as owner, Dr. John Dickson, though I think he 
never lived there. Andrew Bradburn and family were here for several 
years. For a long time this was the home of James Armstrong, who now 
lives near Seelye's corners. One fact alone should make Mr. Armstrong's 
occupancy noteworthy, since he was the first to introduce the culture of 
mint in this neighborhood. Mr. Armstrong's children, several of them, 
grew here to manhood and womanhood, and from this passed out to 
homes of their own. George lives in Lawrence, Mass.; Edgar we have 
noted before; Duane lives in Rhode Island {'Sow Brockton, Mass.); his 
twin brother, DeWitt, in the southwest (Now Creete, Colorado); James is 
at home (Syracuse); Alice married Harvey Ferris, but died several years 
since ; Ella is the wife of Ephraim Wilson, Jr. , and lives in the Valley ; 
Carrie and Minnie are still at home. Mr. Armstrong came to this town from 
Lewis county and is a relative of the Armstrongs, of Butler. His wife, a 
Miss Sweet, is a member of the famous Ehode Island family of Sweets, 
bone setters. Xo more sturdy and straightforward man ever came into the 
neighborhood. To Mr. Armstrong succeeded Harlan P. Wilson and he 
still resides here. His wife was Miss Carrie Snow, daughter of Alonzo 
Snow, from Chenango county. Their children are Harriet, Charles, Frank 
and Lewis, (Mrs. Wilson has since died). 

Again returning to the Corners we will go south, and first, at our right 
and near the cross roads, we shall find the home of James Armstrong, whose 
family we have already described. His house is a new one, taking the 
X>lace of the first building erected here, which was destroyed by fire in 1882. 
This farm was first Eaton's, then Aaron Shepard's, from whom it 
passed to his son-in-law, Thaddeus Collins, 2nd. He sold it to his son, 
Josephus, who built the house early in war times as a convenience for his 
hired man. I think its first occupant was Charles Rice, long a resident of 
the Butler part of the district, being a son of Jonathan Rice. He married 
Mary Holcomb, also of the Butler portion of No. 7. Her father, those who 
used to go to school-house meetings will long remember for his fervent 
prayers and eloquent exi^eriences. After Rice came John Crisler, a brother- 
in-law of Mr. Collins, his wife being Ruth Livermore from Oneida Co. 
She is also a sister of Mrs. John B. Roe. He now lives on the Butler side, 
on the old McKoon place. Wesley Livermore, Mrs. Collins' brother, came 
next, remaining several years. He now resides near Clyde, following the 
trade of a carpenter. The place was finally sold to Chauncey Darling, who 
built a barn and cleared much of the forest back of the house. His 
successor was Mr. Armstrong, as already stated. 

Over the elevation to the southward, we shall find the burial ground, 
but this, with the school-houses of the district, we shall reserve for the 
closing article. A little more than half a mile from the corners, on the 
west side of the road, is the house of Stephen Kellogg. This marks the 



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former abode of the first settler, Aaron Shepard. He was a native of Xew 
Hartford, Conn., and there married Polly, daughter of Dr. John Wade, 
who afterward moved to Paris, Oneida Co. His trade was that of a black- 
smith and traces of his Connecticut shop can still be found. Catching the 
western fever in ISll, he came to this new country and took up two sec- 
tions of land lying on both sides of the road, though there was no road 
then. This laud extended from the western liorder of S. Kellogg's farm to 
very near the first north and south road in Butler. Just under the hill, 
back of Mr. Kellogg's house and a little to the south, is a spring of pure, 
cold water, and here he built his log house, preparatory to bringing out 
his wife and two girls. His boy he had already laid to rest in the old Town 
Hill burying ground in New Hartford. Moving in those days was no 
trivial matter, for the transit was made with an ox team. This was done in 
the following year, 1812. What a long, tedious journey : staying, when 
possible, over night in houses ; when not possible, camping. A brother, 
Seth, accompanied him and settled on the farm now occupied by Isaac 
Lockwood, in Butler. Deacon Shepard, as Aaron S. was usually called, 
and his wife had peculiarities that will be long retained in memory by all 
who knew them. He early built a shop, the first in town, and was the 
horseshoer of the vicinity. I think pieces of forge slag can still be picked 
up near the road, marking the site of his anvil. When he built his farm 
barn he hewed planks out of logs to make the floors. These planks, show- 
ing the gashes of the scoring axe, still serve their original purpose in Mr. 
Kellogg's great barn. In fact, the barn itself is much as it was when built, 
seventy years ago, though it has been moved from its first location. As 
a deacon it was necessary for him to maintain great strictness in demeanor, 
and he was anxious to secure corresponding staidness from all about him ; 
but he had in his family ouce, a lad who tried his deacon's soul in no 
ordinary manner. This young man would parody " Watts " in this heath- 
enish way : 

" When I can shoot my rifle clear 

To pigeons in the skies, 
I'll bid farewell to pork and beans 

And live on pigeon pies." 

How distressing this must have been to the good old man, to whom the 
hymn book was second in sacreduess to the Bible only! However, it was 
left to the deacon to devise a way of keeping " Young Dud." out of mis- 
chief during church time, that for originality has no ecjual. Taking the lad 
to the shop, he would back him up to the vise and screw the slack of his 
trowsers therein, taking care to jiroperly secure his hands. I am afraid 
the boy's ruminations were not on things sacred while he thus stood out the 
deacon's hours of worship. The old gentleman was one of the original 
members of the Presbyterian Church in Rose, and long stood high in its 



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councils. He first joined the old church located at Port Bay, but which, 
finally, became the Presbyterian Church of Huron. He died in 1839. If 
the deacon was peculiar, his wife was more so. The boys of the neighbor- 
hood, to this day, when forced to the monotonous employment of pulling 
daisies, will say : " There wouldn't be any of these things here if it weren't 
for old Granny Shepard." Legend has it that mindful of her surroundings 
In the Nutmeg State, she thought she must have daisies about her in her 
new home to make it look natural, and so carried with her a quantity of 
seed, which she sowed broadcast, and behold the result. Tansy yet grows 
luxuriantly in the corner of the dooryard, marking the place where she 
planted the first seed, seventy years ago. Once when her husband was 
away from home, she directed the hired man to fell a large quantity of tim- 
ber through the swamp or swale, in order that she might have an unob- 
structed view, from her pantry window, of the hill-side beyond. How 
strangely history repeats itself, for I find that the first pastor, Jonathan 
Marsh, of the church in New Hartford, Conn., directed his parishioners to 
do just the same thing, that he might, from his parsonage, see his church. 
The reputation of being the best cook in the neighborhood, I have never 
heard disputed, and she trained up her own girls and those who lived with 
her to be equally deserving of praise. She was determined and perti- 
nacious in her ways, and when a Mormon missionary sat up all night en- 
deavoring to convert the deacon, she sat up, too, and effectually counter- 
acted the poison of the enemy. She was liable to spells of hypochondria, 
when she would send word to her daughter, Mrs. Collins, opposite, that 
Mrs. C. must come right over, as she was going to die right away. Likely 
as not, Mrs. C, who knew her mother perfectly, would reply : " I can't, for 
I am going visiting.'" Just as quickly as the messenger could return, 
would go the message : " Just wait a few minutes and I'll go with you." 
This story is told with much glee by old residents : A certain man in the 
neighborhood was much disliked by nearly everybody — possibly feared. 
The old lady shared the common feeling, and seeing him coming one day, 
she had her screams all ready ; but contrary to exjiectation he walked di- 
rectly by. Not to be cheated out of her fright, she sallied forth, shouting: 
"Zekiel, Zekiel, don't you come in here, I am afraid of you." After a few 
years, the old log house was given up, and the family moved into the first 
framed building in the district, constructed before 1820. The town road 
had been located, and it lay, or ran, some rods east of the house by the 
side of the spring. There are still living in Eose and Butler very aged 
people who can recall childhood memories of this pioneer cabin. The new 
house was a marvel of comfort and elegance for those days. Painted red, 
it stood with its gable facing the road. The interior was divided into a 
front room with a wide fireplace, a stairway leading aloft, a pantry and a 
bedroom on the north side, with a back parlor. The chamber was unfln- 



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islied. An immense chimuey, while necessary in its day, took up about 
one- quarter the space of the entire house. In this shape the building con- 
tinued till 1855, when it was re-covered, an addition put on the north side 
and the entire interior altered. The frame is the one put together by the 
deacon. This change was effected by Eev. A. M. Eoe and his wife, a 
grand-daughter of the first builder, and then the owner of the place. Just 
south and a little back of the red house stood an uupainted building, some 
years younger than its more irretentions neighbor. This was built by Mr. 
Shepard as a residence for his daughter, Harriet, who married Thaddeus 
Collins, 2nd, of Eose. After their leaving it, it formed a very convenient 
house for tenants, till its demolition in 1855. The orchard just south of 
the house and fast going to decay, was the result of seed sown by Mr. Shep- 
ard many years ago. The marriages of the two daughters of this family 
have been noticed already. To the daughter (Polly) of Catharine Seelye the 
place passed on her marriage, and was the home of herself and husband 
till he became a clergyman. Only once afterward did they reside there, 
and then for a single year. (They are the parents of four children, Alfred 
S. of Worcester, Mass.; G. Mortimer of Cincinnati, Ohio ; Charles M. of 
Syracuse; and S. Addie, who, the wife of the late Dr. Lawrence Johnson 
of New York, died March 31, 1893.) It was then sold to Thaddeus Collins, 
who conveyed it to his younger daughter, Harriet, the wife of Stephen 
Kellogg. For nearly thirty years they have lived here, seeing their three 
boys — William, Levern and Frank — grow to manhood. (Will, married, 
lives in Manango, 'So. Dak.; Lavern died in 1S87, and rests in the liurfal 
ground just to the north; while Frank resides in Covell's Dist.) It should 
be added that, after the death of her husband, Mrs. Shepard married Azel 
Dowd of Huron, and lived, till his death, with Watson Dowd, a son. 
Afterward her home was with her daughter, Harriet, till her death, which 
was in 1859. 

Nearly opposite is one of the largest, perhaps the very largest house in 
the district. It is that of Josephus Collins, who inherited from his father, 
Thaddeus. The first knowledge that I have of the house is that it was built 
by Charles Eichards, who. very likely, purchased of Mr. Shepard. At any 
rate, Mr. Eichards lived here for many years, and managed a distillery 
located near the spring in the pasture, some rods east of the house. This 
institution was destroyed by fire before the farm passed out of Eichards' 
possession. Just south of the distillery, in what is now a rich meadow, 
general trainings were had in the " long ago." The juxtaposition of dis- 
tillery and training suggests the motive power so common in those days. 
Near the road was a cider mill, long since dismantled. There were in the 
Eichards family a sou and daughter. The latter was courted and married 
by a Mr. Olmstead, and I have been told that all went to Canada. Thad- 
deus Collins, 2nd, who purchased of Eichards, was born in Vermont, the 



16 EOSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 

son of Thaddeus Collins, one of the early settlers of this town, and at one 
time the owner of much of the site of the village of Eose. The latter died 
in 1828, and is buried iu the Eose burial ground. The family was orig- 
inally from Massachusetts. Thaddeus, 2nd, was born in 1792, and died in 
1865. He was a man who always excited and retained the liveliest esteem 
and regard from all having him in acquaintance. There is now many a man 
who recalls his boyhood's delight over Mr. Collins' recitals of his own youth- 
ful adventures with bears and wolves. To be sure, the boy might seek his 
trundle bed, with hair fairly erect with fear, fancying that the sighing wind 
was the howl of the wolf, and a chair in the corner, possibly, a bear, — he 
always came back to the same old stories with unabated zeal and interest. I 
suppose I have heard him tell a hundred times how he took a stake from a 
sled, standing near the site of the district burial ground, to repel a possi- 
ble attack from wolves whose howls he heard when he was on his way 
home from courting his future wife. A thrill of sadness comes over me 
as I reflect that husband and wife have long slept, side by side, in the in- 
closure over which crept, years ago, the prowling wolf. They are alike 
oblivious to the howl of the ravening beast and the tears of their mourning 
friends. Mrs. Collins survived her lamented husband nearly nine years, 
dying July, 1874. As I recall them, they were almost my ideal pair. I 
cannot forget Mr. Collins' testimony in the old school-house meetings, 
when, rubbing his hands together, he would say : " I feel that it is good to 
be here." Then, too, his wife's recital of her own conversion is vividly 
recalled. They were of the salt of the earth. Perhaps people have gone 
from their doors hungry, but I never knew an instance. An amusing 
anecdote of Mrs. Collins' discernment is told as follows : A short time 
after her husband's death, an aged widower, quite infirm, called on her, 
obviously with the intention of proposing marriage, thinking no doubt 
that her home would be a very comfortable haven in his decrepitude. 
Finally, after beating about the bush, he presented his cause, having abso- 
lutely nothing to offer but his enfeebled self. Mrs. Collins, readily discov- 
ering his object, sent him to the right-about quick, saying that she had 
enough to do to take care of herself without taking in any cripples. Gather- 
ing up his crutches the old gentleman made haste to carry his wares to 
more favorable markets. Four children grew to maturity. The oldest, 
Columbus, married Lovina, daughter of Joel Lee of Eose, and, a farmer, 
lived at different times in Eose, Butler, Huron and Wolcott— dying in the 
latter i^lace several years since from a most distressing accident. Catha- 
rine married Hudson Wood of Butler, and was a most eiScient companion 
to him for many years. She died in 1884. Her second daughter, Frank, 
is the wife of George G. Eoe of Clyde. Josephus married Polly Livermore 
of Oneida county, and has successfully managed his farm during these 
many years. His oldest child, Ida, is the wife of Eev. Wm. Winget of the 



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Free Methodist Church. (Now of Buffalo, N. Y.) Mr. Winget is Huron 
born, just on the confines of Eose, at York settlement. Newton is a prom- 
inent physician in Eochester, while Jimmy, a lad, is yet at home. Harriet, 
the youngest daughter of Thaddeus, has already been mentioned as the 
wife of Stephen Kellogg. 

The next place is that of Henry Chatterson, received from his father, 
Abram, and he inheriting from Betts Chatterson, the first comer of the 
name. This name, in its Dutch purity, was Chadderdon, but Aunt Laney, 
as everybody called her, a sister 'of Abram, determined to charqje it, and 
to compass this transformed the d's in the old family Bible, considerably 
more than a hundred years old, into t's and s's. Early in the century this 
place was the home of Daniel Lounsberry, who, going west, sold to Moses 
Wisner, whose three daughters — Sarah, Elizabeth and Charlotte, it is 
noteworthy, married thi-ee brothers — Austin, Willis and Brewster Eoe, of 
Butler. Wisner sold to Isaac Mills and moved to Penfield, Monroe Co., 
and there died. Mills went west, after selling to Betts Chatterson. This 
family was from Columbia county, and was of great originality of speech. 
Commenting on the Scriptural statement that when the iron is blunt then 
must he put to more strength, Mr. Chatterson said: "Strange that he 
didn't know enough to sharpen the knife.'" He died in 1851, aged eighty- 
seven. "Aunt Laney" (Helen) was one of the most peculiar characters 
of the neighborhood. She had in her girlhood learned how to make 
artificial flowers, and this formed her chief occupation through life, though 
she was joint inheritor with Abram of the farm. When very aged she 
went once to Glenmark to have some wool carded. The mechanic, mean- 
ing no discourtesy, but still desirous of knowing her age, politely asked 
her the question. Her ready reply, snapped out in her quick speech, was : 
"Old enough to mind my own business." For some time before her 
■death she was totally blind, but it was not till near the very end that she 
would grant that her sight was seriously impaired. As she was born in 
1785, she must have been nearly ninety years old at her death. Her 
brother, Abram, was a genius, as all who knew him will concede. How 
he did like to play upon the fife, and into what ecstasies, almost, would he 
pass when, with closed eyes, he would extract those ear-piercing notes 
from the little wood instrument. Old Yankee Doodle himself, at Bunker 
Hill, was not half so enthusiastic. I should like to see the boy of the 
neighborhood who has no pleasant remembrance of "Abe" Chatterson's 
fife playing. He, too, was quick in speech, and his replies were often quite 
out of the general order. Not satisfied with acceding to a request with all 
of his heart, he would, quite likely, generously throw in a piece of his 
liver. Born in 1803, he died in 1881. He was twice married: 1st, to 

, and 2d, to Euth Goffe, the mother of his sons. His 

children were: Sarah, who married Edward Stickles; Josephine, Wm. 



18 EOSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 

Olmstead; Louisa (Mrs. Spencer), John P.; these three live in Greene 
county, and Henry, the older of the boys, who retains the old place. 
During the Rebellion he was for two years in the 27th N. Y. Regiment, 
and then going west served till the end in a Wisconsin regiment. He went 
with Sherman on his march to the sea. Perhaps no Rose boy has a better 
military record. His wife is Addie Waldron, whom he married in 1870. 
(Mrs. Chatterson died Dec. 27, 1891, aged 43 years, leaving two sons, George 
and Louis.) As tenants, for a time, Isaac and Abram Phillips have lived 
in the Chatterson house. They were cousins of Abram C, and came from 
the Hudson river country. Isaac had three sons — William, Horace and 
Frank — all residents of Wolcott. William was postmaster during Presi- 
dent Cleveland's first term. Isaac Phillips died in Wolcott, Xov. 1, 1889, 
in his 75th year. 

Going back a few rods to the west side of the road thirty or more years 
ago, we should have seen a little unpainted building with no land to spare 
about it, yet every inch utilized. Across the road, the wonder of every 
school boy, was a cellar built above ground. The edifice itself was the 
old district school-house, which became a dwelling house when the stone 
building was erected. Let us enter. There is a very small, narrow entry, 
from which, at our left, a door leads into the single room constituting the 
interior. In one corner we shall find a shoemaker's kit, and, pegging 
away most diligently, old " Uncle Tipple," who, with his neat Dutch wife, 
is a dweller here. On a tombstone in the burial ground, I read the follow- 
ing: "Jacob Tipple, died April 1, 1853, aged 66 years." Yet his wife is 
living to-day, the oldest person, I suppose, in the town. On the 30th day 
of last July, she was ninety-nine years old. A few days before, it was my 
pleasure to take her by the hand and to recall the days when I, a small 
boy, thought her a very old woman. She lives west of the Valley with her 
daughter, Mrs. Abram Phillips. Though bowed with the weight of years, 
her mind is clear and her eye bright. I confidently expect to see her pass 
her centennial mile post. How she laughed when I described my boyish 
impression of her home in the old school-house. Those two beds so high 
and smooth; so high that I couldn't see how any one could reach them, 
and if, by any means, he should get to the top, how could he dare to muss 
or rumple such immaculate surfaces. What a pattern of neatness ! Uncle 
Tipple always furnished early cabbage plants for the entire neighborhood. 
The Tipples had two children, Eliza M., to be met later in the Covell 
district as Mrs. Abram Phillips, and Philip, who died many years ago. 
Following Mr. Tipple's death in 1853, his widow went to dwell' with her 
daughter, and the house became the property of Mr. J.B. Roe, who moved 
it away and made of it one of his out- buildings. (In 1887, July 30, many 
friends helped Mrs. Tipple celebrate her centennial at the home of Mrs. 
Phillips, west of the Valley. She survived till July 7, 1888.) 




John B. Roe. Austin M. Roe. 

Austin Roe. 

Alfred S. Roe. George G. Roe. 



EOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 19 

Near at hand, on the south, is the home identified with the name of Roe 
since 1833. Before that time, it was the property of Pendar Marsh, who, 
with his brother, Amos, on the adjoining farm south, came with the 
Shepards from New Hartford, Ct., descendants of that clergyman who 
wanted the forest cut from his home to the church. Pendar Marsh, for a 
time afterward, lived on one of the Briggs places further south, and then, 
with Seth Shepard, went to Michigan. Austin Eoe, a younger brother of 
Daniel Eoe, one of the pioneers of Butler, was born in Connecticut in 1782. 
After the death of his mother, in 1832, he made haste to move his family, 
by the process of river and canal travel, to this, to him, remote region. 
For generations his family had lived on Long Island ; his own birth in 
Connecticut being the result of Revolutionary broils, as his parents were 
driven thence by hostile Tories. Island farming was not encouraging, and 
having discharged his filial duty to his parents, he moved his family of 
wife and six children to Wayne county. Devotedly religious, it was a 
source of great pleasure to his relatives after his death to find his 
exhorter's and local preacher's licenses, extending over quite forty years. 
Hard of hearing for many years, he makes a very pleasant part of one's 
mental picture of the services in the old school-house. The minister in his 
desk was not more prominent than Father Eoe, as he sat in a chair, close 
by, that he might lose no word of the discourse. Then, when the sermon 
was ended, how he commanded the rapt attention of all listeners as he 
recounted God's love to him and his. He died, full of years, in 1864, 
though he would doubtless have lived much longer (his Butler brother 
died at ninety) had he not given way to excessive grief over the death of 
his wife, Sarah, who died the preceding September. She was his own 
cousin, a native of Long Island, and had most faithfully attended him 
along life's pathway. Recently meeting a gentleman on the Pacific coast, 
the writer was much pleased to hear him say that Mrs. Roe came nearer 
the perfect woman than any being he had ever seen. Through years of 
acquaintance, he had never seen her temper in the least ruffled. After 
the marriage of their son, John, they, for a time, lived in a house nearly 
opposite, a little south, standing where Merritt McKoon's house now is. 
Afterward they returned to the old home and formed a part of J. B. Roe's 
family to the end of their lives. When Mr. Roe bought the farm, there 
was upon it the usual log house. This was supplanted, in 1838, by the 
present roomy and pleasant structure. The great butternut trees in front 
of the house, the largest in the vicinity, were set out by Mr. Marsh ; but 
one or two of them have succumbed to the tooth of time. Daniel J., the 
eldest son, married Ann Tillow, a sister of Mrs. Isaac Mills, the neighbors 
opposite, and soon removed to Michigan, where he now lives at the age of 
seventy-four. Catharine married Sheldon R. Overton, for years a near 
neighbor, but who now lives in Wolcott. (Died, 1887.) Eliza married 



20 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD bfKETCHES. 

George Stafford and resides with her daughter, Sarah, in Ohio. (Died, 
1889.) John B. was twice married ; first, to Rosana Sours of Huron. 
Her children were Merwin S. of Syracuse, and George G. of Clyde, (Who 
besides managing his extensive carriage business, has been, since 1890, 
the highly successful postmaster in that village.) His second marriage 
was to Eunicfe Livermore of Oneida county, who survives him and man- 
ages the old farm. Her children are Alice C, the wife of Henry T. Lee of 
Clyde, and Ottie E., the wife of Stephen Soule, also of Clyde. Mr. Roe 
was a model farmer and a most respected member of the community, but 
whose ambition was in excess of his strength, bringing him to his grave at 
the comparatively early age of sixty-six. Rev. Austin M., already stated, 
married Polly C. Seelye, and lives in Fulton, N. Y. The youngest child, 
Fanny, is the wife of Timothy R. Smith of Clyde. Their only surviving 
child is Duke, a teacherof musicin thatplace. Chas. Freeman, born in Rose, 
became a member of Austin Roe's family at an early age, and remained so 
till nearly or quite of age. For the past twenty-four years he has resided in 
Portland, Oregon. He is now cashier of the Oregon R. R. & Navigation Co. 
(For several years the farm has been cultivated by Charles W. Hurter, a 
native of Rose, whose wife is Delilah Barager, born in Canada. Their 
only son, Willie, has marked musical talents. The family, like that of 
Mr. Roe, is connected with the M. E. Church.) 

Across the road a gate opens into a lane separating the Chatterson and 
McKoon farms. This was once a public way ; but to my knowledge there 
never was more than one house upon it. This was the log home of 
" Sammy " Jones, a stone mason by trade, whose deep and lasting pota- 
tions few neighbors can forget. One of his daughters became the second 
wife of Dr. John Dickson. Jones' first wife was, years ago, buried in the 
district cemetery, and when afterward he took to himself another spouse, 
it gave rise to the most noted " horning " that ever took place in the town. 
All the young men of the vicinity united to do the business up in style. 
Before beginning their concert, they called the roll, and no little amuse- 
ment was created at the names to which somebody vociferously responded 
" here." The worthy names of Roe, Collins, Seelye and Kellogg were all 
answered to, although Austin, Thaddeus, George and John little knew the 
liberty that the boys were taking with their titles. Such discord was never 
in town before nor since. Horns, horse fiddles, guns and yells made the 
night dissonant. Finally, the house itself was attacked and entered, the 
frightened inmates fleeing in utter terror. The house was not razed, but 
there was left scarcely one whole piece of crockery on the premises. He 
laughs best who laughs last, and when the " boys " paid the bills engen- 
dered by that night's fixn, their smiles came, as we say, out of the other 
corner of their mouths. Several years ago Mr. Jones went to Michigan to 
live with a son, his farm being merged in the McKoon place. He has since 
died. t 



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The last place in the district is just south of the lane before mentioned. 
Years ago it was owned by Isaac Lounsberry, a brother of Daniel, his 
nearest neighbor on the north. He sold to the Gen. Adams' Land or Canal 
Co., supposed to represent a certain capitalist, Pompelly, by name. It 
then passed into the hands of Austin Eoe, as before noted. He sold it to 
his son-inlaw, S. E. Overton, who retained it for many years. Mr. 
Overton, a native of Long Island, was born in 1800. His children are 
Laura ; Clarissa, the wife of Wm. Finch ; Howard, living in Huron ; Lu- 
cilla, who married and lives on Long Island ; Emily, Harriet and Everett — 
the last two died just as they were leaving childhood behind them. Mr. 
Overton sold to Wm. Sherman, whose power in prayer and love for a horse 
are well remembered. His wife was Clarissa (Thompson) Ellinwood, 
born in the Butler part of the district. An adopted son, E. Wallace 
Blackman, went to school in the old stone school-house with the rest of 
us, and, going into the army, like a patriotic boy as he was, died in 1862. 
Mr. Sherman sold his farm and went with his family to Michigan, and there 
died. Another son, Henry, enlisted from the west, and died in the service. 
There were other children. Wm. Haney of Boonville, Oneida county, was 
the purchaser of the farm. He was a Scotch Irishman, of great presence 
and power, and is still, in Seneca Falls, an important factor in all that 
goes on about him. When he came to the town he had two sons, Albert 
and Victor. Two daughters — Emma and Clara — were born here. Death, 
however, removed Victor and Clara to the other land. As his teacher for 
a season, I can safely say that no brighter, better boy ever responded to a 
teacher's efforts than the curly-headed lad whose body has long slumbered 
in the cemetery on the hillside in Boonville. After the death of his chil- 
dren, the place ceased to be attractive to the surviving members, and he, 
accordingly, sold to Hudson Wood and moved to Seneca Falls, where 
Albert is now in business. A niece, Anna, was the first wife of Merwin S. 
Eoe. Mr. Wood did not live on the place, but his son-in-law, Leonard, 
managed it for a time. He soon sold the place to Isaac Lockwood and 
Merritt McKoon, in whose possession it now is. Shortly after their pur- 
chase the house was destroyed by fire, making the second conflagration in 
the history of the section. The present edifice was soon afterward con- 
structed, and in this Mr. and Mrs. McKoon lived till they moved to their 
present residence at the corners. (George, oldest son of the late Isaac 
Lockwood, married Lina Chappel of Butler, and for several years has 
occupied this place. They have children, Ambrose, Maud E. and John C. ) 

The history of no American community is complete till we have the 
story of its schools. I cannot find the time when there was no school in 
the vicinity. District Xo. 7 was once a part of a school patronizing section, 
covering what is now given up to five or six districts. The first building 
was a log one, standing on or near the site of the present edifice at 



22 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 

Stewart's corners. An interesting souvenir of this first school-house is 
yet in existence in the shape of a great iron used over the fireplace to 
support the chimney. It has for more than sixty years performed the 
same office in the old Seelye mansion. In this building the Seelyes, 
Sheparda, Smiths and Ellinwoods obtained all they had in the way of 
education. School records of those days would be hard to find, and I am 
certain of only a few names of teachers. There were Eli Ward, Messrs. 
Knapp and Sherwood. One of the latest was George Salmon, who after- 
ward married Lorinda Welles. He subsequently became a very prominent 
business man of Fulton, Oswego Co. He died a few years ago, a man 
much respected in the community. His second or third wife was a 
Leavenworth, of Wolcott. I have often thought, as I saw him walk into 
church, that his looks and manner were not unlike those of the great 
Washington. In time, as settlers became more numerous, a division of 
the district was necessary, and, about 1830, the old Tipple house was built 
and opened. Here followed the usual routine of school life, under the care 
of masters in winter and mistresses in summer, till about 1840. In this 
edifice, among other teachers, was, in 1833-'4, one Squires, who had a 
strange way of drying the boots and shoes of his pupils who came into 
school with wet feet. Taking the foot in his hand he would, with a ruler, 
give it a terrible beating. Any one who has ever tried this method of 
getting transmitted force can imagine what the torture was. He had a 
queer way of grinning as he made or mended a quill pen, and many a 
luckless youngster, thinking the master was laughing, would laugh, too. 
Alas, what a mistake ! The boy who laughed, soon had occasion to weep. 
In 1834-'5, George Seelye taught, and they do say that he prayed but once 
a week. Doubtless he thought it best to give his time exclusively to 
instruction. Darius Clark, a sou of "Priest" Clark, and a brother of 
Col. Emmons Clark, of the N. Y. 7th Regiment, was one of the early peda- 
gogues. The story is told that he pronounced the word "yelp" to 
William Marsh— Amos' oldest son, who went to California in 1849— to be 
spelled. The boy did not understand what was wanted and nearly 
suffocated himself in his efforts to yelp. The more he tried the 
more the master shouted "yelp," till the boy nearly fainted. The master 
thought it funny, but the pupils were indignant. Another teacher was 
Sloan Cooley. The stone building came in 1840, and the first teacher was 
Arvine Peck. Among other masters, in the long succession of years, were 
A. M. Roe, George Stafford, Martin Blynn, Marvin Wilbur and many, 
many others. Mr. Stafford, who married Eliza Roe, could scare a boy out 
of his wits, nearly, by one loud exclamation. For continued whispering 
he would threaten to cut off a boy's tongue, and would produce block and 
knife, to the lad's excessive horror. But he kept a good school. I have 
heard grown boys say that Martin Blynn, afterward major in the 10th 



EOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 23 

N. Y. Cavalry, was the best teacher they ever had. "There was no use 
talking, we had to learn any way." When, in 1865, the writer taught the 
fichool, he found, out of something more than forty pupils, that thirty-five 
were, in one way or another, related to him. This illustrates pretty well 
the consanguined character of the district. 

It was near the centennial year that the old stone house gave place to the 
present wooden edifice. The stones were tumbled into the space enclosed 
and the new building rose on the ruins. The serrated benches and desks 
with the recessed windows, deeply scarred with well-known initials, are in 
the irrevocable i^ast. 

While articles like these have little to do with the religious proclivi- 
ties of the people, I might state that, almost without exception, for many 
years, the residents have been faithful church goers ; communicants of the 
Baptist and Methodist Churches. It was long customary to have union 
afternoon services in the school-house. Till comparatively recently, there 
was not an individual in the district who did not trace his ancestry, directly 
or indirectly, to New England sources. In well deported lives, I think, 
these people have well sustained the long accorded New England reputa- 
tion of honesty, sobriety and piety. 

We have followed the early and late inhabitants of this locality through 
many years, but the paths of obscurity, as well as those of glory, " lead but 
to the grave." Where sleep the forefathers ? The first burial place in 
the neighborhood was near Stewart's corners. Probably fifty persons 
were buried there, among whom was Jerusha, mother of Deacon Shepard, 
who died soon after his removing from Connecticut. However, in 
the twenties, the present cemetery, south of the corners, was opened, and 
has been added to once since, a small portion of land being taken in on the 
east side. Here are buried all the forefathers of the hamlet save John B. 
Eoe, who lies in the cemetery north of the Valley. 

"Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, 
Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe hath broke. 

How jocund did they drive their teams afield ; 
How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke." 

There is very little of the famous elegy that will not apply to the enclos- 
ure. Each year marks a new grave ; some pilgrimage ended, a new life 
begun. And so it will be for years to come. When the present has 
become "the old time," the tale will still be told. The first interment was 
that of a son of John Springer. This is the inscription : Died, December 
2, 1828, James P. Springer, aged 8 years, 9 months and 18 days. The 
second and third to enter this fiual home were Catharine, wife of George 
Seelye, who died in 1829, and her infant son. Mr. Seelye himself, fifty-six 
years afterward, has .just been laid by her side, and the scene is ended. 
^ 'All the world's a stage," says the chief of writers, "They have their 



24 EOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 

entrances and their exits." Here sleep, side by side, so many who 
together fought life's battles, and now rest from their labors. " Under the 
dew and the sunshine," indifferent alike to summer's heat and winter's 
cold, they await the glorious resiiiTeetion promised all the children of God. 
"Afterlife's fitful dream, they sleep well." Requiescant in pace. 



THE BUTLER PART OF NO. 7. 

Aug. 11— Sep. 1, 1887. 

The eastward limit of the Rose portion of the district was reached when 
we wrote of the property of Dudley Wade and of certain log houses, in 
which various parties, as Brewster, Saxton and others, had lived. Just 
beyond the town line and at the foot of the hill is a small house, which has 
had numerous occupants. The first owner of whom we have any trace was 
Jesse Woodruff, who sold to William Olmstead — brother of Mrs. John 
Wade, of Rose — who, with others of the family, came from Connecticut. 
He is supposed to have built the house. He sold to William Sherman, 
whose name we find in connection with many farms in the near regions of 
Rose and Butler. He was a son of Elias D. Sherman, one of the most 
conspicuous of the early pioneers of Rose. Mr. S. built the barn on the 
hill, intending to move up the house, but instead the barn went to the 
house. After him came Daniel Burgess, a son-in-law of Philo Saxton, who 
had himself occupied the house. He, Burgess, had two daughters, Alzina 
and Phtebe — named thus, I suppose, from his two wives, both Saxtons. 
Selling his place to Dudley Wade, he moved to Red Creek, and now lives 
near Westbury. The house then became the home of several tenants, 
prominent among whom was John Pitcher, an Englishman, who finally 
moved to Allegany Co., and there died in 1887. Mr. Wade sold to John 
E. Jones, more familiarly known among his townsmen as " Erv " Jones. 
He was from Saratoga Co., and married Permelia, daughter of Benjamin 
Kellogg, of Butler. His children were Harriet, who married George Voor- 
hees, and died several years since. Henry married Julia Toles, of Rose, 
and now resides in Wolcott. Mary is the wife of George Dowd, of Huron. 
Isaac married Eliza Lovejoy, and lives on the lime kiln farm, near Butler. 
Adelbert married Lillie Weller and lives in Huron. Mr. Jones was a good 
citizen and made the most out of his farm. He dug out the spring, on the 
opposite side of the road, and conducted water from it to his house and 
barn. Finding the farm too small for himself and sons, he sold, as he 
. supposed, to Mortimer Calkins, of Chenango Co., but in reality to Dudley 
Wade. Mr. J. always thought this a sharp trick on the part of his 
neighbor, to whom he would have made a considerably higher price. But 



EOSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 25 

buyer and seller are alike beyond the world's bargainings, for Jones, after 
buying a farm in the northern part of the Stewart district, died in 1877, 
and was buried with his former neighbors in the Collins burying ground. 
After holding the farm for a short time, Mr. Wade passed it along to his 
eldest son, Joseph, who, with his newly wedded wife, Emma Osgood, began 
housekeeping here. The young people of the neighborhood enjoyed rare 
sport in the long winter evenings, when they gathered round "Joe's" 
hospitable fireside and helped him and his wife kill time. Is it possible 
that the youngsters of to-day have half as much fun as we did f What a 
pity that there was no " chiel " among them taking notes in those semi- 
remote days. No one who passed a winter's round of home festivities can 
ever regard them with aught but the most intense pleasure. But " Joe " 
wearied of farming finally, and he sold to Cornelius Marsh, a native of the 
Town district of Eose. Mr. Marsh's wife was the Widow Leaton, a 
daughter of Mr. Whitehead, an industrious Englishman, well known in 
the vicinity. Her daughter, Alice, became the wife of Geo. S. Seelye, and 
is now in Dakota. Marsh made many improvements in the buildings and 
worked hard for many years. He finally sold the farm back to J. S. Wade 
and now lives west of the Valley. 

Ascending the hill, we turn to the north, and the first farm at our right 
B that of Elias Taylor. The original proprietor was Jesse Woodruff, who, 
vith his brother, Charles, was joint proprietor of a large four hundred 
atre farm. The brothers were sons of Lambert Woodruff, who came from 
th», east in 1806 to Wolcott. Jesse sold off his acres in sections, and finally, 
having built the house, burned some years ago, moved to Newark. This 
par\, what we shall call the Taylor farm, he sold to N. W. Tompkins, who, 
a native of Waterbury, Conn., had moved with his parents to Oneida 
countv, and thence, in his early manhood, came to this place. After 
leayinr the farm, he went to Wolcott, where he engaged in milling and 
mercaitile business for many years. Eetiring from these he went to a fine 
farm stuth of Wolcott. Next came E. Y. Munson, who, after several 
years ol occupancy, sold to Abram Moore and went to Wolcott. After 
Moore, tie farm was owned jointly by T. J. Lampson and Mr. Andrus. 
The storj is told of one of the owners, about this time, that becoming 
badly chafed, he asked his hired man what was good for him, and was 
answered ' turpentine." He went to the house, presumably to apply the 
remedy. S>nietime afterward the amateur physician followed and found 
his employevsitting in a tub of water, and thus doing his best to allay the 
torments intt which the medicine had thrown him. James Jenkins, a 
Methodist mitister, followed, and to him succeeded Jonathan Rice, who 
held the placefor a number of years, and here reared a large family of 
children. Mr.»{icecame originally from Massachusetts, and now, in his 
old age, is a res^ent of Huron at Sours' Mills. His oldest son, S. Decatur, 



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who used to be one of the big boys in the old school-house, married Lydia 
Taylor and runs the grist mill at Sours' Mills. Lavina married Jackson 
Terbush and lives in Wolcott. George married Emma Bump and is in 
Peterboro, Madison Co. Charles married Mary Holcomb and lives near 
Watertown. Hattie is the wife of Ethan Kellogg, and they, too, are at 
Sours' Mills. Jared wedded Frances, another daughter of Harrison Hol- 
comb, and is a miller in Mexico, Oswego Co. Frank, as was stated in the 
Eose articles, was killed in childhood. It is an interesting item that all 
the above sons, and at least one son-in-law, are millers. Mr. Eice sold to 
Crandall Loveless, who, in time, sold to the present proprietor, Mr. 
Taylor, who came from near South Butler. His wife is Martha, daughter 
of Joel Bishop. After his moving upon the farm, his house, the one so 
long standing, was burned some years ago, and then his bai-n followed in 
like manner. New ones have taken the place of the old. Mr. Taylor's 
daughter, Vesta, is the wife of Washington Loveless, of Butler, while 
another, Eliza, is at home. Before leaving this farm, it will be in place to 
state that among its many owners was one who liked very much a drink of 
whisky, but he scorned to take his liquor without paying for it. So, 
getting a small keg of the ardent, he, with a sympathetic neighbor, 
managed to open a bar, and with a single sixpence the two would buy out 
the establishment. To keep up the illusion — for no true American likes 
to take his liqiaor in any other way than standing — one would saunter u? 
to the improvised bar, plank his sixpence and get his drink. Then, ly 
the way of fair turn about, he would go behind the bar and the late tencter 
would become purchaser. Thus each one had the pleasui-e of buying fud 
selling, of drinking at a bar and of getting as drunk as a lord, with no geat 
expenditure of ready money. How often this sort of play was had depraent 
doth not state, but it is claimed that the game was never over til the 
supply was exhausted. 

Nearly opposite is the home of Patrick Burke ; but older peope will 
recall it as the residence for many years of Widcw Kellogg. Tie farm 
itself is a part of the Woodruff purchase, and after having been Jeld by 
N. W. Tompkins, was for a time in Wm. Sherman's ijossession From 
him it passed to Columbus Collins, who built the house. C. <■ Collins 
was the son of Thaddeus, of the Eose part of the district, and very soon 
after marrying Lovina, daughter of Joel Lee, 1st, of Eose, caae here to 
live. Though his children were not born here, it may be st.'ted that at 
his death in Wolcott, he left May E., a teacher in the Wlcott public 
school, and Julian, who now lives in Eochester. (Torrington Ct.) C. C.'s 
widow is in Wolcott. Perry Jones then held the place for awhile. Jones 
is a son of the " Sammy" Jones mentioned in a former leter. His wife 
was Drusilla Saxton, daughter of Philo. They now 11^3 in Michigan. 
Charles Kellogg, his successor, was a long time resident 'f the neighbor- 



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hood, a son of Benjamin K. His wife was Mairetta, daughter of Wm. 
McKoon, and a native of the same school district. Mr. Kellogg died in the 
winter of '53-4. For years Mrs. K. held the place, and by the aid of her 
sons managed the farm. She was a most industrious woman, and in her 
life time must have made many hundred pairs of binders' mittens, a pur- 
suit in which, I think, she never had a rival in the near vicinity. Of her 
three children, Ethan B., 2nd, married Hattie Rice, as already stated. In 
1862 he enlisted in Company H of the 9th Heavy Artillery, but was dis- 
charged therefrom on account of disability. John C. married Mary Fisher 
of Wolcott, and afterward Eftie Terbush, and now lives in Rose. Lucy's 
first husband was John Reynolds of Butler; her second, J. Byron Smith, 
now of Wolcott. Several years since, the whole family moved east of 
Wolcott, where Mrs. Kellogg in 1879 passed to her reward. Jonathan 
Rice was the next owner, then Walter Maroney, who sold to Peter Yan- 
Buren, who, an ex-soldier in the Rebellion, belonged to an old Butler 
family. He is now in Lincoln, Xeb. Cornelius Marsh was then for a 
time the owner, then Joseph Wade, who sold to the present occupant. 
Patrick Burke and his wife, Catharine Dunn, are from Waterford, Ireland. 
Their children are Wm., Edward, John, James, Ella (Mrs. James Whalen 
of Galen) and Anna. The town has no more industrious people than this 
family. 

Everybody, far and near, knows " Mart " Saxtou. His home is next, 
and the house is reached just before taking another turn toward the inner 
part of the town. Again we are on the old Woodruff land, though Saxton 
began his farm by a purchase of one acre from Mrs. Kellogg. He built a 
house and barn, and has added to his estate by purchases from the Benja- 
'min property, north, and the Wade place, south. His first wife was 
Rebecca Marsh of Rose, who died in 1877. She left two daughters, Rosa 
A. (Mrs. Edward Klinck) and Mary E. Mr. Marsh's second wife was, 
before her first marriage, Sarah A. Leonard of Butler. " Mart's " father's 
family was a large one. By his first wife, Philo Saxton had three children, 
, one of whom, Albert, married Jane Knajip, and was one of the first owners 
of the first farm east. He afterward moved to Wolcott and died there. 
By his second wife, Brasilia Parish, he had eleven children, all of whom 
grew up. Drusilla married Perry Jones, as before stated, and now lives 
in Quincy, Mich. Two daughters, Phoebe and Alzina, were successively 
wives of Daniel Burgess. Lucy Jane married Samuel Pomeroy of South 
Butler, and is the mother of Mrs. Abel Wing of Butler Center. Mr. Sax- 
ton died in 1859, aged 77, and his wife followed in 1866, at the age of 71. 
This family came to Butler from Otsego county, where Mr. Saxton's first 
wife had died. He had a good reputation as an industrious man. His wife 
was large in stature, and the quality of tallness she gave to some, at least, 
of her children. In my childhood, I thought " Mart " Saxtou the tallest 



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man I had ever seen. Either he has shortened, or my notions of longitudi- 
nal extension have grown. Father and mother sleep in the neighborhood 
cemetery. (Martin Saxton died 1891.) 

The furthest point eastward in this district is reached when we turn to 
our right and come to the farm now owned by Dr. T. S. Fish, of Wolcott. 
As with the other places thus far described, in this vicinity, this farm 
was once the property of Jesse Woodruff. There has been a bewildering 
array of owners, of whom perhaps Harrison Holcomb held it longest, and 
for this reason it is often called the Holcomb place. Albert Saxton bought 
of Woodruff, and built a shanty on the north side of the road and about 
thirty rods from it. In 1850, or thereabouts, he sold to Charles Wright, 
son of Jacob Wright, well known in Butler, who built a small house south 
of the highway, and also put up a barn on the north side. This barn, 
some years ago, was destroyed by fire. Harrison Holcomb came from 
Galen in 1854, and built the house now standing. Mr. H. enjoyed the 
respect and esteem of his neighbors, and his children were among the other 
happy ones that sought knowledge in the old stone school-house. His 
daughter, Elizabeth, became the wife of Charles Tegg, and lives at Bay 
Bridge. Mary and Frances have been mentioned as wives of Charles and 
Jared Rice, respectively. Hattie married Mr. Johnson and resides in 
Kirkville. The only son, William H., married away from this neighbor- 
hood. The subsequent owners in order have been Ransom Loveless, C. 
Baker, Loveless a second time, George Talcott, who built the barn now on 
the place, E. Snyder and Dr. Fish. Not very long ago, while digging a 
well on the premises, the earth caved in and buried a boy who was at the 
bottom. Fortunately, some boards, in the caving, so placed themselves 
as to somewhat protect him. His frantic cries for help could be heard, ■ 
but no one would endanger his own life to save that of the lad, until his 
father, who had been summoned from Wolcott, appeared. "Johnny" 
had been admonished to say his prayers, for a rescue was deemed impos- 
sible ; but the father threw himself into the well, and prompted by a 
father's love, regardless of personal peril, worked till his boy was drawn 
from his living tomb, but the rescuer's hands were torn and bloody, the 
nails worn far down into the quick, through his frantic efforts to save his 
child. 

We must now return to the road where we turned to the left, or north, 
after leaving the Joseph Wade place. People forty years of age will re- 
member a log house which nearly faced the road, perhaps a little south of 
it. This house was the home of Ebenezer Pierce, who built it about 1835 
and lived in it until his death, in 1854. His second wife was the widow 
of Benjamin Kellogg. Mr. Pierce had served in the Revolutionary army. 
He is reported to have run away from his home in Massachusetts, at the 
age of sixteen, to enlist. Many reminiscences are told of his soldier days. 



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It is said that he was detached by Gen. Washington for service near him, 
and it wa.s the old man's boast that he had repeatedly shaved the father of 
his country. His first wife was Mary Ballard, also Massachusetts born. 
After the war he was for a time a boatman on the Hudson river. He had 
three children: Dr. Jeremiah B., late of Lyons ; Elizabeth, wife of Judge 
E. Eoot of Buffalo ; and Matilda, who became the wife of Simeon Barrett, 
now one of the oldest residents of Rose. She died twenty-four years ago. 
Subsequent to Mr. Pierce's death, the house was occupied by Gamaliel 
Sampson, who, from Cattaraugus county, had married Harriet, oldest 
daughter of Benjamin Kellogg, and his own first cousin. Of their six chil- 
dren, Sally mari-ied Darius Lovejoy and resides in Eose ; Betsey married 
Harlow Peck, and is a resident of Butler, north of Spencer's corners ; 
Warren married Rhoda Myers and went to Illinois. Alsifine is the wife 
of William Calkins of Savannah. A. Putnam married Lucy, daughter of 
Charles Sherman of Eose, and lives in Galeu, while the youngest son, 
Ethan B., married .l<:dna Burch and lives at Whisky Hill. (Sodus, 1S93.) 
Mr. Sampson, who died in 1870, was a soldier of the War of 1812, and his 
widow, past four score years, draws a pension from the government. Her 
home is with her son, Ethan B. (She died Apr. 2.5, 1891. Had she lived till 
the 30th, her age would have been 87 years.) The old log house was torn 
away by Wm. B. Kellogg. The farm itself was purchased from Fellows & 
Mcl^ab by Benjamin Kellogg, who came to these parts from Salem, Mass. 
His first log house was just east of the present Colvin house, and here he 
lived until his death, in 1829. Ethan B., his son, succeeded to the owner- 
ship of the farm and built the present frame structure. Benjamin K., 
whose wife was PameliaTrask, had eight children — four sons and as many 
daughters. His oldest son, William, born in 1800, married Eebecca Brew- 
ster, is yet living in Cattaraugus county, N. Y. Ethan B. married Matilda 
Allen and resided for many years east of Clyde, and there died, in 1881. 
(Mrs. Kellogg died Apr. 16, 1889, aged 75 years.) They are buried in the 
Collins neighborhood, as is also their son, Lewis, who had married Emma 
Livermore, niece of Mrs. John B. Eoe. Their daughter, Eebecca, became 
Mrs. Ketchum, and Maria, Mrs. Peckham. Their son, Henry, married a 
Pomeroy of South Butler, and lives on the Clyde farm. Charles B. has 
already been mentioned, as have also Mrs. Sampson and Mrs. Jones. Mrs. 
Experience Brewster, afterward Mrs. Ogram, was named in the Eose let- 
ters. This leaves only Betsey and John. At the former's marriage to 
Willard Peck, there followed one of those long-to-be-remembered horning 
scrapes for which this vicinity was, in years agone, famous. In the midst 
of the uproar one of the participants, Eichard Garratt, now of Eose. was 
wounded by the bursting of a gun. He had to be carried home and the 
fun came to a premature end. Mr. Peck moved to Clyde, and on a visit to 
Michigan several years ago was killed by the falling of a tree. John Kel- 



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logg married Betsey Westcott of a prominent Butler family. Following 
Ethan B. KelLogg on the old homestead came Willard Peek and then Wm. 
B. Kellogg, John's oldest son, who here began his married life. He sold 
to Oliver Colvin, the present owner. Mr. Colvin is a native of Kihgsbary, 
Washington county, and his wife, who is Jane, nee Seelye, was born in 
Moreau, Saratoga county. She is an own cousin of the late George and 
Delos Seelye. Mr. Colvin' s brother, Dr. Nathan, was for many years a 
noted physician in Clyde. After several removals, he, Oliver, settled 
upon a farm south of Clyde, where he resided till 1855, when he was struck 
with a migrating fever, which prompted him to sell and go to Virginia. 
This trip he made with his family in almost old-fashioned emigrant style, 
in that he drove there, though they did not camp when night overtook 
them, but sought the shelter of some hospitable roof. He located in Spott- 
sylvania county, where his youngest child, Clara Virginia, was born. His 
place was two miles from Fredericksburg, and, had he remained there, his 
home would have been in the very theatre of the late war. As it was, life in 
the south was distasteful to himself and all his family, so, after a three years' 
trial, he returned and soon bought where we now find him. Mr. and Mrs. 
Colvin have reared a very large family, only one member of which has died, 
and she, Cornelia, a wife and mother. As Mrs. Stratton, she had lived 
some years in California before her death. The two older sons, Thomas 
and Augustus, have long resided in the Golden State. (Augustus died 
March 3, 1892, aged 56 years, in Jacksonville, Oregon.) Sidney, who was 
a lieutenant in the 9th Heavy Artillery, after the war was over married 
Electa Powers and went to the Pacific coast. He now lives at Lake View, 
Oregon. Elizabeth is the wife of Clark Sanders of Waterloo. Narcissa is 
well known in Eose as the wife of Eugene Hickok. Asahel, a good soldier in 
the 111 th jST. Y . , lost an arm at Petersburg. He married Annette, daughter 
of Daniel Soper, and lives in Wolcott. Pitt, now a druggist in Rochester, 
has been twice married— first to Mary Ann LaDue of Wolcott, and second 
to Alice Seelye of Brockport. Frank married Giles M. Winchell of Wol- 
cott, who now manages the farm. Clara is the wife of Harvey L. Dickin- 
son, once of Rose, now of Idaho, though just at present, for his health, he 
is in Salt Lake City. (Later in Washington.) For fifteen or twenty years 
Mr. Colvin made cider for the people in Rose and Butler, averaging, he 
tells me, one thousand barrels a year. Xo resident of the district ever had 
a merrier nature, or drew more enjoyment from life as it passed. His 
amiable wife has kept him excellent company in all this journey. Time 
would not suffice to tell all his pranks, but one that he and Mrs. C. often 
laugh over was his bringing home, soon after they were married, a: small 
owl, which he handed to her, saying: "Here, Jane, is a bird I have brought 
you for supper." "It's a nice one," says she ; "a partridge, I think." 
So she proceeded to fricassee the same, much to Mr. Colvin' s delight. It 



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required long boiling, and even when cooked, Mrs. Colvin remarked the 
exceeding blueness of the meat, which she could not induce her liege lord 
to taste, and before she had eaten much he enlightened her as to the char- 
acter of the bird she had been stewing. Query — Is this incident the origin 
of people claiming, when blue and used up, to feel like a " biled owl 1 " 
In early life Mr. Colvin rode on the packet that formed a part of the tri- 
umphal progress through the state, on the opening of the Erie canal. 
From Lockport to Troy, he was one of those who accompanied Gov. Clin- 
ton on his way from Lake Erie to tide water. He states that cannon were 
stationed every ten miles to signal the starting of the boats. When the 
firing had reached the Hudson, the return salute was fired back to Buffalo, 
the time employed being four hours. Few of Mr. Colvin's acquaintances 
can fail to tell of his quaintness in repartee, and I am reminded of the reply 
he made to old Mrs. S., who, always anxious about what didn't concern 
her, once said : " La, Mr. Colvin! why, where have you been? " "To the 
Valley." " What have you been there for? " "To see a pig shaved with 
a hand saw." Exit old lady in a hurry. As the shadows lengthen, these 
two old people watch the sunset of life, seeing in the past more of pleasure 
than sorrow, and complacently contemplating the life beyond which awaits 
us all. (Mr. Colvin died Oct. 9, 1S92.) (Mr. Winchell is of a Hannibal 
family, and is an excellent farmer. To him and his wife have been born 
two children, Fred and Laura.) 

Toward the south, on the west side of the road, we find a house fast 
going to ruin. It is many years since the owner dwelt in it, and during 
this time a long line of tenants has moved in and out. The first owner 
whom' I can find was Joseph Brewster, whose wife was a sister of Uncle 
"Sammy" Jones, and he sold to Samuel Thompson. The latter's wife 
was Abigail Wainwright. Mr. T. died in 1852 and Mrs. T. in 1851. Both 
are buried in the district cemetery. They had six children, who married 
as follows : Clarissa, William EUinwood, who lived but a short time and 
she afterward married William Sherman ; Cordelia married Charles 
Warren ; more than thirty years ago George Thompson went to sea and no 
trace of him has ever been had. What unwritten tragedy this long silence 
covers, we can only conjecture. He was a young man of stalwart frame 
and great physical strength. Eliza married Horace Peck ; Edwin, noted 
years ago as a musician at country dances, married Emeline Cobb. He is 
now living with a second wife in Watkins, N. Y.; Camilla, a maiden lady, 
in whose name the property stands, lives in Wolcott. Edwin and Eliza 
Thompson were married on the same evening by Elder Ladd, of the Valley. 
Then followed the very worst horning spree that ever this region had 
known up to that time. The boys were mounted and the line extended 
from the Colvin farm to Thompson's. The clergyman begged to be let out, 
that he might get away from the din and noise. Among the dwellers in 



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this house, after the death of Mr. Thompson, may be named Charles 
Warren, George Rice, Jackson Terbush, Daniel Soper, Ensign Wade, Giles 
M. Winchell, John Meehan, George Lasher, Murrill Burch and, lastly, 
William DeVoe. The first owner, Brewster, finally died in Clyde. He 
was doubtless from Saratoga county. Patrick Burke now leases the farm. 

Crossing the road and going a few rods southward, we find the house of 
William B. Kellogg. The farm is a part of his Grandfather Benjamin's 
purchase from Fellows and McNab. John Kellogg bought it in 1837, and 
here lived until his death in 1876. His wife has already been mentioned 
as Betsey Westcott. To the neighborhood she was known as ' ' Aunt 
Betsey," and when she made a visit she was always welcome ; then came 
merry times. Her prevailing characteristic of jolly good nature she 
imparted in no small degree to all her children. Full of years she died, 
after a brief illness, in the fall of 1886. Her oldest child, Almira, married 
Alonzo Hubbard, of Butler, and died at the early age of twenty-eight. 
William B. married, in 1853, Eliza Tyler, and lives upon the old place ; 
his only son, John, married Anna Valentine and lives in Clyde. Stephen 
B. married, in 1851, Harriet Collins and lives on the old Shepard farm in 
Eose. Permilla became, in 1843, the wife of E. Willard Sherman, one of 
Charles Sherman's sons, and resides in Clyde. Paulina died at the age of 
sixteen, in 1851. Allie married, in 1877, Duane LaDue and lives at 
Warner's Station, Onondaga Co. Wlien John Kellogg bought this farm it 
was a dense wilderness. He gave seven dollars an acre for it. Clearing 
up the land he built a log house, and in it all his children, save Allie, were 
born. He afterward built the present house and barns. In the possession 
of the Kellogg family from the beginning, let us leave the farm with the 
wish that it may remain with the same family hi i^^'rpetuo. (Now the 
property and residence of Patrick Burke and family. ) 

The very last farm to be noted in this school district is that across the 
road, just to the south. Here, early in the century, 1817, came Wm. 
McKoon and his helpmeet, Lucy Cole. Mr. McKoon was born in Ehode 
Island ; but when an infant, in 1794, his parents came to Columbia, Her- 
kimer county. Thence he made the trip with ox team to Wayne county. 
When he reached what was to be his future home, he had just fifty cents. 
With this he purchased an axe and a half bushel of Indian meal. He was 
a true pioneer, and brought his farm up from the very beginning of primi- 
tive forest. His log house stood some rods back of the present house, and 
after his building of the framed structure, it passed through the usual 
degradations of barn and pig pen to final dissolution. To grind his corn, 
he cut down a tree and hollowing out the stump, had a samp mortar of 
the most substantial character. He had but three children. Mairettahas 
already been noted as the wife of Charles Kellogg. Jairus married Rachel 
A. Merritt of Savannah. Ehoba married Elihu Spencer of Butler, and 



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moved to Appleton, Wisconsin. Wm. McKoon i.s one of the most note- 
worthy characters who, in the early days, settled in these parts. Always 
a man of sterling integrity, he became a minister of the Methodist denomi- 
nation, and for several years preached under the direction of the presiding 
elder. At the time when anti- slavery excitement ran high, he left the old 
church for the Wesleyans, but finally attiliated with the Disciples, in 
whose communion he died in 1870. Mr. McKoon had a remarkable 
ancestry, being sixth in descent from Eoger Williams, and twelfth from 
Martin Luther. For some years previous to his death, he had lived in South 
Butler ; but his body was brought to sleep with his kindred and friends in 
the Collins cemetery. Many years ago, he planted five Lombardy poplars 
on the road-side south of his residence. They can be seen, located as they 
are on the top of a ridge, from points many miles away. There is scarcely 
a hill-top within a radius of ten miles whence these five mighty fingers, 
pointing heavenward, may not be seen. , I have noted trees of this variety 
in all parts of this Union, but my eyes never rest on the long tapering form 
of a Lombardy poplar without having my thoughts revert to this row on 
the hill, and I think how proudly they stood out between me and the 
morning sun, and when the western sun was hastening to its setting, how 
glorious were these trees gilded with golden light. No one fortunate 
enough to have been born in sight of these trees, will ever forget them, 
nor cease to be grateful to Wm. McKoon for planting them. Jairus 
McKoon succeeded his father upon the farm and here reared his family of 
four children. Merritt G. married L. Estelle Seelye, and lives in the old 
Geo. Seelye homestead ; Hattie, who married Isaac Lockwood, died in 
November, 1885, leaving five children, Lida, Ada, M. Burt, Irene and 
Hattie ; Charles married Jennie Terry and is now in Michigan ; Ida became 
the wife of Jarit Wickwire, and lives in Rose. About 1865 Jairus McKoon 
sold to his sister. Widow Kellogg, who thus came back to the home of her 
childhood. Mr. McKoon moved to the next farm southward, and there 
died in September, 1885. His widow is there now with her .son-in-law, 
Isaac Lockwood. (Mr. L. died December 19, 1887, being supervisor of 
Butler at the time.) Mrs. K. sold to Josephus Collins, and he to his 
brother-in-law, John Crisler, who now holds the place. His wife is Ruth, 
nie Llverraore. Their only daughter, Mamie, is now a pupil in the State 
Normal School at Oswego. By his first wife, Mr. C. had Cora, wife of 
Daniel Harper of Rose ; Nelson, who married Mary Stone, and Evander. 
(Mr. C. died January 17, 1892, aged 68 years. Mamie was married June 
29, 1893, to Melville Terwilliger of Walden, N. Y. Nelson lives in 
Wolcott, and Evander in Rose. The place is now occupied by Chauncey 
Darling and family.) 



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Thus we have traversed the district, riinuing the record through fully 
seventy years, and there yet remains only to mention some of the peculiari- 
ties of the school which the children of this vicinity constituted. All 
were farmers' progeny, and all except the families of the Dudley Wade 
and George Seelye houses brought their dinners in pail or basket, and he 
who has never generated an appetite, sitting on the hard benches of a 
country school-house, can have no idea of the flavor of that same dinner 
now so carefully packed away by mother's hands in that two-quart pail. 
Many a time during the forenoon his eyes stray from book to shelf, where 
his pail with scores of others reposes. At recess he treats himself to an 
apple lunch, but when noon comes, how he throws himself outside of that 
nice bread and butter, the hard boiled egg, the small piece of cold meat, 
and then, reserved to the very last, how that triangularly shaped bit of 
apple pie disappears down his throat. Then putting the pail back upon 
the shelf, he drinks long and deep from the old wooden pail standing on a 
bracket just between the end of the desk and the door. The dipper is 
rusty, but he doesn't care. He is not at all fastidious. All drink from 
the same dish, and then, with a whoop and a bound, they are out of the 
door and ready for play. What fun the youngsters had at recess! Sum- 
mer afforded excellent facilities for playing horse, and many a nailless, 
bleeding toe attested the speed and carelessness of the gait. This sport 
was for the boys of course ; but the girls were not idle. Sometimes, in 
spells of unwonted gallantry, the boys would bring boards, rails and 
brush, to build for their sisters strange and fantastic houses, in which the 
sweet damsels would arrange large quantities of broken dishes which they 
had brought from home. Future generations will wonder if once there 
was a pottery in the vicinity, and all this went well for the girls until their 
brothers, returning to their native barbarism, would make a fierce incur- 
sion and level to the dust the result of many hours of labor. A steep 
bank with friable soil afforded the children of both sexes excellent oppor- 
tunity for grist mills, a chance which they wei-e not slow to embrace, and 
with sticks thrust through the soil they sawed away, sending down a 
stream of sand flour, until Uncle Thad. Collins' farm seemed in danger of 
running into the road. Winter brought a merry season. The boys still 
played horse, but they loved better to divide into rival parties and to 
snow ball, claiming for their respective sides those who were hit by the 
pasty mass. Then, too, they threw balls over the school-house, accom- 
panied by a stereotyped cry of "Ally, ally over," and this the school- 
master within would hear during the moments of recess or noon. Over 
the fence, in Dudley Wade's field, they would mark out paths for "fox 
and geese," and here the boys and girls could play together. Further 
still down the lot was a low place where a little skating and more sliding 
were afforded, and clear over the hill, close by the fence, were several elm 



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trees, whose slippery bark afforded material for hours of ruiuiuatiou. Occa- 
sionally, some daring boys would steal away from the school-house to get 
tamarack gum from Sherman's swamp, where now I suppose so many 
onions are raised, and on their return "would stand, like Trojans, the 
threshings which the irate master was sure to give. The gum they passed 
around among the girls, in whose eyes these truants were heroes. By way 
of variety, when the school-master had gone to dinner, the boys — and it is 
strange how near the average boy-nature lies to the savage state — would 
set upon a certain necessary building and tip it completely over. Then 
getting it in position, they would roll it over and over, accompanying this 
mischief with yells that would have done credit to their brother Comanches 
in western wilds. If, at this time, Uncle Dudley Wade or Uncle Delos 
Seelye should happen along, then was the fun fairly bewildering, for, added 
to the devastation, was the impotent rage of the wrathful tax-payer. 
Divided as the district is into two nearly equal portions, it was a common 
thing for the Butler boys to array themselves against those of Rose. Then 
Greek met Greek and fierce was the onslaught. At the close of school, 
how dinner pails were banged against offending heads ! How missiles of 
all descriptions flew, while timorous sisters stood around and tearfully 
begged their irate brothers to " stop and come home." Strange that with 
so much fighting there were so few hurt. Occasionally, self-appointed 
champions would undertake to settle deep-seated, long-standing wrongs, 
and the tales of the encounter long stirred the blood of the boyish listener. 
There were few boys who did not have their turn at the foe ; but perhaps 
no battle was fiercer than that which the Butler Hector, J. R., waged with 
the Rose Achilles, G. G. R. Just what the provocation was, the careful 
historian has not chronicled, but of the fact of the battle there is no doubt. 
Long and fierce was the fray — sanguine, too, for noses and faces bore 
witness to the earnestness of the warriors. Their respective parties, or 
shall I say armies f were ranged in admiring, not to say awe-struck, 
silence. The air was full of hair and active combatants. It was said that 
it was impossible to tell east from west, so close and vigorous was the 
fray. Unfortunately, either the return of the teacher, or the calling of 
school, put an end to this terrible contest, and I can not record a victory 
for either side. So, in the school history, it must go down as a drawn 
battle. All this was in the days of the stone school-house. It is possible 
that in later days, since the advent of the wooden building, many of the 
asperities and hardnesses of the olden time have disappeared with the 
edifice in which they generated. Let us hope so. 



36 BOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 

SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 5. 

Sept. 8— Oct. 13, 1SS7. 

This district, located to the south and west of No. 7, is known in home 
parlance as the Town district, from the families of that name that have 
from the verj' first settlements lived in the neighborhood. It lies mainly 
along a north and south road, running at the foot and on the west side of 
the long hill just south of the old Delos Seel ye farm. As we turn into 
this road, we soon find a small house with barn near at hand. Here lives 
Stephen Chapin, who, several years ago, came from Huron, bought a few 
acres of the Egbert Soper place, and put up these buildings. He also ran 
a blacksmith shop for some years. He has a family of five daughters. 
(Mr. C.'s wife was an Eldridge of Butler. Their daughters are Hattie 
[Mrs. Gardner Harper], Mary, Irene, Blanche and Kittle.) 

Still further along, fairly nestling under the hill, is an abode, which, 
with its predecessors^ runs back nearly or quite fifty years. In a 
former series, reference was made to certain houses built upon the very 
summit of the high eminence. One of them, that of Ehodes, slid, as it 
were, down to the site of the old Soper house — the other, Mr. Gould's as 
gracefully descended on the other side and rested where James Benjamin 
now resides. Following Mr. G., who went down to the Clyde road, came 
a Mr. Swift, who sold to Sheldon R. Overton, son-in-law of Austin Eoe. 
Here several of Mr. O.'s children, as Laura and Clarissa, were born. Mr. 
Overton, who, we may remark in passing, died in April last in Wolcott, 
sold to Isaac Curtis, a Long Islander. His wife, a Soper, was a second 
cousin of Mr. Overton. Here Mr. Curtis died, and Egbert Soper, a brother 
of his wife, succeeded. Mrs. Curtis, with her three children, returned to 
Long Island. Mr. Soper, as a dweller on the Pierce place, we have 
already mentioned. Once more we find Wm. Sherman in possession, and 
then Milton Town followed. He was a son of Silas Town, and married 
Clarinda, daughter of Lyman Lee. They began here their married life, 
and here their only son, Lewis, was born. Mr. Town, some years since, 
sold his place to its present owner and moved north to the Philetus Cham- 
berlain farm. From there he moved to the Valley, and, in 1882, died. He 
is buried in what is called the Ellinwood burial ground on the road to the 
village. His widow and son reside at Rose Valley. James Benjamin, who 
is one of the family so long identified with the south part of the town, 
although his father, Henry, did not move here, married Mary Comstock, 
and has two children. Grant and Grace, both at home. Mr. Benjamin was 
a good soldier in the 111th. (Mrs. Benjamin died in 1887.) 

The next farm has buildings upon both sides of the road, and the farm 
itself is divided by the road. The house, that of Charles Deady, is on the 



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west side. To this place came, maoj- years siuce, John Qiiackeuboss 
Deady, from Cambridge, Washington Co. He first located on the Lackey 
farm toward Clyde, but, buying out a claim here, he made his payment to 
the Land Ofifice, and so may rank as an original proprietor. His wife was 
Susan Waters, who, at the age of two years, had been brought by her 
father, James, from Maryland. He died near AUoway, town of Lyons. 
Mr. Deady reared a large family of children, one of whom, John Henry, 
met a violent death, one of the few recorded in this quiet neighborhood. 
His team ran away on the stee-p hillside and be was thrown out, receiving 
injuries so severe that he lived only a few moments. No incident in the 
history of the district or vicinity ever gave a more terrible shock, and still, 
old people warn younger ones to be careful, by recounting this untimely 
death. His oldest son, Thomas, married Esther A. Garratt, and died in 
1847, aged twenty-seven years. Elizabeth became Mrs. Van Dusen, and 
died in Alton in 1886. James, living west of the Valley, took for his wife 
Carrie Swift, of the family that once lived on the farm to the northward. 
Margaret was named in the former letters as the wife of Egbert Soper and 
lives in Westbury. Mary married Henry Decker and lives in Stewart's 
district. Charles holds the homestead and has been twice nmrried. His 
first wife was Henrietta Swart, of Detroit, Mich.; his second, Louise 
Guthrie. He has four children — one by his first and three by his second 
wife. (June Deady is Mrs. Wm. Barrett in Montana; Edith, Mrs. Edward 
Martin of Eose ; Estelle, Mrs. Merritt Bennett of Wolcott ; Grover C. is the 
boy at home.) The youngest member of the family is William, and the 
resident in Eose who does not know "Bill" Deady must be entirely devoid 
of enterprise. For many years he resided in Eose Valley ; but recently he 
has taken up his abode in Lyons— his business, that of a speculator. A 
summer home at Charles' Point affords him and his a pleasant respite from 
harvest heat. His wife is Jeannette Jeffers, who has made him the happy 
father of three boys and an equal number of girls. John Q. Deady was a 
man of great energy and industry. This was evident in his twice paying 
for his farm. He was one of the unfortunate men who committed them- 
selves to the Clyde Bank, founded on the farms of the adjoining towns, and 
which went to the wall. Men who had been considered independent found 
themselves poor. Instead of repining and sinking under his misfortune, 
he manfully went to woik, and before he died beheld his acres again free 
from incumbrance. (Well known in this part of Eose, Mr. Frank Sager, 
a native of Albany county, has been for several years an aid to the farmers 
on this street. His latest home is with Mr. James Benjamin.) 

All the farms along this road are divided by it. They run eastward just 
over the ridge of the hill and to the west, well up to the summit of the 
range of hills whose westward slope takes us down to the Clyde and Valley 
road. The next place is the one that Silas Town reclaimed from the 



38 EOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 

wilderness. Asa and Silas Town came to this section from Paris, Oneida 
Co., but they were natives of Winchendon, Worcester Co., Mass. They 
were accompanied by their sister, Lavinia, who many years ago returned 
to Oneida county. She was the last survivor of a family of eleven children, 
reaching the great age of more than ninety-three years at death. The least 
age attained by any one of the children was fifty-nine, while the average 
age of all at death was beyond seventy-six. They were of the very 
straightest sect of the Puritans, and from the father, Absalom, down, 
nearly all the children had Bible names. An ancestor of the Towns had 
lived in Salem, Mass., and there in the troublous days of witchcraft excite- 
ment two of his sisters were hanged as witches. Another was accused and 
escaped only by the allaying of the delusion which had so long possessed 
the people. Mr. Town's children tell me that he often told them stories of 
witchery, and when we reflect that his mother, who died at the age of one 
hundred and six, was born in 1747, we see that her childhood was within 
sixty years of the excitement itself, and eye-witnesses of the horrors of 
Gallows Hill must have narrated to her the infamies of Cotton Mather's 
day. By these long lives of two individuals, we bridge over the interval 
of nearly two hundred years. The brothers, Asa and Silas, took up their 
land, one hundred and fifty acres, from Fellows and McNab, and cleared 
away the forest. This must have been about 1817. Silas married Polly 
Seelye, a daughter of Lewis Seelye, and niece of Joseph Seelye, in whose 
family she had lived many years. Their children were Emily, who married 
William Vandereof, of the Valley, where, with her son, Clarence E., she 
still lives. Her husband died in 1885. Milton, as we have already seen, 
married Clariuda Lee. Sarah married first John Vandereof, brother of 
William. He died in 1861. Since then she has married Asa Plumb and 
lives in Macedon. Her only son, Elvin, lives iuEose on the Joel Lee farm- 
Mary married Joel Lee and lives on the Lyman Lee place in Stewart's dis- 
trict. Lewis, who had engaged in the mercantile business in Clyde, died 
greatly regretted, in 1853, at the early age of twenty-three. Lucy married 
George Howland, of Rose. He died in 1869. Eugene married Ellen 
Norris, of Xew York, and succeeded his father upon the farm, the latter 
dying in 1873, aged eighty-seven. His wife died in 1882, at the age of 
eighty. Eugene followed his father, in ISSi, and his widow, who subse- 
quently married Ellery Davis, now lives on the place. Her two children 
by Eugene Town are May Evelina and Norris. (May E. is Mrs. Wm. 
Graham of Galen.) 

Asa Town built the next house, using cobble stones as his material, and 
though there are several buildings in the town thus constructed, I never 
could see that any stones were missing. Certainly, hoeing corn time 
revealed all the boys cared to turn over. Mr. Town's wife was Hannah 
Stacey, whom he went down "Dtica way to find. She died in Chippewa 



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Falls, Wis., in 1873, at the home of her eldest son, Henry M. He had mar- 
ried Malina Chamberlain, sister of Hamlin T. Chamberlain, from Monroe 
county, who, by way of reprisal, had wedded Mary Almanda, the only 
daughter of Asa and Hannah Town. Another son, David H., married 
Cornelia Valentine, sister of Jackson V., at the Valley, and lives at 
Strong's Prairie, Wis. These two brothers had placed their log houses 
near a spring, and the houses themselves were separated by scarcely more 
than a walk— being in all respects, like their occupants, brotherly. One 
enthusiastic narrator says, " I shall never forget the sweet flag [near the 
spring, nor the sweet gooseberries in the garden. There were no yards 
nor gardens like them in these parts." In time, the first houses disap- 
peared, and then came Asa's stone house and Silas's framed structure, 
which he placed further north than the old one. Asa died in 1848, and 
lies over the eastern hill in the Collins burial ground. Before saying 
" good-bye" to this family, I must echo the oft repeated praises of "Aunt 
Polly Town." No one can remember when she was not a remarkably 
handsome woman, and her beauty of face was fully equaled by that of her 
character. She kept her house a model of neatness, and trained her 
family in the most exemplary manner. Skilled in all the necessary accom- 
plishments for house-keeping in those early days, .she taught her children 
to be virtuous and industrious, and when her girls went out to other 
homes, they carried with them, in addition to great quantities of linen 
woven by their mother, the ineffaceable impression of her womanly 
example. "Aunt Hannah," Asa's wife, went from the neighborhood 
years since to dwell in the west with her sons, but she left an excellent 
memory of intelligence and worth. Some people, in these too practical 
days, affect to sneer at the Puritans and Puritanical ways. I, for one, 
could wish that their tribe might indefinitely increase. After the decease 
of Asa Town, his widow managed the farm for a time, and then sold to 
William Desmond, who came to this neighborhood from west of the Valley, 
though his name proclaims Lim from one of Ireland's proudest families 
His first wife was Lucy Ann Way, who, in a i3eriod of temporary insanity, 
committed suicide, leaving one daughter, Agnes, who now lives in Clyde. 
Her husband is Alexander Weeks. Mr. Desmond's second wife is Lucy 
Toles, from the Lovejoy neighborhood. They have three sons — Albert E., 
Truman T. and Charles H. (December 28, 1892, Albert was married to 
Aurilla Transne, daughter of the Rose M. E. minister. They are at the 
old home.) 

We next come to the corner and to the school-house, where the children 
of the district are taught. The jiresent pretty, white building is a great 
improvement on its red predecessor, which was the first one built after 
this part of the town was set off from the eastern district. The old red 
house was not beautiful, but it was useful. Like all other similar edifices 



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in these parts, it had its weekly and Sunday use. Here preaching was 
often heard, and at times Sunday schools were maintained. The middle- 
aged citizens, and older ones too, could tell of the days when the spelling 
school was a delightful occasion, and the singing school also. What 
facilities for seeing the girls home, and what life-long intimacies were here 
begun ! To enumerate all the teachers who have held sway here were a 
task too great ; but suffice it to say that almost every amateur user of the 
birchen rod in these parts, at one time or another, has here taught the 
"young idea how to shoot." 

Across the way is the house of Richard Yedder. The place has changed 
hands often. The earliest occupant whom I can recall, was the Mr. 
Stickles, who was Delos Seelye's favorite farm laborer, though doubtless 
the house long antedated him. Henry Decker lived here for a time, as 
did Major Wm. Snyder. Very likely the original founder was Hiram 
Van Dusen, who had married John Deady's daughter. (Mrs. Vedder, 
born in Saratoga county, died, 1S93. Her first husband was a Leaird. 
Her daughter, Ida E., is the wife of Wm. H. Sowls ; a son, Charles Leaird, 
though better known as Vedder, now lives here with the Sowls family. 
The Sowls children are Charles E. and Marion E. The parents are 
natives of Saratoga county.) 

Across what was once a lively stream, which we shall call Marsh creek, 
is a small estate of nineteen acres, on which, nearly or quite thirty years 
ago, George Calm, an industrious Englishman, built a small house. His 
wife was Mary Smart, sister of the brothers Smart, who lived just south 
of him. Mrs. Calm's parents, William and Mary, lived with them, and 
here the father died. The mother survived to a great age, dying December 
30, 1864, aged 82 years. A familiar sight, in the early sixties, was that 
afforded by Mr. iand Mrs. Calm riding comfortably on the only seat in their 
wagon, while mother, sitting upon a stool or board, hung on behind: but 
the old lady asked no odds of teams and vehicles. She made nothing of 
stepping off at a lively pace to the Valley or Clyde, and returning in a 
way that would discourage many a pedestrian. She bore good evidence to 
the virtue of her English training. A Lee intervenes, then Josephus 
Collins held and sold to a German, John Wyke, who was noted herea- 
bouts for the fervor of his religious manifestations. The story has never 
been contradicted that when John was married, and reached that part of 
the ceremony where the minister prays, John and his frau knelt also, but, 
being led away by the words of the clergyman, he forgot all about the 
business of the hour, thought it was a prayer meeting and prayed on him- 
self, till the gentleman of the cloth had to inform him that the marriage 
was not yet over, and he must attend to one thing at a time. I am fearful 
that another yarn is somewhat apocryphal, but I give it as I received it. 
It is to the effect that some years subsequently, he was not pleased with 



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the character of his better half's prayer ; and she refusiug to stop on any 
milder plea, instead of iJinging a stove lid at her, ci la Jerry Cruncher, he 
incontinently stopped her mouth with a hot potato. John had always 
claimed that the Lord told him to marry Margaret Nusbickel. Whether 
the hot potato incident altered his opinion or not I cauuot state. After 
Wyke came Maurice Cleary, the present possessor. (Mr. C. is from Cork, 
Ireland; his wife, Mary Cavanaugh. Their children are Mary, a 
graduate of Geneseo Xormal School, teacher in Long Island City ; K"ora, a 
nurse in the Canandaigua Insane Asylum ; Julia, at home ; John, educated 
in Clyde, a teacher; Xeliie, also a teacher and educated in Clyde; Michael 
and Edward, at home ; William, died at the age of five years in 1880.) 

We next find, west of the highwaj', several substantial barns, but the 
house is wanting. It, a log one, once stood opposite, and was constructed 
by Martin Van Buren. The only trace of Van B. in the vicinity now, is a 
child's grave in the cemetery. It bears the dale of 1831. He, with his 
brother-in-law, Henry Ferris, had taken up an extensive possession in the 
immediate vicinity. After him came James T. Vandereof, about whom 
more will be written when we reach the Stewart neighborhood. Ananias 
Smith then bought this portion of the farm, though his home was on the 
Andrus place, further east. The next possessors were the brothers, 
William and Newton Smart, who, after a few years' ownership, sold to 
John Finch and moved to Illinois. John Finch was a son of Jeremiah 
Finch, about whom there will be more anon, and he lived here till he built 
his brick house, twenty-six years ago. His wife was Deiademie Chapin of 
Wolcott, but she had lived for some years in the home of Thaddeus Collins. 
Their children are Harriet, who married Abram Vanderburg, now in 
Selma, Kansas ; Loania, married Warren Drury of Wolcott ; Mary, died 
in 1859, aged fifteen; Frank, married Mary Jordan and has three daughters 
and one son. He is the present owner of the farm, succeeding his father, 
who died in 1871, aged nearly fifty-nine. His mother's home is here. 
Mr. Finch was one of the most energetic and progressive of the second 
generation of the farmers who, early in the century, sought this farming 
region. The next house, standing well back from the road and, long since, 
painted red was John Finch's early home, and is now a tenant house 
belonging to the farm. In addition to managing his farm, Mr. Finch is 
an extensive dealer in garden seeds. ( He now has a family of four girls 
and one son.) 

Nearly opposite, and on the corner of the private way, leading up the 
hill, forty or more years ago, Henry Snyder bought eight acres of land of 
the Finches and Deadys and put up a log house. Here his numerous 
children — four girls and seven boys — were born and reared. Mr. S. was 
originally from the Mohawk valley and settled first in Conquest. His 
wife was Margaret Eose, from Schoharie county. She is now living in 



42 EOSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 

Sidney, Neb., with her daughter, Margaret, while Mr. S. died years ago 
and is buried in Conquest. His oldest son, William, was a valiant and 
eificient officer during the war, coming home with the rank of major in the 
10th Cavalry ; his wife is Melissa, daughter of William Benjamin. They 
now reside in Clyde. The place passed into his hands at the death of his 
father. He sold to Manly Benjamin, and finally it came into the possession 
of William Desmond. There is not a vestige of the house standing, only a 
few apple trees serving as a reminder of earlier days. The other children 
reared here are Harvey, who married Julia Blood, and is a resident of the 
Valley; he also was in the army; Charity C, as Mrs. Ruger, lives in 
Cortland; Mary J. married an Olmstead and dwells in Seneca Falls; 
Wilbur, as will be seen, later was drowned ; Charles H. married after 
going to Michigan ; John W. and Azro C. both migrated to Missouri and 
married there ; Amariah is in Nebraska. His wife is Eliza Moore of 
Conquest. Margaret Ann, as Mrs. Worden, lives near Sidney, Neb. When 
families like this crowded the old school-house, there must have been lively 
times. Modern customs will render school-houses almost useless in some 
localities yet, and through their lack of material, districts will have to be 
merged. Outside of the village of Rose, probably there is not a school in 
the town as large as it was twenty-five years ago. 

Pursuing our way up the hill, we come to a building that enjoys one of 
the most sightly outlooks in the town ; but our road terminates here. To 
the northeast of the house and nearer the foot of the hill, I think there 
must be a spring hard by, there was once a log house, in which lived a 
Mr. Burgess. Afterward Pendar Marsh lived here, and subsequently built 
the house near the top of the hill, though the house has been ascribed to 
one Crampton. Philetus Chamberlain also lived here, but whether he 
followed Marsh or not I cannot state. Col. Briggs, also Millard Olmstead, 
were owners before Major Wm. Snyder, who held it for a time, from whom 
it passed to James Benjamin, who rents it to various tenants. A private 
way leads over the hill to a place owned by Wm. Matthews, where once 
lived David Benjamin and possibly others. 

Coming back to our north and south road and going further south, we 
come to what was the south part of the Van Buren- Ferris purchase. Here 
Ferris built a log house, and after some years of occupancj- sold to a 
Mr. Van Amburg and moved to Cayuga county. Following him came 
Lorenzo Dow Thomas. He was the youngest son of Charles Thomas, one 
of the very first comers, and was familiarly known in town as Dow Thomas. 
His wife was Hepsie Andrews. It is more than thirty years since he sold 
to George Aurand and moved to Illinois. After Aurand, Harry Shepard 
and his wife, ]Mary Barrett, lived here. They had one daughter, Libbie, 
who died when her parents lived south of the Valley, one of the prettiest, 
merriest girls ever born in this town, noted for its beautiful maidens. Mr. 



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and Mrs. S. never recovered from their loss, and died several years ago. 
In his business as a buyer and seller of cattle, " Hack " Shepard had a 
■wide circle of acquaintance, and everywhere was known as one of the 
jolliest men who ever drove a herd. He belonged to the large family of 
Shepards who live in Galen and on the Clyde road. Asa Traver followed, 
and after him Wm. Jordan was the next possessor to live on the 
farm. He came from near Lyons and still remains. Since his holding the 
place he has had the misfortune to lose his house by fire, but this has been 
rebuilt. His family, a large one, consists of twelve children. One daughter, 
as we have seen, is the wife of Frank Finch, next neighbor toward the 
north. (The place now belongs to Timothy Donovan, who has lived for 
several years just over the town line in Galen. He is from Waterford, 
Ireland, his wife, Mary Daly. Their children are John and Maurice, who 
have contributed no little to their father's success. A daughter, Mary, 
died in April, ISfll, in her sixteenth year. Mr. D. has effectually demon- 
strated that farming can be made to pay, even in Wayne Co. Before 1894 
appears, Mr. D. expects to move to this Eose farm. The town line co- 
incides with the line of fences next south of this home. ) 

Turning to our right and going toward the west, we come to the early 
home of the Benjamins. Two brothers, Eiley and William, came from 
Westmoreland, Oneida Co., and took up land from the company, though 
Eiley came first and sold to William. I understand that Eiley returned to 
his former home. William's wife was Nancy Shaver, and both, after long 
lives of usefulness, sleep in the White School-house burial ground on the 
Clyde road. They were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 
the Valley. Eiley B. built the first log house and William finally replaced 
it with the cobble stone house, now standing. His children, reared on 
this site, were nine in number. Maria died young. Henry, who was in 
the army, has been twice married. His first wife was a Loveless. His 
home is in Butler. Emeline, also in Butler, married a Calkins. Manly, 
who followed his father on the home farm, married Jennie Stewart and 
resides in Clyde. David, a soldier during the Eebellion, married Mary 
McDougal and lives in the district. Melissa is the wife of Major William 
Snyder. William, with his wife, Mary Weeks, lives south of Clyde. 
Eugene died unmarried at the age of twenty-one. Jerome married a 
Gerald, from Monroe county, and lives in San Francisco. After several 
changes, between Major Snyder and Manly B., the place passed to the 
ownership of William Desmond, who now holds a monopoly on cobble 
stone houses in this district — a good place for one of Mr. D.'s boys to 
locate when he takes unto himself a helpmeet. (Trueman T. Desmond, 
having married Mary Shaver of North Eose, has acted on the suggestion 
and is here installed. The parents are rejoicing over a baby girl, born in 
July, 1893.) 



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Opposite is another homestead, long associated with the name of 
Benjamin. Years ago Nelson Benjamin bought of one Decatur, who was 
possibly the first settler at this point. Mr. B.'s first wife was a Pressor, 
who bore him two children — George, who married Mary Loveless, of 
Butler, and Louise, who, as Mrs. Caywood, lives in Butler. Nelson, who 
sold to his brother, Alanson, now resides, an aged man, in Clyde. 
Alanson's pet foible was Scriptural argument, and he would leave work 
or play any day for his favorite diversion. On his death, Manly, his 
nephew, purchased. Then came William Benjamin, and, finally, Abner 
Garlic, who had once lived on the Wright farm further east. Alanson's 
widow married a Gordon, and is now dead. (As tenant, Jason Cleveland 
occupies.) 

Our western limit is reached when we climb another hill and enter the 
home of William Finch. The Finches have been identified with this part 
of the town for many years, and the children went to school in the old 
wooden building of the Seelye neighborhood long before the old red house 
of the Town district. Jeremiah Finch, with his good wife, Eunice King, 
came from Saratoga county. He first took up the farm now held by Eugene 
Hickok, west of the Valley, but, owing to some informality, lost it. He 
then came to this place, where he abode until his death, in 1859, at the age 
of seventy-five. His wife survived him until 1864, when she died at the 
age of eighty. They are buried in the Seelye district. Their family of 
children numbered no less than twelve. Their daughters became Mapely 
Willoughby, of Clyde; Tansey Ann Hastings, who went west; Charity 
Scott, of Clyde ; Sophia Hadley, of Michigan ; Jane McCamly, of Lyons ; 
Mary Lape, of Clyde, and Eleanor and Lois, who married in succession 
John Seaman, of Cortland. Jeremiah, 2d, married a Wilcox and went to 
Michigan; John has already been named; David married Ann Brush, of 
Buffalo, and lives on the Bliss farm in Galen ; William, who retains the 
old home, married Clarissa Overton, daughter of Sheldon E., and has two 
children living — Eva J. and Elvin H. (Eva J. Finch is the wife of Mr. 
Geo. E. Brisbin, formerly of No. Eose, but now with his father-in-law, and 
Elviu H. is in the coal business in Clyde. They have one child, James 
William.) The house opposite is Mr. Finch's tenant house, but the farm 
was once owned separately. Perhaps Elias Sherman was the earliest pro- 
prietor. The house was built, I think, by Mr. Eeynolds. Successive 
owners, or at least occupants, were Joseph Preston, Mr. Wykoff and Henry 
Decker. 

We must now retrace our steps to the road leading eastward from the 
school-house. A few rods along on the south side is a house many years 
old and standing on a farm that has had many owners. There may have 
been earlier ones, but I have no trace of any before Elon B. Andrus, 
who was a Connecticut acquaintance of Deacon Aaron Shepard's family. 



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His wife was a Connecticut woman. Of his family I have only scattering 
facts, but one daughter, Mary Ann, married a Caster and went west. 
Benhaiu married a Miss Caywood and moved to Huron. Another son mar- 
ried a Cox and went to Huron also. Lydia became the wife of Gerritt Cay- 
wood and moved to Michigan. The parents followed their children from 
the district. Then came Ananias Smith, from Patchogue, Long Island. 
His wife, Betsey Eose, very aged, is still living with her daughter, Mrs. 
Horton, in Galen. (Died Nov. 7th, 1887, in her 85th year.) Mr. Smith 
himself, after selling here, lived many years in Clyde, where he died, in 
1872, and was buried in the Seelye neighborhood. The Smith family was 
noted, far and near, for the remarkable quickness that every member 
showed in repartee. I can imagine what a circus the devoted school mas- 
ters of those days must have had with "Wash," "Marsh" and "Tim" 
Smith, all in school at one time. There onght to be no lack of variety, and 
the boys and girls who looked on must have had less than ordinary crav- 
ing for outside .shows. When T. R. S. was a small boy, he was sent to one 
of the Towns to borrow some lard. Being told that the family was out of 
lard, he says, "Well, I'll take some hog's fat then!" When, in later 
years, he went to Round Lake camp meeting and there came a time for 
testimony giving, the speakers would invariably begin by saying, "lam 
from Syracuse, Albany, New York," or other places, as the case might be. 
Our Wayne county Methodist thought the form was getting monotonous, 
and effectually ended that stereotyped preface by saying, ' ' I am from every 
place in the world but this, and, thank the Lord! I shall be from this in 
about ten minutes." His mother, in her younger days, was one of the 
most gifted women in prayer and exhortation who ever tried to draw 
humanity from its erring ways. But even she could not restrain expres- 
sions that would cause the unregenerate to laugh, as, when wishing to 
illustrate her Christian brightness, she said, "I feel like a newly snuffed 
candle." She acknowledged the weakness of chewing gum occasionally, 
but always insisted that when doing so, one should go behind the door. It 
has been told me by Long Island people that Uncle Ananias once, before 
moving from the Island, found his cow one night trespassing. He sallied 
forth in great haste to drive her away, and after chasing around the house 
two or three times, was amazed at her sudden and absolute disappearance. 
He could not account for such an effectual vanishing, until the next day 
when the poor beast was found in his own cellar, having, in her race, fallen 
into an open bulkhead. The remarks of the Smith family at this dis- 
covery, much to my sorrow, were not taken down, but the readers can 
imagine what a quicktongued woman would be likely to say at finding her 
preserves mixed up, more or less, with cow. Their children married as 
follows : Washington, Harriet Avery, of Long Island, and lives in North 
Huron ; Timothy, Fanny Roe, and is in Clyde ; Marshall, Mrs. Ann Armi- 



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tage, and also lives in Clyde; and Ellen, John Horton, and lives in Galen. 
Silas Holcomb followed. He came from Oneida county. After selling to 
S. E. Overton, he and his wife settled in the Valley and there died, in 1878 
and 1875 respectively, and are buried in the Seelye district. His son, 
Willard, died in 1858, aged 24. There are four daughters living, viz.: 
Mrs. B. G. Bloss, of New York City ; Mrs. S. C. Maxon, of Milton Junc- 
tion, Wis.; Mrs. F. M. Johnson, of Eose ; and Mrs. Jacob St. John, of 
East Galway, Saratoga county. Mrs. Holcomb' s maiden name was Free- 
love Eemingtou, a distant relative of the Ilion Eemingtous, famous the 
world over for the manufacture of firearms. There are forty-nine acres in 
the farms. Mr. Overton lived here several years and sold to Horace Per- 
kins, of Gouverneur, St. Lawrence Co., and he, moving to Galen, passed 
the farm along to Michael Meehan, whose father lived just north of the 
Lockwood farm, in Butler. (No farm in town has improved more than 
this under Mr. Meehan's care. He is from Waterford, Ireland; his wife is 
Annie Finnigan from Lyons. They have children— Thomas, Edward, 
Martin and Ellen. Could former owners return, they would hardly recog- 
nize the fine, white house into which the old wood colored one has been 
turned.) 

Eastward, on the corner, is a very pleasant place that also has passed 
through many hands. As far as I know, it was first occupied by Uriah 
Marsh, a brother of Pendar. His wife was a Caster. They had, while 
living here, no children of their own, but had adopted a girl named Jeru- 
sha Knapp. This family, too, took up the line of march for regions further 
west. One of Ananias Smith's Long Island neighbors, Eichard Garratt, 
followed Marsh. Afterward came Charles Wright, an Englishman and a 
blacksmith by trade. He was an active, energetic and exceedingly indus- 
trious man. There was no loitering when he was about. Just a trifle 
eccentric, he is still remembered for offering to a neighbor, with whom he 
had some difficulty, his coat, with the Scriptural quotation, " If thy neigh- 
bor sue thee at the law and take from thee thy coat, give to him thy cloak 
also." His boys were all girls, and he had seven of them. One is 
Mrs. Selah Finch, living on the Clyde road ; another became Mrs. Turner, 
and still another was Mrs. Scutt, of Clyde. After selling the farm Mr. 
Wright worked at blacksmithing some years in Clyde, where he eventually 
died. Mr. Edward Burrill followed, who now lives in North Eose. Then 
Abner Garlic for a time. His wife is Mary, daughter of Capt. Wm. 
Graham, who came from Washington Co. to Galen. The place is now 
owned by George Eodwell, an Englishman, who came from Lincolnshire in 
1870. With his brother, he lived for several years near Briggs, and came 
to this farm in 1883. He long ran a threshing machine, using for this pur- 
pose the first portable engine in this section. It is now in use in the mint 
still opposite. He is unmarried, his mother keeping house for him. He 
has sixty-nine acres in the farm. 



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We reach the confines of Rose and the end of the district in the next 
farm south — that of Horace Hallett. To get to this home we must cross 
Marsh creek, just below the pond whose water so long ran Briggs' saw- 
mill. The mill is going to decay, and as the need for one no longer exists, 
it will doubtless soon entirely disappear. The first mill on the site, I am 
told, was built by Elias Sherman, one of the pioneers (it is also ascribed 
to one Barnes), but this went down and afterward Colonel Briggs rebuilt 
the structure of our own day. The name of Hoag is also associated with 
this mill. The men who managed the mill had a convenient house near, 
in which have dwelt a long list of occuiiants : the only one whom we can 
mention is Jenner, whose sou, James, was killed at Cedar Creek. Mr. 
Wm. S. Hunt owns the house and i)ond. The pond itself was a very con- 
venient accessory to the neighborhood. Here the boys swam in summer 
and skated in winter. Farmers have washed their sheep, and clergymen 
baptized their converts. One of the saddest events in the chronicles of 
this neighborhood was the drowning here, long before the War, of Wilbur 
Snyder, who, having aided in the sheep washing fun, or work, just as you 
choose to call it, thought he would have a still merrier time on a raft that 
he had improvised from a barn door. The door tipped him off, he could 
not swim, and sorrowing forms about a white coffined face, tell the rest of 
the story. This is one version. Another and more probable one is, that 
a sheep escaped from the washers and swam out into the pond ; young 
Snyder followed, and being taken with a cramp perished. The Hallett 
place was taken up by John Caywood, whose name is l)orue by numerous 
descendants in the adjoining towns. He lived to be more than a hundred 
years old. His grandson, Abram, was associated with him in the manage- 
ment of the place. Twenty-five acres on the south part of his farm he 
sold, in the forties, to George Seelye, but this part with the rest of the 
farm came into the hands of Josephus Collins. He sold to James Sears, 
and he, in turn, to Jackson Harper, and he to Wm. Whitehead. Then 
came Hallett, whose wife is Barbara, daughter of Wm. Aurand. They 
have two children, William, and Kittle May, the wife of Frank Haugh of 
Clyde, Galen's town clerk. Mr. Hallett, a native of Wolcott, served in 
the army during the Eebellion. The farm has ninety-five acres. At this 
point a high hill confronts us, long known as Briggs'. Colonel Samuel 
S. Briggs for long years was the most noted man in these parts. Though 
his residence was in Galen, many of his acres were in Rose. He lived a 
worthy life and died in 1865. To him succeeded Mr. Wm. S. Hunt, his 
son-in-law, who for nearly forty years has managed this immense farm of 
more than three hundred acres. Mr. Hunt has one son, Wm. A., who is 
in Briggs' Bank, Clyde; a daughter, Martha L., died in 1875, in her 
eighteenth year. Mr. Hunt is a member of the Clyde Methodist Church, 
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Coming back to the cross roads, by the home of George Rodwell, we 
shall have to go eastward again ; crossing a swampy stretch of land and 
climbing a hill, we are on the Butler line. At our right is a house which 
marks the former home of Sam. Kilburn, who sold to a Mr. Devoe. One 
of Devoe' s daughters was the wife of John Stringer, whom we have seen 
as the first occupant of the Dudley Wade farm. My information concern- 
ing this family is exceedingly meagre, but I have the impression that the 
old people died here, and to them succeeded a grandson, John Devoe, who 
married a Howland, and afterward went to Illinois. The Devoe family 
was noted far and near for its musical ability ; a talent often sought in 
scenes of country festivity. After Devoe came the Turners, and Charles 
Wright owned a part of the place. A Mr. Cummings, related to Wm. 
Haney, was here for a time. His daughter, Libbie, was, for a number 
of years, a teacher in Rose and Clyde. With her sister Mary, she is now 
in Chicago. Charles Covell, now county superintendent of the poor, 
owned the place for a while, and, I think, sold to Buckley, the present 
owner. John J. Buckley is Irish born, from county Kerry, though coming 
to Rose from Lyons. His wife is Annie Dwyer. Their children are Mary; 
Sarah, who is Mrs. Edward Welch of North Rose; Maggie, who married 
Matthew Kane of Throop; Edward, employed with New York Central 
Railroad; Michael, John, and Martin. Mr. Buckley has repaired and 
improved the buildings, moving to this side a house, once standing nearly 
opposite. The town line runs through his sitting room, so he can take 
his choice as to the town he stays in. He has about 100 acres in his farm, 
having added to it the old Austin Roe place, across the way. 

Opposite, many years since, there was a log house, in which lived 
Jonathan Fuller. He was not a careful farmer, but delighted more in 
roaming about the neighborhood and imbibing hard cider, than in putting 
in the " big licks " on his land. The story is told that the young men of 
the vicinity came one very bright moonlight night, cut and bound his very 
scant crop of wheat and set it up in proper form. Then getting a cow 
bell, they began to tinkle it. Soon the old man came out with his wife to 
drive away the intruding kine. But, however fast the old people ran, the 
cow ran faster, apd effectually dodged them. It took the man some time to 
discover that the wheat had been harvested, but when he did, he nearly 
convulsed the boys by straightening himself up, and exclaiming: " By the 
eternal gods. Phcebe, that's no cow." The expression was long a by-word 
in the vicinity. The place finally came into Austin Roe's possession, and 
he held it until his sale to John B. Roe. Austin R. retained fifteen acres 
on the north and south road. A Mr. Harmon owned near this farm once, 
and I think the places were finally merged. One of the Harmons married 
Polly Lounsberry. A framed house was built on the north side of the 
road by a Mr. Irwin, I am told, who was a blacksmith. John B. Roe sold 



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the whole farm to his son, Merwin S., who, with his first wife, began 
housekeeping here. He managed the place for a time, and then sold to 
Mr. Buckley, who moved the buildings to the south side, and thus identi- 
fied the two farms. The writer of these sketches has recollections of work 
in Merwin's barn that, to this day, induce waves of heat even to contem- 
plate. It was G. G. E.'s last summer on the farm, and that day's thresh- 
ing completely dispelled any notions that we inay have had of making 
farming our life work. The Lockwood boys ran the thresher and they 
always, made it lively for all concerned. The barley stack was on the 
west side of the barn, and old Sol never sent his rays more directly nor 
pointedly than he did on that August afternoon. George and I were on 
the stack, and it was our duty to keep that voracious, cavernous maw full. 
Wellington never longed for Blucher or night as did we for the going down 
of the sun or the using up of that pile of barley. Pricked and nettled by 
barley beards, dusty beyond recognition, and completely parboiled by the 
sun and perspiration, we went home to wash up and to mutually sympa- 
thize. What bliss we extracted on the barn floor from those pails of 
water! We turned about in scrubbing, and I never shall forget George's 
thin voice as he remarked, while undergoing kneading at my hands : "If 
there is any easier work than this in the world, I am going to do it. You 
won't catch me on the farm another year." He spoke the truth ; it was 
his valedictory. Though tired as we were, and while going through the 
sitting room to bed, we changed our entire plans, and were comijletely 
revived by a communication from Aunt E., to the effect that we were 
invited up to F. H.'s to spend the evening. Instead of donning night 
garments, we put on our best, and were soon off to spend not only the 
evening, but a large part of the next morning. So quickly do the youthful 
body and spirit renew themselves. 

In this district we have to travel in all directions, and we must now 
return to Wright's cross roads and journey northward. Old residents will 
readily recall a log house standing on the east side of the road, just opposite 
the Marsh place. Some api^le trees now mark the vicinity. It gradually 
deteriorated until it became a barn and then only an occasional shelter for 
animals pasturing in the lot. I cannot name the builder, but in the earlier 
years of the century it was occupied by one Knapp, who, selling, moved 
to Nunda, Livingston Co. After him came an Allen and jjerhai^s other 
occupants. Before this the laud had become Austin Eoe's. He retained 
it until his death, willing it to Austin M. Eoe, his son, who sold to John 
B. Eoe, to whose estate, I think, it now belongs. (Since sold to Wm. H. 
Sowls. who has erected a house and purj^oses to reside here.) 

The Marsh jilace is one of the oldest in the district. Amos Marsh came 
from Connecticut, town of New Hartford, early in the century, and marry- 
ing Polly, sister of John Q. Deady, reared here his large family. He was 
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a genuine pioneer and experienced all the viscissitudes of life among the 
Indians and wild animals. He had his hogs killed by bears and was him- 
self pursued by wolves. He entertained the vagrant Indian and reclaimed 
his home from the pristine forest. His log house was burned and his 
family had a narrow escape ; but he lived through all these trials till 1866, 
when he died at the age of sixty-nine. His wife died in 1873, aged nearly 
seventy-five. The children of thirty and more years ago will recall the 
large orchard which shut out the view of the house. This a severe storm 
of some years since, completely leveled. It not only destroyed the trees, 
but it nearly wrecked the barn and outbuildings. So from fire and wind 
the estate has had its share of suffering. The story is told of William, the 
oldest son, that being vexed at something, be one day seized an axe and 
proceeded to level his father's apple orchard. He was interrupted in this 
diversion before he had played George Washington on all the trees, but 
with unappeased wrath, he joined the " forty-niners " for California, where 
he has since remained. (He died June, 1892, in Carson City, Nev.) Of 
the other children, Eoswell, unmarried, lives on the farm, and this same 
farm bears excellent testimony to his care and diligence. On the hillside, 
toward the west, is, I believe, the only collection of maple trees still 
devoted to sugar making in this part of the town. There is hardly an old 
home near that has not its alder spiles and its old bailless kegs, telling of 
the sweet times of long ago ; but the trees have gone. Though not directly 
interested in the product, I hope this " sugar bush " may long continue to 
afford saccharine satisfaction to the family. Nearly all the family bear 
names that relatives before them had borne in the old Connecticut home. 
Eoswell's great uncle, Eoswell Marsh, was the largest land owner in the- 
town of New Hartford. He was the nearest neighbor therp to the Shepards, 
who, in fact, sold to him when they moved to this state. Amos was 
accompanied, on his immigration, by his brothers Uriah and Pendar, who 
after a time went further west. Coming back to Amos' family, we find 
Uriah, Henry and Cornelius — three young men of stalwart frame, good 
habits and industrious natures, who were for some years the favorite 
helps of neighboring farmers. Were John B. Eoe living, he would readily 
add his testimony to these words. All of them enlisted in Company H of 
the 9th Heavy Artillery, and all were good soldiers, though Cornelius was 
discharged before the regiment left the defenses of Washington. Uriah, 
and Henry stayed through and were discharged with their comrades in 
1865. I remember both the boys at Cold Harbor, and they were then just 
the same capable help to Uncle Sam that they had been in former years to 
my Uncle John. After the War, Uriah, named for his uncle, married his 
second cousin, Eveline Wadsworth, of Butler, and settled there. He died 
in 1890, as patriotic and deserving a son as our town ever produced. I 
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pleasant memories of my early friend, who, to me, had been in time 
of need like an elder brother. Henry married Mary, sister of William 
Desmond, and went to the west. Cornelius took for his wife Mrs. Jane 
Leaton, and now lives west of the Valley. Garrett, the youngest son, 
married Addie Clark, and has lived for several years in Clyde. He is a 
carpenter by trade. Of the daughters, Lydia married William Green of 
Glenmark ; Rebecca, as already stated, married Martin Saxton ; Lorinda 
died at home, unmarried, in 1874 ; Matilda is at the old fireside. Amos 
Marsh's old mother accompanied him in his moving to the then west and 
narrowly escaped suffocation at the time of the burning of the house. She, 
too, I suppose, sleeps with her children and grandchildren in the burial 
ground near. 



SCHOOL DISTEICT No. 6, STEWART'S. 

.Vol'. 17, lS87—Jan. 19, 1SS8. 

This district, quite likely the first established within the limits of the 
town, was originally much larger than at present, including an area now 
supporting several schools. From the outset it has borne its present name, 
derived from the early settler, Lott Stewart, whose home was at the cross 
roads just north of the school-house. For seventy-five years some one of 
the name has lived on the site, and the corners deserve their appellation. 
Of the school-house itself, mention was made in earlier letters. This build- 
ing is a comfortable white structure, succeeding the old red one. Red was 
the favorite color in our grandfathers' days for school-houses. Doubtless 
it was cheap as compared with any other ; it made the edifice prominent, 
and as a logical sequence, I suppose, they thought the pupils might be well 
read. The red house went back to the log building, in which our grand- 
fathers themselves were instructed. To prevent undo hilarity, probably, 
on the i^art of their youth, the early settlers placed their first cemetery 
just a few steps to the east, and used it till about 1830. Memento mori, or 
remember to die, must have ever been before the children's eyes. Alvin 
Clark, brother of "Priest" Clark, was one of the teachers in the log 
school-house, and to illustrate the strictness of rule in those days, he 
severely whipped George Seelye for making a superfluous mark in his 
copy-book. Mr. Clark was very severe in school hours, but at recess and 
noon he could unbend. He snow-balled with the boys and flirted with the 
girls. It is even told that, one noon, when both arms were occupied in 
holding upon his knees two girls, he ordered William Kellogg, now of 
Cattaraugus county, to wipe his (the teacher's) nose, he having no hand 
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52 EOSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 

ance nowadays excite ? By a strange streak of fortune, the nearest house 
was Lott Stewart's tavern. This, a double log house, stood at the corner, 
where is now the home of George Stewart. Without any authoritative 
statement, I think we may claim this as one of the very earliest crossings 
in the town. The Galen salt road went very near this point, terminating 
at Port Glasgow, and the rather crooked way leading from the Valley to 
Wolcott must have followed the early slashing of Jonathan Melvin, Sr. 

Lott Stewart was a very early settler from Saratoga county — Ballston 
Spa. His tavern was the first one outside of the village, and was long a 
halting place on the way to Wolcott and Rose. It stood on the north side 
of the road, about eight rods east of the corners, where now are the ruins 
of some Lombardy poplars. Under later usage, however, the inn would 
be quite too near the school-house. At this tavern in " ye olden time," 
the town meetings, were held alternately with those at Wolcott. It is one 
of the mysteries of fate that with a tavern, school-house and the town 
meeting, not to mention the cemetery, this place should not have been the 
village instead of Rose. Very likely the division of the town of Wolcott, 
making Rose Valley the center of the new town, had much to do with its 
growth. This, one of the very earliest points to be settled in the town, 
was occupied by Lott Stewart, of Saratoga county. His second wife was 
Mary Harmon, a daughter of Alpheus, his nearest neighbor on the east. 
He had in all two sons and seven daughters. Of these, James succeeded 
him on the home estate, while he himself moved away from the neighbor- 
hood, dying in Cattaraugus county, as did his wife also. His first wife 
died before he left Saratoga county. By his first marriage he had a son, 
James, and two daughters, and by his second, one son, Allen, and five 
daughters — Hannah, Amanda, Lucy, Betsey and Cynthia. James Stewart 
married Fanny Lomis, of Yates county, and had one son, George D., and 
two daughters— Ann Eliza, who died unmarried in 1842, aged twenty-four, 
and Lydia, who married Richard Armstrong, of Butler, who went first to 
Waterloo, Iowa, and afterwards to Dakota. James Stewart had a good 
reputation as a farmer and neighbor, and died in April, 1862, aged seventy 
years. His wife died in Iowa. His son, George, who siicceeded him on 
the old place, was one of the earliest converts to Second Adventism in the 
town, and from the early forties to the present he has been the most con- 
spicuous believer in the doctrine in the vicinity, carrying his faith in the 
Master's coming, in at least one instance, even to the extent of not putting 
in seed in the spring— he and his fellow believers thinking they would 
have other business before harvest time. His first wife was Sally Bump, 
who was the mother of Lawton J. Stewart, a young man of much promise, 
who died in 1861, at the early age of twenty-four. He lies, with his kindred, 
in the Collins burial ground. The mother herself died in 1849, aged forty. 
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living— George H., a teacher in South Butler, and Mary E., who lives at 
home. Two daughters, Aurelia G. and Lillian E., died at the ages of eight 
and fifteen, respectively. The present Stewart house was long the wonder 
of the neighborhood on account of its two wings and its unusual size. It 
is considerably more than fifty years old. (From Mr. S. this farm passed 
to the late Mr. Soule of Kochester, and from him to Silas Lovejoy. The 
latter's son-in-law, Alfred Jones, now lives here. The house has under- 
gone several changes, being much improved thereby.) 

Going toward the south from the corners, we find no residence till we 
reach the home of John Atkinson. Most people, recalling the place at all, 
will think of it as the former home of " Harl " Wright. The latter was 
one of those easy-going men who like a good story and who know all about 
their neighbors. His favorite by- word was " Godies," and many a time, 
in conversation with his nearest neighbor, J. J. Seelye, have I heard him 
say, "Godies, Jud, that won't do." His wife was a daughter of Jesse 
Olmstead. They had one daughter, who is the wife of Charles Eeed 
(subsequently sheriff of Wayne county), of Huron. " Harl," in connec- 
tion with his small farm, was a carpenter by trade, and did much work in 
the vicinity. He died some years since and is buried in Wolcott. His 
father, Daniel, came from Tioga county and bought a small piece of land 
from the old Stewart estate, though I think he purchased directly from 
Nathaniel Center. He, too, was a carpenter. His death came in 1854, at 
the age of seventy-two. His wife, Mary Hyatt, survived till 1872, when she 
died, aged nearly eighty-two. Both are buried near the Seelye corners. 
How Mr. Wright's name, Albert, was metamorphosed into "Harl" 
would puzzle the most skillful philologist. He had seven brothers and 
sisters, as follows : Sylvanus; John; Henry; Augusta; Elizabeth, who 
married Eben Rising of the Valley ; Mary, wife of Wm. H. Saunders, well 
known in Wayne county ; and Jane, who became the wife of George Porter 
of Auburn. Mrs. Saunders has three children — one, George, married 
Leora, oldest child of Hudson Wood, and resides in Xew York City; 
another, Augusta, is the wife of J. J., son of " Ham" Closs. They live 
in Michigan ; the third, William A., is yet unmarried. Mr. Atkinson is 
English born, and of excellent reputation. His wife's maiden name was 
Allie Hield. They have one sou, George, at home. 

Just a few rods further along is the road taking us to Clyde, and facing 
this, years ago, was a log house. Very likely there is not a trace of the 
building now. I believe this was built by Simeon Hendricks, a good old 
Methodist brother, who was wont to say in meeting that his sins rested 
on his shoulders like a potash kettle. Both he and his wife were short 
and very stout, and betrayed in form and speech, as well as in name, their 
Dutch origin. They came from Herkimer county in 1816 to Galen. To 
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meeting. "When night came, the d — 1 would whisper to me that I was 
too tired to go to prayer meeting, but I would take my cane and start 
slowly for the school-house. The nearer I got, the less tired I felt, till, 
the meeting over, I would trip it home as lively as a boy." Again, 
describing an experience common, I guess, to all farmers, he told this 
story: " The hogs were in the corn. I tried to drive them out, but the 
more I ran, the more they did, till I knelt down and prayed. "When I got 
up I shouted 'ste-boy,' and away they went, every one of them." He 
had nine children, but I can trace only a few of them. Barbara married 
Ealph Fuller, son of Brastus Fuller, living nearer the Valley ; Betsey was 
the wife of Peter Aldrich, a name well known in the vicinity ; Katy mar- 
ried William Aurand of Galen. There were other children, whose 
descendants live in this and adjoining towns. From this place they moved 
south to the Briggs neighborhood and there died. Delos Seelye and his 
wife here began housekeeping, and here their oldest child, Angeline, was 
born. Soon after his leaving, the house fell into decay and finally disap- 
peared. 

Keeping the direct road south, on the east side of the road is an old, 
unpainted house, now unused, and fast falling to pieces. This site was 
the early home of the Aldriches. The first comer of the name was Micajah, 
from Chenango county. His wife was an Elliott, a relative of Mrs. George 
Seelye. In the inevitable log house dwelt, in time, Edward A. Aldrich, 
son of the preceding. At present I have no data concerning him, but I 
suppose he took uj) the line of march for the west. The first Aldrich and 
wife were buried in the old ground by the Stewart's school-house. After 
Aldrich, came Deacon David Foster, a gentleman of most excellent repute. 
He had a son, David. Two of his daughters married brothers named 
Lyon ; and one, Nancy, became the wife of Abram Knight of Clyde. On 
selling, the Fosters went to Sodus. A brother-in-law, Mr. Davis, bought 
of Foster a small tract, and built the next house to the south. This, from 
the start, has borne a red color. Both Davis and Foster were from the 
east, and were most excellent members of the Presbyterian Church. Then 
came James T. Vandereof from Orange county. This name most unquali- 
fiedly betrays a Dutch origin. His wife was Martha Post, and their four 
children were born before leaving their old home. They settled first in 
Huron. Both are now dead, and lie in the Collins burial ground. The 
father died in 1870, with his son, William, in the Valley. Both of these 
people were estimable members of the Methodist Church. The oldest son. 
Post, married Isabella Hake in Michigan ; afterward lived in Lyons, and 
there died. William and John, as noted in the account of the Town dis- 
trict, wedded Emily and Sarah Town, respectively. William, an excellent 
carpenter and joiner, lived in the Valley, where he died. John has 
already been noted as dead also. It has been mentioned in my hearing, 



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as a noteworthy fact, that the sons were married in order, beginning with 
the youngest and so upward. All had one son each, and each wife had 
curly hair. The only daughter, Rachel, married James Burt, went west, 
and has long been dead. After leaving this farm, James T. Vandereof 
moved to Wolcott. To him succeeded Chester Lee, eldest son of Lyman 
Lee. His wife, Sally, was a daughter of Jabob Miller, who was Solomon 
Allen's predecessor on his place. Lee sold to Washington Ellinwood, or, 
at any rate, was succeeded by him. The latter had married Mary, a 
daughter of Lyman Lee, who died early in life, leaving a daughter, who 
became the wife of Philip Turner of the Valley. Both of them are dead. 
Mr. Ellinwood married again, and has for many years resided in the 
Valley. Till Mr. Cleveland's administration, he was the postmaster. A 
second daughter is the wife of Clayton Allen of this district. Lee moved 
to Ashtabula county, Ohio, where he died twenty years ago. Of his 
family, Judson J. is a merchant in St. Louis, Mo.; and John W., a con- 
tractor and builder in Toledo. Both of these gentlemen retain a lively 
interest in their native town. To them is due the handsome monument to 
the memory of Lyman Lee in the Ellinwood burial ground. Kext we find 
here Hudson Wood, son-in-law of Thaddeus Collins. He has been men- 
tioned somewhat at length in former letters. One daughter, Hattie, was 
born in the red house, which thereafter l^ecame the j^rincipal house on the 
farm, the old wood colored one being relegated to the back seat, as it were. 
In it Wood lived for a part of a year after selling, and before moving to 
Butler. It might be possible to name each family that has lived in the 
building, but it wouldn't pay. One family, however, merits more than a 
passing notice, that of Michael Marsteiner, always known in these parts 
as "Mike." The honors of his house were fully equally shared by his 
frau, Eene, whom the neighbors called "Rayner." In hiring them for 
farm work, the farmers rather preferred the nominally weaker vessel, 
claiiiung that she could do more work than her husband. He had been a 
soldier in the Bavarian army, and as such had received a bad wound in 
some one of the engagements into which the paternal (?) government had 
forced its subjects. This breaking out occasionally, made him at times 
something of an invalid, but "Mike" would work as long as he could 
stand, and so would his wife. I believe there was no kind of farm work 
which she could not do with wonderful success. As to her housekeeping 
qualities, I am not prepared to speak, but certainly her two children, 
whenever they appeared in public, were clean and neat. Rene had very 
little time to devote to mere care of her progeny, and when the first one 
was a week old, the mother was hard at work in the field, while the baby 
was lying conveniently near on the ground. One day some people passing 
the house, saw the strange sight of a small child suspended from the door 
latch by his shirt fiap. When the second child came, the first one was 



56 KOSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 

promoted to baby tender, while the parents were at work without. It 
seems that the lad, then two years old, had climbed into a chair for some 
purpose, and, in turning about, had caught his garment, the only thing he 
had on, upon the projecting latch. In his effort to release himself, the 
chair had fallen over and there was the infant in almost as perilous a 
position as was the youthful Putnam, when only the hem of his trousers 
leg saved him from a head-long fall from the tree. It is said that the 
baby balanced very well, and that his frantic arm and leg motions indi- 
cated great talent in the swimming line. The passer-by soon liberated the 
child, much to his own relief and that of his scarcely older sister. The 
Marsteiners were very saving as well as industrious, and in time owned 
a farm near Lock Berlin. Louis, the son, now married, lives upon it. 
" Mike " and his wife and, possibly Mary, the daughter, live near Roch- 
ester. Hudson Wood sold to James Sheffield and his son, Kendrick. 
The latter we have already mentioned as a resident of District No. 7. 
The father, a brother of Mrs. Geo. Seelye, was born in Xorthumberland, 
Washington county. He was a son of Dr. James Sheffield, who afterward 
moved to Chenango county, town of Sherburne. His wife was Lucy Stevens 
of Troy, Bradford county, Penn. He was considerably past middle life 
when he came to this town, but his fervor on all topics in which he was 
interested, and his eloquence on all religious subjects, few who knew him 
will ever forget. To me his face was wonderfully suggestive of that of 
Lafayette, as I have seen the same depicted in print. His stay in the 
red house was not continuous, he living for a while in the Peter Aldrich 
house. But, coming back to this abode, he died here in 1859, aged nearly 
sixty- five. He was a life-long Baptist. "Aunt" Lucy, his wife, did not 
rejoin him till 187-t, at the age of seventy-four and past. Her home was 
with her sons, Joel and Kendrick, but much of her time was passed with 
her sister-in-law, Mrs. Deacon Seelye, at whose home she died. Every- 
where her sunny, genial nature assured her a most cordial welcome. 
Their eldest son, Willard, lived and died in New York, but is buried in 
Rose. The hitter's son, James, also a resident of New York, is one of 
the most devoted of the summer dwellers at Charles' Point. ( His wife is 
Cassie H., daughter of the late Hon. Thos. Johnson of Savannah.) His 
sister, Sarah, is the widow of Linus Osgood. Beside Kendrick, Mr. S. 
had other sons — Judson, who died in Chenango county ; and Joel, now the 
postTuaster of Rose. The ShefiBelds sold to Charles Mirick, son of George 
Mirick, one of the town's oldest and best known citizens. He in time 
sold, and after keeping a store for a time in Clyde, moved to Adrian, 
Mich. His successor was Gleason Wickwire from Madison county. He 
is a relative of the Seelyes ; second cousin, I believe, of George and Delos. 
His second wife is Eliza Chase of Hamilton, herself a sister of the wife of 
Kendrick Sheffield. Mr. W. has pretty nearly passed the management of 



EOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 57 

affairs over to his son, Jarit, better known as "Jet," who married Ida, 
, daughter of Jairiis McKoon of Butler. By his first wife, Mary Brown, he 
had Matilda, who is now the wife of Lueian Osgood of the Valley. ( Mr. 
W. died Aug. 1, 18SS, and is buried in the Eose cemetery.) 

On this road it remains only to mention a little event happening some 
years ago — for the next house, the old home of Joseph Seelye, is in District 
No. 7. Very near the bolder line is an old beech tree, on the west side of 
the way and close to the wall. I doubt whether more scars or initials can 
be found on any equal amount of surface in the town. That smooth 
expanse of bark was a greater temptation than any boy with a pocket 
knife could withstand, and so he cut his own name, and then the initial* 
of the girl he thought he loved, and so on till the devoted tree is like the 
aged hemlock mentioned by the Indian chief, Shenandoah, " dead at the 
top." The old tree must soon follow the men who have rested beneath 
its shade and, like them, moulder back. But I did not stop at the tree to 
moralize; it was to see two boys coming at a break-neck pace from the 
uorth. They are on their father's horses, and are on their way home from 
Van Antwerp's blacksmith shop, where the old gentleman has renewed 
the iron shoes while the boys switched flies. Did you ever see two boys 
who could resist the temptation to race, particularly if they were young, 
wiry, farmer boys ? Who gave the stump I cannot tell ; perhaps the boys 
themselves cannot, but there they are, coming at the top of their speed. 
They are yelling and lashing their beasts, each determined to reach the 
swamp first. They run neck by neck. Merwin's " old Doll " is an excel- 
lent horse, but " Sol's " white mare keeps well along. Who would have 
won, I cannot state, for here, right by the tree, Sol's horse stumbled and 
threw her rider completely over her head. The boy is stunned and uncon- 
scious, and friends labored long and anxiously over him. Doubtless as 
he convalesced, he heard many lectures on the sinfulness of horse racing, 
and the dangers incident thereto. The boy thus thrown became a major 
before the close of the Rebellion. Then he sat his steed better. 

We must now retrace our steps to the road which turns westward and then 
twists southward in its peculiar direction, a reminder of the early settlers 
who laid out roads without chart or compass, and sometimes, one might 
think, followed a cow. Be this as it may, as we swing around the turn 
and get well started on the Valley road, if we look sharp through the 
apple trees, lilac bushes and shrubbery, we shall find a small house, which 
for nearly or quite thirty years has stood in the name of J. J. Seelye, better 
known in Rose as "Jud." Some years since, with his son, Ernest, he went 
to Sully county, Dakota, where he now is. His wife, who was Frank 
Osgood, remains on the place. Ernest O. married, first, Mattie Chase of 
Hamilton, niece of Mrs. Kendrick Sheffield, and, after her death, united 
his fortunes with those of Edith, daughter of Winfield Chaddock, deceased. 



58 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 

Together with her mother, they set forth for their home in the extreme 
■west, and are trying to make the prairie bud and blossom. George S., 
the younger son, who married Alice Leaton, and for a while lived at this 
home, has also gone to Dakota. It was here that Mr. Seelye made his 
first essay at farming and housekeeping. He set out trees, vines and 
shrubs. He has tried about all the schemes that farming affords ; but 
now claims to find Dakota a much happier locality. He served during 
the Rebellion in the Itth Heavy Artillery. His predecessor was his uncle, 
James Sheffield, who bought of the original patentee, Peter Aldrich. 
He, a son of Micajah, had married a daughter of Simeon Hendricks. His 
log house was of the most primitive character, destitute, I am told, of 
windows. He was a large, vigorous man, and noted in his day for his 
wood-chopping powers. He once had a fight with Eoger Barnum, who 
lived further west, and in the bout he put out one of Barnum's eyes. Both 
were in liquor, a not infrequent condition for them, but later B. sued 
Aldrich for damage, and secured judgment to the extent of one hundred 
dollars. To pay this, he sold from the south part of his farm to Joseph 
Seelye, who in time sold to his son, George. So in neighborhood parlance 
the affair stands as "ten acres for an eye," that being just the amount of 
land parted with to pay the bill. He had several children, viz.: Maria, 
who married an Eastman from Sangerfield ; Prudence, Columbus Loveless 
of Butler ; Polly, Daniel Doty of Butler also. The sons, "Walter and 
Micajah, went to Michigan, as did Peter and his wife. There was a daugh- 
ter, Barbara, whose name appears in an exijression which the old man was 
heard to utter when his cattle got into his corn. "Hop, Walter; jump, 
Cager; where the d — I's Barb! " ( J. J. Seelye has returned from Dakota 
and lives in the Valley. George S. also came back, and after several 
years' struggle with disease, died in June, 1893. at the age of 32 years. 
He left a son, Joseph Leaton.) 

Before we reach the next home, we must pause a moment at the site of 
a log house on the west side of the road. Here dwelt John Osborn, who 
came from Lincolnshire, England. He had seven sons, all born in Eng- 
land, and two daughters, Eliza and Mary A., born after coming to this 
country. Of these children, Sumuel lives on the first road north ; Abner 
and Elijah live west of the Valley ; Isaac was killed by lightning in the 
house where Samuel, Jr., lives. The father died in the same building. 

Further along, but on the east side, was another log house, which John 
Osborn once owned. He took it from one Stoddard, who, leaving these 
parts, became a nurseryman in Rochester. After Mr. Osborn, came Daniel 
Crampton, who owned thirty-six acres, and who built the frame house, so 
long situated in the bend of the road. Before him, though, in the log house or 
shanty, lived at sundry times a Drury, whose wife was in some way related 
to Alverson Wade's first wife, and by the brothers Jason and Fred Wright, 



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the latter a charcoal burner. I am told that a Mr. Hickok, grandfather of 
Felton and Eugene, once lived here ; but the name most conspicuous 
among its occupants was that of L'Amoreaux. Certainly, Fi-ench origin 
is evident here, and from the names in the Collins burial ground, there 
must have been quite a family representation in these parts, but no one of 
the name now lives in town. Peter L. and his wife, Elizabeth, are buried 
in the cemetery ; but Joel, their son, is the one with whom we are chiefly 
concerned. He had married a widow Baldwin, and had but one son, 
Sullivan, who, during the War, served in the 9th Heavy Artillery. He 
enlisted in Company F, from Cayuga county, and came home a brevet lieu- 
tenant-colonel. After leaving Rose, Mr. and Mrs. L. lived in Throopsville, 
Cayuga Co., and there died. Some of Mr. L.'s eccentricities will long be 
remembered. For instance, calling at a house where the people were 
accustomed to ask the divine blessing upon the food before eating, and, the 
man of the house being away, the good lady very innocently asked Mr. 
L'Amoreaux to perform that dutj'. The farmer twisted uneasily for a 
moment and then groaned forth, "Lady, I never did such a thing in my 
life." I don't know whether the lady asked the blessing herself or 
whether the food was eaten unblessed. As a story teller, he never had a 
parallel in Rose. Here is a specimen: "I was mowing one day in that 
meadow down yonder, when, happening to look up, I saw a big buck deer 
just a little way from me, and to all appearances al)ont as much surprised 
at seeing me as I was at beholding him. Well, I wasn't going to lose that 
chance for venison, so I dropped my scythe and started for him. I never 
had such a race in my life. I nearly ran my legs off ; but he finally got 
stuck in a snow bank. Without stopping a moment, I grabbed him by his 
horns and then we had it. All I could do was to hang on, while he plunged 
and pushed and pawed till he had ripped every rag of clothing off my body. 
There wasn't a stitch left. What to do I didn't know. If I let go, he 
might kill me, and I, instead of he, would be fresh meat. Luckily, just 
then I happened to think of a long knife that I had in my pocket. Draw- 
ing this out, I cut his throat just as slick as a mink." Any inconsistency 
in this yarn seemed never to occur to the narrator. I have wondered 
whether, as a good Baptist brother in Throopsville, his stoi-ies were as 
interesting as they were when the teller was unregenerate. After the 
L'Amoreauss, the place was merged with the farm opposite, and the house, 
like many others, saw all the degrees of decadence incident to tenant 
houses, and now nothing i-emains to mark its location. To show how 
names change in their daily use, it is interesting to know that the family 
and neighbors forty years since pronounced the foregoing name " Lum- 
meree." 

At the risk of making a bull, I must state that the next place is back of 
us and on the west side. Here early in the century, came Alverson Wade 



60 KOBE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 

from the east. His first wife was Naomi Miinger. His second wife, who 
survived him, was a widow DeGolyer from Clyde. As Mr. Wade and his 
first wife were buried in the Stewart's corners burial ground, and as all 
trace of any memorial long since disappeared, it is impossible from any 
data at hand to tell just when they died, though it is probable that Mr. W* 
died about 1828. Alverson Wade was a brother of Esquire John Wade, 
who lived further west, and of Mrs. Deacon Shepard, of the No. 7 district. 
It is said that he was born in Penobscot, Me., 1759, and that living near 
Boston later, he drove an ox team with supplies to the scene of the battle 
at Bunker Hill, where his father, Dr. John Wade, was a surgeon. Later 
still, he resided in Spi'ingfield, Mass., where his children were born, viz.: 
Joseph, 1784; Uriah, Naomi, Loviaa, Lucy and Mary. All of these went 
west. Naomi became Mrs. Jeremiah Chapin ; Lovina, 1st, Mrs. Marcus 
Page ; 2d, Mrs. Elihu Drnry ; Lucy, Mrs. Zenas Fairbanks ; Mary, Mrs. 
Foster Collins. All reared large families. 

I have understood that Peter L'Amoreaux, father of Joel L., succeeded 
the Wades upon this farm. Concerning him and his wife, I have no data, 
save the facts of their deaths as recorded in the Collins burial ground. 
John Lee, a brother of Lyman and Joel, came nest on this farm. He was 
a native of Townsend, Vermont, where he was born, March 7th, 1803. His 
wife, Philura Wells, was born in Athens, Vermont, March 5th, 1802. 
Marrying in 1825, April 3d, they migrated in November of the following 
year to oar town and settled on this farm. They here resided and reared 
their children till 1850, when they removed to Morgan, Ashtabula Co., 
Ohio. There Mrs. Lee died, April 27th, 1855. In January, 1867, Mr. Lee 
removed to Painesville, the same state, and died March 26th, 1881. There 
were three sons — Oscar W., who married Laura Lovejoy, of Eose, and uow 
resides in Painesville, Ohio; Newton, who wedded Elsie Chaddock, a 
sister of Alonzo and Winfield C, and lives in Cleveland, Ohio ; Nelson O., 
the youngest, who married in Ohio, and now dwells in Painesville, that 
state. His business is that of wholesale druggist and grocer. We next 
find here Philetus Chamberlain, who, a native of Monroe county, has 
already been mentioned in the town district. His wife was Julia Barnes, 
from the Briggs neighborhood. Of his children, Mary is the wife of George 
Graves and lives in Wolcott ; Louisa went to Jackson, Mich., and married 
a Dr. Fields ; Philena, married, lives near her father in Mendon, Monroe 
Co. His only son, a boy when he moved away, is a prominent lawyer in 
Eochester. Mr. C. is remembered as a good farmer. After him came 
Milton Town, son of Silas and Polly. He repaired and very much 
improved the house. The property is still in the possession of his widow 
and son. (Eecently Mr. Town has moved the barns to the east side of the 
road, much improving the same.) 



ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 61 

Standing well back from the road, with capacious barns just east of it, is 
a comfortable looking house, now owned by Clayton J. Allen. We first find 
the place in the hands of Joseph Wade, son of Alverson, already referred 
to. Mr. Wade married Rhoda Rundell in Oneida Co. They had six chil- 
dren, of whom Louisa married James Davenport ; Willis S., married Ahuira 
Bannister; Lucy, died in infancy ; JLircus P., married, 1st, Nerrissa Cran- 
ston: 2d, Abigail C. Giles ; Uriah, married Lucy P. Giles ; Joseph C, mar- 
ried Mary E. "Wilson. The family went to Michigan in 1834. All have 
held places of trust in their respective communities. Following him came 
Jacob Miller, whom early settlers will remember as a man of stalwart 
frame, a native of Pennsylvania. His first wife was a May ; his second, 
Amy Dix, born in Ovid, a relative of the John A. Dix family. His family 
was very large; Sarah, by her first marri.age, became Mrs. Chester Lee; 
Mary married Nathan W. Thomas ; Eliza, Samuel Otto ; Caroline, Richard 

Squires, Seville, O.; Harriet, three times married, 1st, Whitesides in 

Ohio ; Emily, Elder, Seville ; Melinda, James Quail ; 2d, Case, ' 

died in Iowa; Louisa married and died in Ohio ; Daniel ; George C. married, 
1st, a daughter of George Stewart in Butler ; 2d, a Closs, cousin of the 
Rose Glosses ; Rush died young ; Jacob B. is in Kansas : Edmund in 
Seville, O. The Millers, who were staunch Methodists, went to Ohio, and 
to them succeeded the family of Solomon Allen. The latter was from Tin- 
mouth, Vermont. He always claimed to be related to the family of the 
famous Ethau Allen ; but just how near the relationship was I cannot 
determine. Mr. Allen was twice married — first to Ziphe Horton, and 
second to Susan Westcott. By his first marriage, he had Aldula, who mar- 
ried Zadoc Taylor and lives near Carrier's corners ; Nathan died in 1842, 
aged nineteen years ; and Noah, who married Elizabeth Playford, of Huron, 
and moved to Wisconsin. By his second wife, he had Nathaniel, who 
married Anna Bull, of Huron, and now resides in Cleveland, Ohio, as 
clerk of the courts; Lampsou, who married Augusta Wilson, of Rose; 
Charles married Amanda Stark, of Wolcott, and as a merchant now lives 
in that village; Harriet became the wife of Dorr Center, of the same 
school district, and went to Illinois ; and, lastly, Clayton, who married 
Mary, daughter of Washington EUinwood. He holds the old farm, and 
long may it continue in the Allen name. The fact that his only child, Rus- 
sell, is a boy, insures the succession, unless the fates intervene, for the 
next generation. Solomon Allen came to Rose in 18.33, and purchased the 
farm now owned by Hudson Wood. When General Adams wished to cut 
or dig the Sodus canal, he bought Mr. Allen's place, and the latter came 
to this farm, where he died, in 1870, at the age of seventy-nine. His wife, 
very aged, still survives. (Died Jan. 26th, 1888, aged 84 years.) Mr. 
Allen was a man very much respected by all having him in acquaintance, 
^ud in 1852 served his fellow townsmen as supervisor. The Allen house, 



62 BOSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 

as we now see it, was constructed by iim, or its red predecessor was made 
over and added to until the present result was attained. 

Further west, on the south side of the road, is the substantial home of 
Joel Lee. Here, in the log house days, came "Squire" John Wade, a 
Connecticut gentleman of the most approved stock. He was, in addition 
to his farming, a shoemaker, perhaps one of the first in the locality. He 
certainly displayed taste in the location of his house, near the Rose and 
Wolcott road ; but they had to bring their water from the spring, under the 
hill to the southwest. Mr. Wade's wife was Eunice Olmstead, whose 
relatives we have heretofore noted as living south of Wolcott. Like many 
of the early settlers, he had numerous children. Perhaps I shall not name 
them all, but there were : William, who, having married Angeline Lyon, 
went to Cattaraugus county ; Jesse, who married Permelia, sister of Dr. 
Van Ostrand, of the Valley, and went west also ; Willis G. married Juliette 
Closs, a sister of Harvey and "Ham" Closs, and, after securing quite a 
property as a pension agent, died childless, in 1854, aged thirty-three ; 
John, who, from accident and medicine, was a hopeless cripple, and passed 
the latter part of his life with his cousin, Dudley ; Eliza, who married 
George Fairbanks and went west, and Eunice, who became the wife of 
Josiah Upson, a member of one of the oldest families in Huron. As his 
wife she became the mother of Mrs. Sarah Andrus, Carroll H., Homer J., 
William and Frank Upson. Dudley Wade, a nephew, and already men- 
tioned, passed his boyhood in the family of John Wade. After selling this 
farm, "Squire " Wade lived for a while on the Deacon Lyon place, south of 
the Valley, but finally both he -and his wife made their homes with Dudley 
Wade, and in his house died, Mr. Wade, Dec. 24, 1840, aged sixty-five ; 
Mrs. Wade, Jan. 22, 1847, aged sixty-eight. They are buried in the Dis- 
trict No. 7 burial ground. 

Lyman Lee followed on the Wade farm, and here passed many years of 
a long and valuable life. To him we owe the fine house, with its com- 
manding outlook; but his son, Joel, arranged the farm buildings as they 
now are, the barns originally being on the north side of the road. Lyman 
Lee was a Vermonter, coming to Rose from Brooklyn in that state. There 
were four brothers — Alfred, John, Joel N. and Lyman Lee — all at one 
time in this town. They were at first nearer the Valley on the west. 
Alfred, who came first, at one time owned the Elijah Osborn place. He 
built a saw-mill on the stream which marked the course of Adams' ditch. 
He sold out and went to Ohio. The other three brothers were interested 
in a brick-yard, just west of the Valley and near the canal. John Lee we 
have already mentioned. Joel N. lived north of the Valley, and was the 
father of Mrs. Chas. S. Wright. All these brothers were exemplary men, 
and were among the first and most prominent members of the Methodist 
Church. Lyman was twice married. His first wife, Mary Champion, died 



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in Vermont. She wa.s the mother of Serotia, who died unmarried, and is 
buried in the Ellinwood burial ground ; also of Chester, who once lived on 
the Wickwire farm. By his second wife, Betsey Barnes, Lyman Lee had 
Mary, who married Washington Ellinwood, and died years ago ; Joel and 
Clarinda, who has been named as the wife of Milton Town. Both Lyman 
Lee and his wife died in 1873, and at nearly the same age ; he having been 
born in 1785, she, in 1786. They are buried in the Ellinwood inclosure. 
Fron) this epitaph, "Mary, wife of Joel Lee, died February 28th, 1855, 
aged ninety-three years, eight months," upon a stone near at hand, I con- 
clude that Mr. Lee's mother accomi^anied him on his migration, and that 
Joel must have been a family name ; we thus seeing three generations of the 
prtenomen. In our account of the Town district, we mentioned Mary, 
daughter of Silas and Polly Town, as the wife of Joel Lee, who was born 
before his parents left Vermont, coming to Rose when an infant. They 
lived for many years in the stone house, a quarter of a mile further west, 
and here their children — Alice and Clifford — were born. The former, a 
beautiful girl, died in 1876; Clifford, in 1881. He had married Eva Dodds 
only a few months l)efore his death. In this part of the town, there is no 
more thoroughly equipped farm than Mr. Lee's, and the writer has a v.ivid 
recollection of the fertility of some of the fields, when he and Uriah Marsh, 
in ante-bellum days, assisted in garnering the crops. A creamery near 
the house sends out butter of the choicest kind. Just under the hill is a 
watering trough, where the traveler may quench both his own thirst and 
that of his horse, with the purest and coolest water from the spring in the 
field to the south. In former times, a road crossed from the east and west 
way, next south, running just east of the spring and along the edge of the 
hill, but when further settlements were made to the west this road was given 
up and the one west of Linus Osgood's was opened. It is worthy of note 
that near the spring, in the early part of the century, was a log house (such 
houses then sprung up much like mushrooms), in which lived the usual 
routine of wood choppers, the Bedouins of those days. Here, Samuel 
Osborn informs me, occurred the only death from cholera in the town. The 
occupant had been down to Galen, where his sou died of the pestilence. 
Returning to his own hut, he speedily died of the same dread disease. 

The last house on this road, belonging to the district, is the one now 
occupied by Henry Decker. The first resident whom I can find was Elder 
Smith, a Baptist preacher. After him came Valorous Ellinwood, the father 
of Valorous E., who married Elnora Seelye, and now lives south of the 
Valley. The Ellinwood family is one of the oldest in the town, but a full 
account of it must be reserved till we reach the district next west. 
Nehemiah Seelye followed, but him and his family we have discussed in 
our account of the No. 7 district. Very likely there have been other 
occupants, but the details I cannot give. Henry Decker we have met 



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before in District No. 5, as the husband of Mary Deady. Mr. D. is a native 
of Dutchess county. Their sons were James and John. The latter Icept 
for some years the hotel in North Rose and died in the fall of 1886. James 
is in business in Eustis, Nebraska. 

From this point our boys and girls went eastward in search of knowledge, 
and the children who obtained their rudiments of learning, for many years, 
at Stewart's Corners, knew what it was to walk. To some of them it was 
a good two miles' walk every day. From the next house the children, like 
the starry empire, westward took their course and sought their education 
in the Valley. 

We must now retrace our steps to the point near which our lately 
traversed road began. Almost facing this road there was, until a few 
years ago, a blacksmith shop, whence rang, early and late, the 
merry sound of hammer and anvil. Here, in 1844, came Simeon J. Van 
Antwerp from Eensselaer county ; another Dutch settler. He bought an 
acre of land of James Stewart, put up his shop and house, and was 
accounted one of the very best smiths in Eose. Visions of that shop will 
ever be vivid in my fancy. Here the boys of the neighborhood rode their 
fathers' horses, and what might have been an hour of most restful ease 
became one of torture, through being compelled to switch flies while the 
blacksmith renewed the shoes for the hoofs. That old horse-tail switch, 
with its wooden handle, must ever hold a place in memory. In shape like 
a cat-o' -nine-tails, while it brought comfort to the steed, it was to the boy 
swinging it as heavy as a flail. Any falling off in zeal on his part, thereby 
causing the least restiveness on the part of the horse, brought down upon 
his head all sorts of objurgations from the irate mechanic. What a hard 
time for the boy ! He wanted to hear all the gossip that the loungers were 
distributing ; he very much wished to see just how the smith's apprentice 
was making nails and shoes, and he may even have had a little pounding 
of his own to do at the vise or on the spare anvil ; but those cursed flies 
must be switched. With keen eye, he must detect every vagrant buzzer 
and thus prevent any movement adding to the workman's labor. If screen 
doors had been invented in those days, and blacksmiths could have been 
persuaded to use them, how much happiness might have been added to the 
life of that greatly abused individual, the boy! The old blacksmith shop, 
located at the four corners, has had its day. Modern machine-made shoes 
and nails have driven it out of existence, and where, as in Longfellow's 
blacksmith, 

" You could hear him swing his heavy sledge , 

With measured beat and slow," 

now only cinders and slag remain to mark the site of patient, toilful 
industry. Mr. Van Antwerp died in 186.3, aged sixty-seven. His wife 
had preceded him into the spirit land in 1857, at the age of fifty-seven. 



EOSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 65 

Both Mr. Van Antwerp and his wife, who was Elizabeth Veley, were born 
in Schaghticoke, Eensselaer Co. Whether the irritation incident to the 
spelling and pronouncing of the name of their native town had anything to 
do with their removal, I am unable to state, but to ordinary mortals the 
cause would seem sufficient. Their children, eight in all, were born in 
Eensselaer county. They were : Ann, who married Morgan Dunham, 
both of whom are dead ; Daniel, a blacksmith like his father, married 
Margaret Veley and lives in West Butler ; Jane is the wife of Elijah 
Osborn, of the Valley ; Caroline became Mrs. Perry Barber, and resides in 
Delta, Delta Co., Colorado; Lovina married Edwin Van Antwerp, from 
Troy, N. T. ; John married Emeline Scott, of Butler, and both sleep the 
last sleep in the Hubbard burial ground of Butler, the flag over John's 
grave indicating that, in war times, he responded to the call of duty ; 
Eleanor Maria married Joseph H. Hemans, and lives in Neosha, Newton Co. , 
Missouri; Lewis H., the youngest sou, died unmarried, at the age of 
twenty-eight. Following Simeon Van Antwerp, his son-in-law, Edwin, 
who married Lovina, held the place for a number of years. He had added 
to it considerably and had a very pleasant and fertile farm. He died in 
1879, aged forty-three. His wife resides in the Valley. His children are : 
Dell, Evelyn, (Ray died early), John Henry and Edwin Elbert. The place 
is now owned by John Shear, who married Henrietta M., daughter of 
Stephen Collins. Their children are : Jessie, who married Thomas Gun- 
ning of Wilmington, 111. ; Judson, married Delia Veach, and is in Shaw- 
ville. 111. ; Arthur, married Mary Joyce of Illinois and lives in Detroit ; 
Stephen and Thaddeus. (Mr. Shear, who came to this town from Seneca 
Co., died Nov. 5, 1891, aged sixty-eight years. Stephen, who served three 
years in the United States navy, is now in possession, having married 
Maggie Powers, of Butler. Thaddeus served two years in the regular 
army, and is now in Pasadena, California, and with him his mother will 
make her home.) 

Next west is the place held by Charles Ullrich. The latter was a good 
soldier in Company A, of the 9th Heavy Artillery. Members of that 
company will recall "Charlie" as a man always ready to do his duty; 
but the hot firing down in front of Petersburg, one day, drew from him 
this speech, which was taken down by our reporter on the spot, "Uncle 
Sam might get pretty rich out of dis business if he vas a mind to, for I 
would give more as one thousand dollars to get out of dis, if I had it." 
But Charles came home with his regiment like a man, having been made a 
corporal for bravery at Monocacy. He was from Hesse-Darmstead, a 
Hessian who came to help, not to destroy, as did the Hessians of the 
Eevolution. He had served in the army of his own country, knew what 
fighting was, and to avoid further unrequited service there, he had come 
to this country in 1851. His wife is Catharine Stopfel, and their children 
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66 EOSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 

are : Charles H., of Wolcott; Sarah J. Tracey of Weedsport, and Irving 
T., at home. Ullrich has had many predecessors, the first occupant, 
perhaps, being a "Weir, who built a log house. Then came Mr. Freeman, 
father of Charles and George F., referred to in the District No. 7 letters. 
Thomas Smith lived here, too. He was a cooper by trade, but he was 
known familiarly as "Honey" Smith, from his wonderful faculty of finding 
bee trees. For many years an old maple stood on the farm of Dudley 
Wade, readily recognized as the " bee tree." This " Honey " had found out, 
and driving pegs into its side, he easily climbed to the orifice whence toll 
could be taken from the honey makers. A man named Sovereign lived 
here, too, and I am told the prefix "old" was usually applied to his 
cognomen, the fact that. Mormon like, he maintained two wives at the 
same time not contributing to his popularity. I am not sure but a Galen 
Gardner lived here also for a time. Then came Isaac Doughty, who passed 
the property to one Boardman, and he to the present proprietor. The 
house, I have heard, was erected just to the east of the old blacksmith 
shop and was afterward moved to its present site. 

We next reach the farm of the Osborns. John O., we have already 
found as a builder of log houses, on the Valley road. The first one is the 
home of Samuel Osborn ; but the most of his time is passed in the next 
abode, that of his son. I believe that John O. found a log house here, 
built by a Mr. Ward, who here had an ashery, where was made potash, 
which, in the early days, was a prominent article of commerce. It was 
one of the very first houses consumed in this vicinity. The present framed 
house was built by the first Osborn, who died in 1853, aged nearly seventy- 
three years. His wife, Elizabeth, who, after his death, had married George 
Doughty, died in 1860, in her seventy- first year. Samuel Osborn succeeded, 
and few men in town are better known. His wife was Elizabeth Oaks, who 
died in 1885, aged fifty-eight. She was a daughter of the family living 
further west. (Though past four score years, Mr. Osborn is still hale and 
hearty. ) 

The next house is that of Samuel Osborn, Jr. Some rods back of it is 
an old log house, standing by a well, which doubtless marks the site of a 
spring in the years agone. To the best of my knowledge, it is the very 
last remnant of early architecture in these parts. It, too, was built by John 
Osborn. In the house of Samuel Osborn, Jr., his uncle Isaac was killed by 
lightning, in 1854, at the age of thirty-five years. Mr. Osborn' s wife is 
Ida M. Ballon, a native of Oswego county. They have five children : 
Mamie, Maud, Louella, Corinne and Lizzie. 

We find our next house on the south side of the road, the home to which 
Lampson Allen took his bride, and here he died in 1878, aged forty-two. 
He left two children — Leona, who married Frank Henderson, son of 
Eustace, of the northern part of the district, who lives on the farm, and 



ROSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 67 

Florence, who is with her mother in Clyde. Lampson Allen was one of 
the best of the young men who, thirty years ago, taught school in the dis- 
tricts adjacent, and many men and women of Eose, now nearing middle 
age, will recall his pleasant yet firm way in the school room. He was a 
capable farmer and a good citizen. A log house preceded Allen's structure, 
but I am ignorant as to the builder. It may have been a Green, but I am 
not certain. (The Henderson children are Helen and Gertrude.) 

The western confines are reached when we come to the Oakes farm. 
Nelson Crisler lives here now; but the place belongs to the family still. 
Alonzo Mace was the first settler, and after him came Charles G. Oakes, 
from Vermont. His wife was Sally S. Hills, and their children numbered 
seven — five boys and two girls. Of these, Joseph and Henry are dead ; 
Samuel is in Michigan ; Mary married Harry Valentine, and lives in the 
Valley ; Seth married Mary Lowell, of South Butler, and went to Wiscon- 
sin. (He has since died.) The writer remembers him as one of his early 
instructors in Butler Center. Charles G. Oakes died in 1883, aged eighty- 
one. His widow is still living in the Valley. (As tenants, John Kellogg 
and wife, met in the Butler portion of No. 7, have been upon this place 
for the past five years.) 

Coming back to Stewart's corners, and turning to the west, with the 
exception of an old tenant house on the Stewart farm, we find nothing in 
the shape of a house till we come to that of Alonzo Chaddock. Reviewing 
the past history of this farm, there is presented a very confusing array of 
possessors. The order may be wrong, but, as owners or occupants, I find 
the names of Murray, E. A. Aldrich, Zenas Fairbanks, who married a 
Wade, John Lee, Samuel Stevens, Darwin Norton, and many others. 
Hiram Sprague, whose wife, a Calkins, was aunt to Mrs. George Seelye, 
came here from Chenango county, but afterward returned. There was also 
a Donaldson once in possession. It is possible that the above Murray was 
John N. If so, he had sons, Eron and Halsey, and was tax collector in 
1811. It is safe to say that most of the foregoing went to the boundless 
west, so often named. Alonzo Chaddock, now the owner, is the son of 
William, one of the very first settlers in town. His wife is Betsey Elwood, 
of Aurelius, in which town, I believe, Mr. C. was also born. He has six 
children — John and Marion, both married, and Belle, Dora, Adelle and 
Eva are at home. (Mr. Chaddock died in 1890. Belle married Mr. Burt 
Sours, of Huron, and with him manages the farm ; Dora is Mrs. Leonard 
Smith ; Adelle and Eva are school teachers.) 

Just over the hill is an old house, long used for tenants, and, I think, 
belonging to Mr. Chaddock, in which once lived Roger Barnum, a brother 
of Mrs. Benjamin Seelye. He was something of a character in his way. 
He was a great Bible reader and expounder. Perhaps there was only one 
thing that he loved better than a Bible exposition, and that was rum. 



68 EOSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 

Fondness for the latter article led to the fight with Peter Aldrich, whereby 
he lost his eye, and his devotion to the former gave him a measure of 
respect in the community. His wife was Ann Wheeler. They had several 
children, viz. : Charles, Van Rensselaer and Mary Ann, who married 
Abram Wood. All went west. What will migratory people do when the 
west, completely filled, affords no further place for them to ramble about 
in ? 

Returning to the corners and going north, we pass over a bridge which 
spans a small stream, the only trout brook in the neighborhood. Having 
its source only a short distance away, in a large spring east of Mr. 
Stewart's house, it affords a cool and shady home for the speckled beauties. 
Up the hill to our left we find a barn, the property of Mrs. Lawson Mun- 
sell, received from her father. The place was taken from the land office by 

Mr. Graves. Several owners followed till we find Abiah Blaine in possess- 
ion. He sold to the canal company, whence it passed to Mr. Watkins and 
to Mrs. M. The log house long since disappeared. ( Mr. Munsell has 
recently built here a tenant house. ) The Blaines were from Orange county, 
town of Warwick, where the father was born, on the 17th of June, 1799, and 
the mother, who was Fanny Baird before marriage, August 4, 1800. They 
were married December 28, 1820. Mr. Blaine learned the wagon maker's 
trade in Newburg on the Hudson, and worked at the same while a resident 
of Orange county, where three of his children were born. In 1826, Mr. 
B., in true emigrant style, took up his march across the country, having 
two wagons and three horses. On ISTovember 26th he reached the home of 
Mrs. B.'s brother, Abiah F. Baird, whose home was so long known as the 
Center place. In the following spring, the family occupied the log house 
just north of Stewart's brook. He bought of Parmer Lovejoy, father of 
Silas and William. In 1837, Mr. Blaine sold, as we have seen, to the 
Sodus Canal Company, and bought of OrriiuMpoj-e in_Biitlerj near Whisky 
Hill, where he died September 23, 1847. His wife, still active in body 
and clear in mind, lives with her son, William, in Illinois. This son, 
William, who married a Center, lived on the Butler farm till 1866, when 
he sold to Hudson Wood, and moved to Illinois, where he is now living 
in Fairbury. He has two sons — Theron, married, and Nathaniel, unmar- 
ried, and at home. His only daughter, Ida W., is the wife of Henderson 
Fugate. Since moving west, Mr. Blaine has followed to some extent his 
well-known calling of singing master. In a letter to the writer, he recalls, 
graphically, his recollections of the old school-house, and of one master, 
George Seelye, who taught there in 1835. Abiah Blaine had other children, 
viz.: Sarah Jane, who married Henry Lovejoy. They went to Grundy 
county, Illinois, where she died January 28, 1887 ; Mary Elizabeth died 
in Auburn in 1836, and is buried in the Lovejoy burial ground. These 
three were born in Orange county. Three were born in the old log house. 



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Cynthia, who married Geo. B. Howland, also went to Grundy county, 
where she died in 1870 ; Paulina, who died in Butler in 184:2 ; Christina, 
who married, in Illinois, Wm. Zeek, and died in Ottawa in 1866. The 
youngest child, Abiah N., was born in Butler. He went west also, and 
there died in 1885. 

The adjoining place on the north was taken from the land office by 
Epaphras Wolcott, and after many changes came into the hands of 
Elisha Brockway. The latter has a fine peach orchard, and a large field 
of black raspberries, thus entering upon what bids fair to be one of the chief 
farming interests of the town. In the old land book of Osgood Church, 
,■ Jonathan_Wilson was entered as taking the south part of lot No. 140, 
where Eustace Henderson is now, April 3, 1811, fifty acres, at $4 per acre. 
This he must have passed over to the Hendersons, for December 29th of 
the following year, he is put down as taking thirty-one acres from lot 161, 
at $4.25 per acre, near where Brockway now lives. Here, on the knoll in 
the northeast corner of the garden, the Wilson log house was planted. 
Jonathan was born in Woodstock, Connecticut, and his wife was Damaris 
Munsell, a sister of Dorman, who lived next, to the north. He came to 
these parts first in 1810, stopping in Wolcott village. From Eose, he 
went to Huron, thence to Phelps in 1824 ; came back to Galen in 1830, 
and there died, in the same year, a young man, being only forty-eight 
years old, worn out by pioneer work. His wife survived till 1848. Both 
are buried in the Collins burial ground. They had numerovrs children, as 
Clarissa, who married Stephen Collins ; Jonathan, to be met in the Valley; 
Damaris, the wife of Arthur Dougan, to be met in the Jeffers district ; 
Ephraim B., west of the Valley ; Ralph, who died in Waterloo ; Henrietta, 
the wife of Joseph Andrus, now in Huron ; Fortescue, who went into the 
army during the War, and is now buried in the Collins burial ground ; and 
lastly, Walter, who lives in Castleton, having married Louise Whitney. 
( Mr. Brockway now lives in Ovid, and the place is in the possession of 
Mr. George Stewart, late of the corners.) 

Our road, by which we may reach Wolcott, bears off to the east, and just 
before reaching a direct turn to the east, we find the home of Lawson 
Munsell. To this place, as the original owner, came Dorman Munsell in 
1813. He was from the east, and came with an older brother, Silas, who 
settled further north. His wife was Jerusha Lovejoy, of the family living 
near. His oldest son, Dorman, married Laiara Mason, and lives in the 
adjoining district west ; Emeline is the wife of Orlando Ellinwood, and 
resides in the Valley ; Mary married Byron Wells, and moved to Spring- 
ville, Erie county ; Lawson married Lydia Watkins, and has had children 
as follows : Will, who married Florence Soule for his first wife, and had 
been for several years in the map and book business in New York, has 
taken Ida Hamilton for his second wife, and, as a banker, now resides in 



70 ROSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 

Spearville, Kansas (now in Chicago); D. Levern married Emma Falker- 
son, and is a railroad engineer in Chicago ; Lucien married Mary Housel, 
and is in Kansas ; the only daughter, Maggie E., is at home. The Mun- 
sells were of the very best Connecticut families of English descent. Their 
home in Connecticut was ancient "Windsor. Dorman was born in 1788 
and died in 1853. He is buried in the Lovejoy neighborhood. Dorman's 
brothers, Elnathan and Silas, went to Michigan, and there reared large 
families. Lawson Munsell and his family have long been members of the 
Methodist Episcopal Churches of Eose and Wolcott. 

Going further north, and almost facing the road we have been traveling, is 
the home of the Hendersons, long identified with the vicinity. It fronts 
upon an east and west road, and is the only house on the street belonging to 
this district. Eli Ward took up the farm, and cleared three acres of land, 
selling, in 1817, his log house and his improvements to Gideon Henderson, 
a thrifty young man from New Hartford, Conn. He made his first trip 
from his native town to these parts a-foot. What grit had our ancestors ! 
Mr. H. was another of those New Hartford people who, early in the 
century, made what was then Wolcott their home. The town of Eose owes 
much to their sterling thrift and honesty. It is safe to say that no l^etter 
blood ever came from the land of steady habits than the family we are now 
considering. Gideon was long a family name, and our Eose resident was 
the youngest son of John, the fourth generation, he having a brother 
Gideon, and we find one, at least, of the name in every generation preced- 
ing. He was born in 1789, and married in 1813 the widow of Sherman 
Goodwin. Her maiden name was Deborah Benham. He was by trade a 
blacksmith, but the most of his life he was a farmer. He died in 1869, 
his wife surviving until 1876. Their first child, Evelina, was born in 
Connecticut, and became, in 1836, the wife of Harvey Closs, and thereby 
the mother of Frank Henderson Closs, one of the most substantial of the 
citizens of Eose ; George Wellington, was born in Eose and married, in 
1815, Lucy Ann Smith, daughter of Judge Smith of the east part of the 
district, and a sister of Chauncey Smith, late of Wolcott. He is uqw a 
farmer in Hartland, Waukesha county, Wis. The youngest child, Eustace, 
has always lived on the old place. His wife is Sarah Ann, daughter of 
the late Jonathan Post of Butler, and, by her mother, grand-daughter of 
Daniel Eoe, 1st, one of the original settlers of the town. They have four 
children, one of whom, Franklin E., has already been mentioned as the 
husband of Leona Allen of the western part of the district : Thomas G., 
who married Georgie Waring ; Daniel W., living in Syracuse ; and Sarah 
Evelina, at home. The Henderson homestead was built more than sixty 
years ago. May it see at least another sixty years in the possession of the 
Hendersons. Mrs. Gideon Henderson had a son, Sherman, by her first 
husband. This son married Eebecca Brown of Wolcott. He died in 
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Our way through this district takes us to all points of the compass. We 
must now follow our road a short distance to the east, and there shall take 
the first turn to the north. A few rods further and at our right is the 
Salisbury place, with the barns on the west side of the road. This farm 
was taken from the land office by George Steward, familiarly called 
"Posey" by his neighbors, on account of his liking for floriculture, a 
weakness (if such it be) that we might wish many farmers to possess. 
After Steward came Deacon Miner, and then John Salisbury from Troy, 
Bradford county, Penn. It ought to be stated that very soon after leaving 
the Henderson place, we entered the town of Butler. 

The next homestead is at the right, and is that of Isaac B. Jones, whom 
we first met in our account of the Seelye district. He is the son of Irving 
Jones, who purchased this farm in 1859. Its history is as follows : 
Wooster Henderson, an elder brother of Gideon, came here in 1809, and 
made a settlement, taking the land originally. He had little but his axe 
when he first came ; but after making a log house, he went back to Con- 
necticut, whence he returned in 1811 with his wife, Vicey, who was the 
daughter of Col. Moses Kellogg, of Hartford. He died in 1868, his wife in 
1871. They had a family of eight children, two of whom — Mary and Grove 
— were born in Connecticut, the remaining six in Butler. Mary married 
Luke Blodgett and went to Michigan ; Morgan and Francis J. are farmers 
in Butler ; Vicey married Daniel Eoe, of Butler, who died in the past year, 
i. e., 1887; Sophia became the wife of J. Seymour Roe, brother of the 
above Daniel, and both were grandsons of the first settler, Daniel ; Laura 
is the wife of the Eev. Daniel Davis, of the Central New York Conference 
ef the Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1836, Wooster Henderson sold to 
the Sodus Canal Co., when followed a line of tenant farmers, till its sale to 
Jones in 1859. Mr. Jones built the lime kiln on the west side of the road 
in 1860. With the exception of passing repairs, etc., the place looks much 
as it did thirty years ago. Mr. Jones' wife is Eliza Lovejoy of the adjacent 
district. 

Going a very little further north, just beyond the turn to the west, we 
shall find another lime kiln, the first built in these parts, viz., in 1855, by 
Alonsworth St. John. It now belongs to the Walker farm, and is, as we 
must readily see, a valuable accessory to the neighborhood. Freshly 
burned lime works into a farmers needs in many ways. Just across on 
the corner is a small house, whose successive occupants, lime burners and 
others would be as difficult of enumeration as would the guests for a term 
of years in a given room in a hotel. (Imported lime and cement have 
quite destroyed the utility of the local kiln.) 

Journeying down the west road a little way we are again in Rose, and 
we find at our left the home of Augustus Lovejoy. This place was first 
taken from the land office by one David Nichols in 1816. He retained the 



72 K09E NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 

same after clearing the land and building a house and barn till 
the death of his wife, in 1831. He then sold to his brother, 
John, who retained it for seven or eight years. Chester Lee, met before 
in this district, held it for two years. David Brink was the next owner, 
from whom it passed to one Forbes, who kept it till 1868, when he sold to 
David Green. After eight years, Eustace Henderson became the owner. 
After eleven years, he sold to Halsey Smith, in whose name the farm of 
something over fifty acres now stands. Mr. Lovejoy is a son-in-law 
of Mr. Smith. 

We reach the western limit on this road in the farm of Burkhart Hurter. 
This is a part of the Ferris lot and was cleared up by John Drury. Mr. 
McFarland, a local preacher of the Methodist denomination, probably 
built the house. He sold to Jacob Bell in 1862. The present owner 
bought from the heirs of the above. Mr. H. and his wife, Theresa Tait, 
are natives of Germany. Their son Charles was met in No. 7 ; Ella Hur- 
ter is Mrs. Eugene Akerman of Little Falls ; Sophia was killed at the age 
of seven years, in 1863, by the power rod of a threshing machine ; Mary. 
Mr. Hurter was a soldier in the 90th N. Y. 

Again must we return to our corners, and this time journey toward the 
east. The first place we find is that of Chester EUinwood. Here was 
made the very first settlement in the district, if not in the town. Alpheus 
Harmon came from Ballston Spa, Saratoga Co., as early as 1805. His 
house was near the large spring, southeast of the present mansion. Of 
him I am able to state only that he went to Cattaraugus Co., having sold 
to Abiah F. Baird. Mr. B. was a native of Warwick, Orange Co., N. Y., 
where he was born September 3d, 1792. He married Lany Farshee, a 
native of New Jersey, born July 20th, 1800. From Eose they moved to 
Montezuma, where Mr. Baird died July 18th, 1848. Mrs. B. died Novem- 
ber 21th, 1868. There were eight children, of whom Mary Jane married 
John Morrison, and died near Adrian, Mich., in 1868 ; Catharine, the wife 
of Philip Martin, lives in New Hope, Cayuga Co.; John F. married Mary 
Hicks and died at Walnut Grove, Minn., 1887 ; Sarah, as the wife of A. J. 
Sanders, lives in Auburn ; David F., who married Isabel Green, resides in 
Fentonville, Mich.; Thomas B. married Mary Ellen Bachman and lives in 
Seneca Falls ; Martin V. married Cynthia French and dwells in Dexter, 
Mich.; William B. married Caroline Emorick, and both died in Auburn in 
1875. Baird transferred to Moses Wisner, who was a native of Orange 
county, N. Y. — born August 24th, 1767. His wife was Dorotha Howell, 
who was born May 29th, 1776, in Southampton, Long Island. Her family 
has been identified with the island for two hundred and fifty years. Mr. 
and Mrs. Wisner were married in Florida, Orange Co. They resided for 
a time in Amity, the same county, where all their children, save Elizabeth, 
were born. Afterward they moved to the Huron part of the town of Wol- 



EOSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 73 

cott and thence to Eose. We have already seen them on the Lounsbury 
farm in District No. 7. From Rose they went to Monroe county, where 
Mr. Wisner died. His wife eventually died in Rochester, at the home of 
her daughter, Mrs. Shepard. Of their eleven children, John W., Mehit- 
able, Moses and Amanda died in infancy; Temperance, who became Mrs. 
Shepard, is now living in Penn Yan ; Sarah is the widow of Austin Roe, of 
Butler, and lives in Wolcott ; Charlotte, the widow of Brewster Roe, lives 
in Penfield ; Elizabeth, widow of Willis Roe, died in 1883 ; James T. died 
about 1875 ; Jesse O. is living in Brantford, Canada, while Charles H. died 
in 18.55, in Penfield. A noteworthy fact in connection with this family is 
that three of the surviving sisters married three brothers. Roe, of Butler. 
The family was noted, among all acquaintances, for the exceeding good 
nature of all its members. Then came Nathaniel Center, who dwelt here, 
or in this vicinity, till his death, in 1845, at the age of fifty-six, leaving a 
family of three boys and as many daughters. It should be stated that Mr. 
Center and family left the place for two years, occupying the stone house 
farm to the northeast, in the town of Butler, where he died. Mr. Center 
was born in Washington county, N. Y., in 1788, where, in 1828, he married 
Mary Dewey, who was born in Massachusetts in 1805. They began their 
married life in Washington county, residing there about nine years, and 
there their first three children were born. It was in the winter of '36-7 
that they came to this town, and fitted into this highly respectable neigh- 
borhood. Here three more children were born. After Mr. Center's death 
his widow returned to the Eose farm and continued there till 1866, when 
she removed to Ottawa, 111., where three of her children had preceded her, 
and there she died in 1885. Of the children, the eldest, Mary Helen, mar- 
ried William Blaine, of Butler, in 1851, living now in Fairbury, Livingston 
Co., 111., and having three children. Mr. Blaine was one of the most noted 
singing masters who ever sang the scale in these towns. The Blaines have 
already been sketched. The second child, Hallet C, married Harriet Hall, 
of Huron, and with their two children resides in Pittwood, Iroquois Co., 
111. The third, John H., went to Illinois in 1856, there marrying Sarah 
Price. He has one son and lives near Ottawa, LaSalle Co. Dorr D. 
migrated in 1858, but returned to New York to marry an old schoolmate, 
Harriet, daughter of Solomon Allen. They have four children and are 
residents of Ottawa. Eliza D. went to Illinois in 1861 and lives in Ottawa. 
Harriet I. followed her brother and sisters in 1860, and became the wife of 
C. B. Pendleton, of Grand Ridge, LaSalle Co. Our Centers were relatives 
of the Butler family of the same name, Leonard, the father of Ganesvoort 
and Gipson Center being an elder brother of Nathaniel. Charles Allen, 
son of Solomon AUen, came next in order and lived here some years. As 
we have already seen, his home is now in Wolcott. Successive owners 
have been Jotham Post, of Butler, Wm. Southwick, Wm. Niles and the 



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present proprietor, Chester Ellinwood. Mr. Ellinwood has been one of the 
few democratic supervisors whom the town has had. His childhood was 
passed on the farm now owned by Ensign Wade. His wife is Mary E. 
Phillips of Newark. Their first child, Irene P., died in 1884, aged four- 
teen years. Their children, living, are Mary Louise, John C, Eobert and 
Chester E. 

The next house, on the north side of the road, was built by Dell Jones. 
After him it has had owners or occupants as follows : George Atkinson, 
Chas. Reed, Chas. Whitney, George Eote, Edward Boon and Wm. Pitts. 

On the south side of the way is the home of Henry Benjamin, built by 
himself. He has already received mention in our account of the Town 
district. The stream, close at hand, flows from the spring near which 
Alpheias Harmon located his log house. 

We now come to the place long associated with the name of Smith. It 
was orginally taken up by Luther Wheeler about 1810. His wife, Lucy 
Eundell, was a sister of Mrs. Joseph Wade. They were from Fairfield, 
Ct. They had three daughters and six sons. The youngest, Elizabeth, 
married John Harmon, son of Alpheus, and lived where Benjamin is. 
Another daughter, Anna, was Mrs. Ransom Ward. They went to Catta- 
raugus Co. The name, too, of Samuel Miller is connected with a part of the 
farm, also that of widow Starke. It would seem that the Smiths held what 
afterward formed two farms, those north and south of the road. Chauncey 
Smith, or, as he was generally called. Judge Smith, was born May 4th, 
1785, in Suffield, Conn., and came to Butler, February, 1832. His wife 
was Priscilla Pinney. They lived here for many years, having a family 
noted for intelligence and worth. Judge S. died on the farm August 8th, 
1853. His wife died in Flint, Michigan, December 20th, 1877, at the age 
of eighty-six. They were most exemplary members of the Presbyterian 
Church in Rose. Their children were numerous. Matilda and Adeliza 
died in childhood, and are buried with their parents in the Collins burial 
ground. Cordelia married Joseph Crawford and is dead ; Ruth is the wife 
of Rev. Thomas Wright, of Fenton, Michigan ; Melissa, the widow of Rev. 
Milton Wells, resides in Jamestown, Dakota; Lucy Ann married- George 
W. Henderson, of the north part of the same school district, and lives now 
in Hartland, Wisconsin ; two other daughters, Sally and Lydia, are dead ; 
Chauncey married Martha Wilder, and for many years was the most suc- 
cessful merchant in Wolcott ; he is now in Dakota — a railroad contractor ; 
his home is in Jameston, No. Dakota; Thaddeus took Frank Kingsbury 
for his wife, and is a resident of Flint, Michigan (Died in 1889) ; Silas 
N. is dead. To the Smiths succeeded one Lampson, then Silas Lovejoy, 
Henry Benjamin and John Weeks, who, though still residing there, has 
sold to Welthea Talcott, so the two farms are again united. 

Our last residence in this direction is the home of Miss Welthea Talcott, 
whose parents bought the Elder Daniel Waldo farm. The elder and his 



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SOD, Egbert, had bought of Chauncey Smith. This was in the time when 
clergymen tilled farms as well as preached. Daniel Waldo's history would 
tell us almost the whole story of the early ecclesiastical history of west 
ern New York. A native of Connecticut, he was graduated at Yale in 
1788, and from that date to the time of his death was constant in his 
efforts for good. He was for several years settled over the Presbyterian 
Church in the Valley. He lived to be more than a hundred years old, 
dying in 1864, in Syracuse. I heard him preach in Fulton in 1863, he then 
being more than a century old. He was blind, but when he was led into 
the pulpit he had no trouble in proving that it was not a case of the blind 
leading the blind in any harmful sense. For several years he was the 
oldest survivor of the graduates of Yale. I have understood that he 
married ray great grand-parents, Deacon Shepard and wife, and that he 
preached at the funeral of the deacon. From Elder Waldo the farm 
passed to Thomas Forbes, who sold to George Chipman, from whom Mr. 
Talcott bought in 1851. Both Mr. T. and his wife, who was a Coleman, 
were born in Coventry, Connecticut. They are both dead and are buried in 
Huron. Mrs. T. died April 7th, 1881, and Mr. T. June 9tb, 1885. Two 
sons and a daughter are buried with them. This family maintained an ex- 
cellent standing in a neighborhood famous for the Christian character of its 
people. The sole survivor of the family, Miss Welthea, holds the old 
farm, and the house, which is a brick one, was built by the Waldos. It 
is the only dwelling of this material in the vicinity. (Sold in 1888 to Mr. 
Mclntyre, of Eose.) 

As members of this district I ought to include the Freeman family, 
whose early home was just a little beyond that of Judge Smith. The father, 
Moses Fi-eeman, came from New Jersey, while his wife, Orinda, was 
the daughter of Timothy and Orinda Janes, of Vermont. Mrs. Janes died 
in this place in 1832, and was buried in the Collins burial ground, while Mr. 
Janes survived to a great age, dying in Illionis, at the home of his grand- 
son, George W. Freeman. The family afterward lived west of Mr. Van 
Antwerp's, as already stated. Mr. F. died in 1837. Of the children given 
to Mr. Freeman and wife, there were five boys and one girl. George W. 
went to Bloomington, Illinois, in 1855, and still resides there. It was at 
his home that his mother died in 1857. Charles A. married in Iowa, 
moved to Minnesota, and thence, twenty-five years ago, essayed the over- 
land route to the Pacific coast, and has ever since resided there, his home 
being in Portland, where he is cashier of the Oregon Eailway and Naviga- 
tion Company. In the account of District No. 7, he was mentioned as 
having passed several of the early years of his life in the home of Austin 
Roe. In 1886, passing through Portland, I sought him out, and giving 
him a letter sent by my father, I found him an exceedingly pleasant and 
affable gentleman. Timothy J., after the war, settled in Missouri, where 
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Eebellion. Moses, the youngest son, is married and living in Nebraska. 
The only daughter, Charlotte, married Alfred Williams, of Butler, and also 
lives in Nebraska. The last three of the sons served in the army 
during the War, all in Illinois regiments, and all served through except 
Ephraim, who died after about a year's service. Timothy came home with 
a captain's commission and a wound in the neck. Moses was not scratched, 
though he was in all the important campaigns from the first one in Missouri 
to the fall of Mobile. 

Facing the brick house we find the road with which we parted company, 
in our District No. 7 letters, when we left Martin Saxton's home. On this 
road are two houses belonging to No. 6 district. In the first dwells Daniel 
Evans, who came to these parts from Palmyra, and whose first wife was 
Calista Cornell; his second, Carrie Keisler, of Huron. This place also has 
changed owners frequently. The farm was originally a part of the Wood- 
ruff purchase, and here some of the family lived. Charles Allen bought of 
the Woodruffs. This Mr. Allen was a brother of the wives of Charles 
Sherman and Chester Ellinwood. He was himself a son of Ezra Allen, of 
Butler, and, through his mother, own cousin to the Kelloggs. I remember 
meeting, some years ago, at Patchogue, L. I., a son of this Charles Allen. 
The gentleman was a commission merchant in New York City, I think; but 
I shall not soon forget his enthusiasm over the old home on the confines of 
Butler. Charles Allen's wife was a Miss Leach, of Lyons, and to this 
place Mr. Allen moved finally, and died there. One son, Willard T., was 
in the army. After Allen, we find William Sherman on this farm. I am 
under the impression that we shall not find William again in our journey- 
ings, but this must be the sixth or seventh time that he has turned up in 
our peregrinations. Then came a Loveless, Newton Moore, Charles Smith. 
At some time in these years, during the sixties I believe, Jerome Davis 
held the farm. Jerome is a son of Paul Davis, noted in the history of 
these towns. His only sister was the first wife of Eron Thomas. His 
wife, Alice, is a daughter of Jotham Post, of Butler, and so, through her 
mother, related to the Roes of that town. (Martin Darling now occupies.) 

The very last house in the district is one now occupied by Nathan 
Loveless, son of Eansom Loveless, of Butler. This was the original site of 
the Woodruff home. The place was long held by the Benjamins, and was 
well known as the Benjamin farm. Just after the war Henry Marsh held 
it for a time. Whatever the character of the soil, there certainly are no 
better farms in Butler or Rose so far as convenience of location and freedom 
from hills are concerned. 

To him who passed any considerable part of his life in this town, all 
that pertains to any part of the Stewart district, even though it may run 
over into Butler, is interesting. I only regret that my sources of informa- 
tion have been so few that I could not give the minute description that I 
wished. 



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SCHOOL DISTRICT No. 9. 

(Nov. 15, 1888— Jan. 3, 1889.) 

This school district is known in Rose parlance as the Lovejoy neighbor- 
hood or the Lake district, not from its proximity to Lake Ontario, for that 
is ten miles away, bat from the fact that the school-house was built near the 
home of the Lake family. The name of Lovejoy is readily accounted for 
from the long residence of Parmer L. and his descendants in the immediate 
vicinity. We can make no better beginning than to give in detail the facts 
of this first comer's settlement and life. Parmer (I think it should be 
Palmer) Lovejoy was born in ShefBeld, Mass., and there lived until the 
beginning of the present century, when he came to our town as one of 
its pioneers. It was in 1812 that, with his oldest son, Silas, he made the 
long trip to these western wilds. The lots that he had purchased were 
originally taken up by one Chapman, a Connecticut man, who had married 
his wife in SheiHeld. He had made a start for this New York home, wheu 
the courage of his wife utterly failed. She had heard of bears, wolves and 
Indians, and she had no heart to brave the dangers before her. She 
wouldn't go, consequently her husband had to look about for some way 
out of the dilemma. He didn't wish to lose either his wife or his purchase, 
and so finally secured Mr. Lovejoy's possessions in exchange for the 
untilled acres in New York. Eli Ward, who had married a daughter of 
Lovejoy, was already in these parts, and the Wolcott family was here. In 
fact, it was " Jim " Wolcott who showed the new comer where his land 
lay. The farm was one mile long and two hundred rods wide, thus con- 
taining just four hundred acres. There were no roads, but winding 
through the land was a clear stream, having its fountain head near the old 
log house of Alpheus Harmon. In later years the creek, for its earlier 
course known as Stewart's, as it grows and gets into Huron, is put dowu 
as Mudge. On the north bank of this rivulet, between two unfailing- 
springs, the pioneers cleared away the trees and built a log bouse. It was 
not so great a matter to construct a house then as now. Helping hands 
were found even in this sparsely settled locality, and there was no occasion 
to build beyond the builder's means. Says one of the first settlers, "Do 
you know how they laid the floor of a log house ! " Of course I was 
entirely ignorant, till he, resuming, said : "They just took a basswood log 
and split it up into as thin sections as possible. Then they put down 
sleepers and cutting into these they put the floor down as even as they 
could. Then where the women would be most likely to stub their toes 
they evened the surface, somewhat, with an adze. A hole in the floor 
let us down into a small cavity where were stored potatoes, etc., while a 
ladder led up to the attic, where, if he weie not too tall, a man might 



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stand erect under the peak. Here were packed away the boys and girls of 
the family, and in those days they were more numerous than they are now." 
A line drawn from the present home of Norman Lovejoy to that of Alonzo 
Chaddock would pass very near the site of the old home. An old weather- 
worn beech tree stands nearly opposite on the south side of the creek. 
Only a few stones and a slight depression in the soil mark the site of this 
home in the wilderness. Eeturning to the Bay State, the father and son 
prepared to take their families to their new home. The father was an only 
son, though his father's, Timothy, family was a large one, there being 
nine daughters in it. Several of these, as we shall find, became migrants 
also. Parmer Lovejoy' s wife was Esther Butler, a fit consort for a man 
who had undertaken to level the forest and to break up the virgin soil. 
His own family was very large, there being in it seven boys and five girls. 
Of these one boy and one girl died in their old home. The oldest son was 
Silas, whom we have already seen as his father's companion in his first 
trip hither. Parmer, Jr., married Widow Dolly Sears, nSe Davenport, and 
lived for a time in Bristol, Cayuga county, then on the Brockway place. 
Afterward he was at the Furnace, town of Wolcott, and then went to 
Michigan, where he died about 1850. His children were Norton, Sally, 
Lucinda and Harvey Puffer, known among his associates as " Puff." The 
whole family had the Michigan fever. "William, the third son, married 
Sophia Kellogg, from Connecticut, and passed his life on the farm where 
now resides Thomas Henderson, half a mile northwest of Stewart's 
corners. From the primitive lo^ house his residence progressed to the 
commodious house now standing. His children were Henry, who took 
Sarah Blaine for his wife, and built and occupied for many years the house 
now held by Oliver Bush, just on the confines of the Stewart district ; as 
we have already seen, he went to Illinois, and had one daughter only ; 
Wm.'s second son, James, we shall meet later as the occupant of the same 
place ; his daughter, Laura, we have met as the wife of Oscar W. Lee, a 
resident of Painesville, Ohio ; Minerva married Darwin Norton, born 
in Eose, and resides in Illinois. Parmer's fourth son, Henry, married 
Hannah Hicks, and began his wedded life in the old log house first built. 
He afterward went to Phelps, Ontario county, and then moved to Michigan, 
where he lived and died. He had two sons. The fifth son, Daniel, wedded 
Sophia Bassett, who had been brought up by Mrs. Aaron Shepard, of 
District No. 7. Him also we shall encounter in our way westward in the 
district. The sixth son, Harvey, married Perliette Higgins. His early 
home was in Pompey, whence he went to Michigan, where he married 
a second time. His children were a daughter, Mary Esther, by his first 
marriage and two sons by his second, Charles and Lucien. Parmer's 
oldest daughter, Polly, became the wife of Eli Ward, the man who was the 
first settler on the Toles place. He also had an interest in the lot which 



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is now owned by Eustace Henderson. From Rose they moved to Wolcott, 
where Ward cared for a grist mill. They returned to Eose, but afterward 
went to that Eose Mecca, Michigan, where they died many years since. 
They had sons, Henry and Cyrus, and daughters, Adaline, Mary Ann and 
Maria. Adaline became the wife of Elisha Chaddock, from Cayuga Co. 
All went to the west. The second daughter, Jerusha, married Dorman 
Munsell. We have seen them in Stewart's district, and traced all their 
children. Both husband and wife lie in the Lovejoy burial ground. The 
third daughter, Maria, married Cyrus Brockway, a native of Castleton,Vt. 
They settled first in Huron ; then came to Eose and were for a short time 
on the corner, just south of the John Gillett farm. Soon afterward they 
moved to the Furnace. There and in Wolcott they lived until Mr. B. died, 
aged seventy-six, in October, 1876. He was buried in the latter place. 
Mrs. Brockway is now living with her son Elisha, on the old Wilson place 
north of Stewart's corners. (Died December, 1891.) Though past eighty, 
she retains much of the vigor so characteristic of her father's family. Her 
reminiscences of the early days were especially interesting. She recalled 
the fourteen days' trip from the old home ; told, laughingly, of the stop- 
ping one night, when all washed in an old-fashioned sink, something, I 
should think, like a modern bath tub, containing several pails of water. 
" Come," said the energetic mother, "let's be washed," and, ranging from 
the babe at her breast, now Mrs. Harvey Mason, to the lively boys and 
gii'ls in their 'teens, all were soundly scrubbed. They brought with them 
an excellent cow, for, said the father : "I am not going into the wilderness 
without milk." " Didn't your mother dread such a journey ? " I asked. 
" Oh, yes ; it was a great undertaking, but she was so anxious to keep her 
family of boys together. She couldn't bear to think of her six boys being 
widely separated, and she thought a four hundred acre farm would keep 
them near her." " But," I say, " they did not stay after all." " Well, 
the most of them did," she replies. Continuing, she said: "Father 
brought a supply of provisions to last the first year, such as pork, flour, 
etc. He and the boys cut off the timber, enough to allow of planting corn 
the first season, and what big corn they did have among the stumps ! 
Then they sowed wheat right after, and they raised so much that father 
was able to sell a little. I remember a man coming to father and he sold 
two bushels. It was very high and was worth two dollars a bushel. I 
recall my sorrow at the man having to pay so much, and told mother how 
badly I felt over such a necessity. I guess the man was glad to get it, 
though. Yes, we had adventures with the wild beasts. We brought with 
us a big dog, a most valuable animal, for father said he wouldn't live in 
the woods without a dog. Well, he followed a deer one day until he tired 
him out, and luckily drove him near our home. Two of the boys ran out, 
and Daniel caught the deer around the neck, shouting to me to fetch a 



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knife. I ran for the big butcher's knife and the boys cut the creature's 
neck. We had venison for some days. At another time we got a supply 
of bear's meat through the treeing of Bruin near our home. After firing 
many shots at him, one reaching a vital part, brought him down. It was 
a bad place to be sick in, this home in the forest. "Why, we all had the 
measles — thirteen of us — not all at once, or we should have died, sure. 
Some one had to be well enough to gather hemlock boughs, from which we 
made almost our only medicine. In some way, we all pulled through, 
though father was never as well afterward as before. It left him with 
a very bad cough. Father was not a member of the church, but mother, 
who was reared with the Congregationalists, united with the Methodists 
under Eev. Wm. McKoon in his early ministrations. Of course she leaned 
toward the Presbyterians ; but there was more or less dissension in their 
first church in Huron, so she chose the Methodists. Father died in an 
apoplectic fit, when sixty-three years old, in 1830. He lies in the burial 
ground near where he built his first house. Mother lived to be nearly 
ninety years old, dying in 1858." Mrs. Brockway had three children. 
William and Prudence are both dead. As we have stated, she passed her 
declining years with her son, Elisha, whose wife was Elizabeth Odell 
of Junius. They have a boy, Willie, and two little girls. Mrs B. told me 
that she attended the first school taught in this part of the town. It was kept 
in Alpheus Harmon's barn and was presided over by Miriam Wolcott, 
daughter of Epaphras Wolcott, one of the pioneers. Parmer L.'s fourth 
daughter, Charlotte, married Gowan Eiggs of Huron, and is living still ; 
she has a son, Henry, and daughter, Hester Ann, who married Sanford 
Odell. Parmer's youngest child and fifth daughter, Julia, married Harvey 
Mason, and is yet living in the district. 

Returning now to the first settler and progenitor of all the Eose Love- 
joys, we shall find him, in time, leaving his first home by the creek and 
moving into a new one on the west side of the road, near where Widow 
Xancy Lovejoy now lives. Here he lived until advancing years prompted 
him to make his home with his son, William, nearly opposite. And here, 
as we have seen, he and his wife died. In person Mr. L. was erect and 
muscular, well fitted for life in a new country. He had a good repute 
for determination and for reliableness. Like all men of mark he had his 
peculiarities, and words of his were long repeated in the vicinity. Once 
when a party was in progress at his home he conceived a dislike for one of 

the guests, one O , from the regions south. Perhaps the hard cider 

jug had been too frequently passed, and to get rid of him he says to his wife: 
"Weigh him a piece of cake and let him go." The expression became 
proverbial. He had a notion that women loved to ride about too much, 
and he sometimes called them " gad-abouts." This doggerel is remem- 
bered of him: "Aunt Anna, Aunt Dolly and Old Widow Frolly have all 



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gone to Wolcott with Uncle Parmer's oxen." The first two "aunts" were 
his daughters-in-law, while "Widow Frolly " was the relict of Elnathan 
Munsell. He was the first of a numerous race, so numerous, in fact, that 
when parties were held in the neighborhood, it was customary to say in 
answer to the question, " Who were there? " " Oh! Mr. and Mrs. So and 
So and the thousand Love.joys." 

To get our bearings correctly, we must go back toward the east just a 
iew rods, and we shall find a small, weather-beaten house situated in a 
snug inclosure. Here, for many years, lived the Pattersons. The father 
came from near Newark, and was a carpet weaver. Though badly crip- 
pled, he managed to earn a living. His house %fas once burned, but the 
sympathetic neighbors rebuilt it. After his death his wife, Lucy, took up 
his work, and for a long time was the weaver of rag cari>ets that cover 
many a floor in the neighborhood. Always industrious, but never far be- 
yond the door of want, she passed away finally, in 1885, and, with her 
husband, is buried iu Xewark. Says a neighbor, "When the folks around 
here made donation visits to their ministers, 1 used to take a bushel of 
potatoes and other things to Mrs. Patterson." She left a son, George, who 
served in the army, but who now lives in Michigan, and a daughter, 
Celinda, who is a dressmaker. Since Mrs. P.'s death the house has been 
without an occupant, some of the neighbors renting the lot. Perhaps the 
first dweller here was the Widow Lampson, whose husband, a painter by 
trade, had died in Clyde. She had three children at least. A daughter 
married James Phillips, and the sons, Edward and Theodore, married 
Barbara and Phcebe Phillips, respectively. Thus these families were 
pretty well united. The Phillipses lived on the farm now held by Dorman 
Munsell. Polly Lampson died in 1849, aged fifty-four years. 

Oliver Bush dwells just beyond. Him we found living on the Dudley 
Wade farm iu District No. 7, but in '86 or '87 he made a trade with Sidney 
J. Hopping, who had occupied this place since 1872. Mr. Bush's wife 
before marriage was S. Mariette Stone. Their son, Leverrier, married 
Florence V. Humphrey, and resides in Syracuse ; Fletcher D. married 
Lottie Holleubeck, and is in Fair Haven, N. Y.; Lavello S. married Clara 
Jackson, and resides in Oneida. Mr. Hopping is a native of Elbridge, 
Onondaga Co., but is remotely of Rhode Island stock. His own father 
dying when he was two years old, his mother married a Kenyou and finally 
worked out to these parts. His wife was Jane Cook, of Butler, and his 
two children, Ada and Darwin, were born here. On coming to Rose he 
lived four years on the Joel N. Lee farm, north of Rose. This was in 1862. 
He afterwards went to Chicago, and thence to Sacramento, taking six years 
for this experience; but ill health drove him back, and in 1872 he bought 
this place of Alonzo Chaddock, who had held it only a short time, having 
purchased of Lucian Osgood, whose brief though happy occupancy was 

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cut short by the untimely death, in 1870, of his wife, who was Eudora M. 
Seelye. Osgood had bought of Henry Lovejoy, already met as the husband 
of Sarah Blaine and the son of William Lovejoy. He was the original 
owner and builder. 

We are now ready to make a regular peregrination of the district. The 
next abode toward the north, for here the roads deflect in that direction, is 
the present Henderson home. As heretofore noted, the house was built by 
William Lovejoy, and here he died in 1S6.5, aged sixty-seven years. His 
widow survived until 1878, when she passed away, very nearly eighty-five 
years old. Here he reared his children, and about him saw beautiful farms 
appear, where once was the primeval forest. After him, as proprietor, 
came his second son, James, who married Nancy Lake, of the same school 
district, and here James died in 1870, at the early age of forty-two. Thus, 
under the same roof, father, son and grandson passed into the mystery. 
James had a numerous family, as follows : Fanny, who married John 
Judge and lives in Wisconsin; Eliza, who became the wife of Isaac Jones 
and lives on the famous lime-kiln farm in the edge of Butler; Ella, who is 
Mrs. Seymour Henry, of Huron; Lewis, who married Emma, daughter of 
William Henry, of Huron; the next two, Augustus and Augusta, are twins. 
The son took for his wife Lucy, daughter of Halsey Smith, of the same 
district, and now lives on the first farm west of the lime kiln, on the most 
northerly road in the town, though his house is in Butler. Augusta 
married Henry Wellington, of Eindge, N. H., and resides in the old Granite 
State. 

Next came Thomas Henderson, son of Eustace and grandson of that 
sturdy early settler, Gideon. His wife was Georgie Waring, whom he 
married in Wolcott ; but it is not a little interesting to find that she 
is descended from the Lovejoys, her great grandmother, who early went 
to Illinois, having been one of that group of nine sisters whom our pioneer 
left in Massachusetts. Very aged, she some years ago made inquiries, 
through Mrs. H.'s mother, about that only brother who so long before 
had made his home in the wilderness. The inquiries prosecuted by Miss 
Waring, then a school teacher in the district, resulted in tracing the 
relationship. It seems very meet that some one of the Lovejoy race should 
continue to hold the old estate. 

The next place, across the road and a little further north, is the home of 
the widow of James Lovejoy. It is on the old Lovejoy purchase and makes 
a very pleasant home for Mrs. L. and for her aged mother, Mrs. Tupper, once 
Mrs. Ira Lake. From this place she can make visits, long or short, as she 
likes, to her children, whom we have found scattered from New Hampshire 
to Wisconsin. (Widow Sarah Jones has come back from Illinois, and 
holds the place. Her son, Alfred, married Nellie E. Lovejoy ; Charles, 
Eva and Frank are at home. Mrs. J. is a daughter of Richard Garratt^ 
Mrs. Lovejoy continues to live here much of the time.) 



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Proceeding northward, at our right, we shall find the home of Darius 
Lovejoy, whose father, Daniel, lived nearly opposite, and here his trade, 
that of a carpenter and joiner, enabled him to erect a comfortable home. 
His wife is Sally Sampson, a daughter of Gamaliel and Harriet Sampson, 
formerly of Butler. There are no children to be recorded in this narrative, 
though one epitaph in the cemetery tells of the loss of a child years ago. 
The Lovejoy characteristic of large families seems, in this generation, to be 
in abeyance. 

On the corner is a home long conspicuous in the neighborhood. Here, 
years ago, Daniel Lovejoy, son of Parmer, erected his house, and here 
brought his wife, Sophia Bassett. The usual transition from log to frame 
house was had ; the farmer living comfortably and finally dying in 1861, 
nearly sixty-nine years old. His wife survived him until 1867, when she, 
too, passed away, at the age of nearly sixty-four years. Of their children 
we have already accounted for the oldest, Darius. Besides, there were 
David, who married Parisade, daughter of Horace Peck, of the old Savan- 
nah family, and went to Michigan ; John, who married Jane Weeks, from 
New Hampshire, and lives in Glenmark ; Daniel married Jane Potter, of 
Eose, and lives in Cayuga county ; and Phcebe, the wife of Martin Darling. 
After the Lovejoys, the place was occupied for awhile by John Briggs, son 
of Jonathan Briggs, of North Rose. His wife was an Otto, [and after the 
death of her father they moved to the Otto farm, just over the Huron line, 
and the place passed into possession of Harvey Mason, of whom we have 
already heard as the husband of Julia, the youngest of the Lovejoy chil- 
dren. Mr. Mason's history is an entertaining one. Long past the four 
score years of the Psalmist, he says he is not conscious of any pains nor 
aches, though we are told that such years are to be labor and sorrow. He 
was born in Castleton, Eutland Co., Vermont. His father, Robert, was 
from Sheffield, Mass., whence he had migrated to the Green Mountain 
State, but like many other early New York settlers, he was dissatisfied, 
and so pushed on to the then west. His wife was Ruth Calender, both 
names being of most excellent reputation in the Bay State. Here, ;'. e., in 
Vermont, Harvey Mason was born, on the 18th of June, 1805. In 1814 the 
westward march was made, and Robert Mason first settled on the farm long 
known as the Carrier place, but now occupied by Isaac Cole. He built 
near here a log house. His companion in this western move was Jonathan 
Nichols, who lived for a while on the place now held by Halsey Smith. 
Afterward he lived on the farm known as the Chaddock place, now that of 
Wm. H. Cole. For a time the elder Masons made their home with Harvey, 
but they afterward went to Ohio, where their last days were passed with 
their daughters, Eveline and Delia. Besides Harvey there were children : 
Amos, who was drowned in Lake Erie, his wife, Susan Wilcox ; Robert, 
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married Levi Lewis, and Delia is unmarried. The latter two live in 
Cleveland, Ohio. Harvey Mason and wife began housekeeping or domestic 
life with Mrs. H.'s nephew, Daniel, on the corner, while Mr. M.'s farm 
lay further west upon the hill. Here, many years ago, he erected a 
commodious house, still standing; but he did not intend to occupy it at 
once. His wife, however, was anxious to have a home of her own, and 
wanted to move immediately. It was before the days of stoves and Mr. M. 
objected that there was no fireplace nor chimney. " I don't care," said 
the young woman, " I can cook against a stump." So said the veteran 
long afterward, "I thought if she was so eager as that for a home by her- 
self, I would fix up at once for moving in." And fix he did, making this 
their abode for many years, until 1871, when they moved to the corners. The 
children were three daughters : Laura, who married Dorman Munsell, 2d, 
and lives on what was the west end of her father's farm ; Almanda, who 
was the first wife of Winfield Chaddock ; and Lucy, who married Henry 
Gillett, and died in Michigan. Both of these daughters are buried in the 
Lovejoy burial ground, within sight of the window at which sits many an 
hour the aged mother, who, as she knits, no doubt recalls from the buried 
past many a pleasant memory of the loved ones to whom she must one day 
go. Mrs. Chaddock died in 1859, at the early age of twenty-six. Mrs. 
Gillett died in 1880, aged nearly forty-four. In early life Mr. Mason 
learned the house builder's trade and so could not only build his own home, 
but he was the framer and builder of very many edifices in the vicinity. 
As he is prone to state, "It was my trade that gave me a start." Possessed 
of a goodly share of this world's goods, and through an upright life having 
a lively hope of the life to come, he calmly awaits the inevitable summons. 
Both he and his wife have long been members of the Rose Methodist 
Church. (D. 1889.) In the battle of life Mrs. Mason has been no ineffi- 
cient ally of her husband. Many years since, he made a carpet weaving 
loom for her, and on it she has woven many thousand yards of carpet. 
During the War, in one year, she wove more than eleven hundred yards ; 
but the loom is among the "has-beens " — sold and gone ; but many a foot 
in this and adjacent towns are pressing a surface which is due to the nimble 
hands and feet of Mrs. Mason. (Mr. H. W. Clapper, who married Angi- 
nette Munsell, Mrs. Mason's granddaughter, now manages the farm.) 

Taking the road towards the east, a quarter of a mile along, we come to 
the cemetery frequently referred to. Just beyond are the large barus of 
the Toles farm, while across the way is the house. One of the first, if not 
the very first dweller here was Eli "Ward, who had married Polly Lovejoy. 
After him came Silas Lovejoy, Polly's oldest brother. He built a log house 
somewhere between the Toles house and that of his son, Norman. As near 
as I can learn, Silas L. had more experience in log house architecture than 
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first. Soon afterward, since the parent stock appeared to be very filling, 
be put up a structure for himself, quite near the original one. Then came 
a house on the road still further north, near a spring, and still marked by 
an orchai'd and some tansy. This third house was succeeded in time by 
the frame building, which preceded the house now in use. The old house 
is now Mr. Toles' carriage barn. It was in this vicinity and in these 
houses that his family grew up. Before leaving Massachusetts he had 
married Anna Xichols, a sister of Jonathan Nichols, the first man on the 
Halsey Smith farm. His oldest son, Xorman, was a babe of nine months 
when the long journey was made. To this first farm succeeded Nelson, 
who married Charity Morey, and for a while lived nearly opposite in the 
house now occupied by Eson Young, and whose present home is north of 
Wolcott. He has a son, Eson, and a daughter, Ellen ; William and Harmon 
died early ; Harriet wedded, first, Elijah Morey, and second, Watson Dowd, 
of Huron — thus becoming the mother of several well-known citizens of that 
town; Perliette married Ira Lamb of Xorth Rose, and moved to Michigan, 
where she reared a family of three daughters and one son, and there died 
many years ago. Maria married Albert Preston, of Huron, and died 
several years since in Minnesota, leaving one daughter ; Alvira became 
the wife of Wan-en Stone, of Victory, and died a number of years ago, 
leaving three daughters and a son ; Sophronia, the youngest, was the 
second wife of Winfield Chaddock, and is the mother of Winfield, second, 
and Edith, who married Ernest O. Seelye. With her children she has gone 
to Dakota. These children, nine in number, I have been told, heard their 
lullaby s while rocked in a sap trough. Highly decorated cribs and cradles 
could not be afforded then. Xo doubt childhood's sleej) was just as sweet 
as it would have been if robed in silk and cradled in down ; manifestly, it 
was more healthy. After disposing of his place to the Toleses, Mr. 
Lovejoy made his home near that of Mrs. Chaddock, west of the Lake 
school-house, and finally with her. His death came in 1S77, when he was 
eighty-six years old. His wife had died four years before, when she was 
in her eighty-first year. Ebenezer Toles, who succeeded Silas Lovejoy on 
this farm, was born in Otsego county, October 12th, 1805. His first wife 
was Polly Williams, whom he married in Auburn prison ; said to be the 
first couple ever wedded there. Mr. T. worked the overseer's farm and 
the latter was a great friend of the prison chaplain, hence the marriage as 
above. After bearing him four children, she died in 1838, at the age of 
thirty-three years, and lies in the North Rose cemetery. He next married 
in the same year Hannah Vincent, a native of Maine, born November 22d, 
1804, who died in this house in 1879. When Mr. Toles came to the town 
he was first on the farm west of Carrier's corners, once held by C. C. 
Collins. Selling this, he moved to Wayne Center, but afterward came to 
this farm, where his earthly days ended in 1883. He and his second wife 



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sleep side by side in the adjacent burial ground. Mr. Toles was a member 
of the Rose Methodist Church ; his wife was a Presbyterian. The first 
wife's children were Matthew, who married Sarah A. Young, and lives now 
in Gratiot, Mich. ; Lucy, whom we met in District No. 5 as the wife of 
William Desmond ; Truman, who married Janette Baldwin. He died in 
Michigan in 1862, leaving a son, Truman ; Ebenezer, who was a member 
of the Ninth New York Heavy Artillery, and who died in February last, 
at the age of fifty-one. He was widely known in the town as "Eb" Toles, 
having a more extended reputation, perhaps, than many men of greater 
wealth and worth. The second Mrs. Toles was the mother of Ezra, who 
died at the homestead in January last, at the age of forty-six ; Julia, who 
married Henry Jones, son of Erving, and died in 1887, at the age of forty- 
four years, leaving a son, Erving ; Orson, who now resides upon the 
estate. His wife is Lettie Hoyt, of Weedsport. Their children are three, 
viz. : Willie Y., Herbert H. and Orson. Mrs. Toles' brother, Adin, a 
wounded veteran of the Third New York Light Artillery, makes his home 
here. Mr. Toles has just erected a fine dry house, thus taking advantage 
of the march of improvement in farming. (Mr. Toles now lives in Wol- 
cott, and the farmer in charge is George Smith, reared in this district.) 

The next place east on the south side of the road, is the home of Bson 
Young, a son-in-law of Norman Lovejoy. Crossing the road, we are again 
on familiar ground, for here we once more meet a Lovejoy, this time 
Norman, the oldest son of Silas, the only representative of the third 
generation of Parmer's family when they took up the line of march west- 
ward. He grew to manhood in sight of his present home, and the evening 
of his life is passed on acres every foot of which he has been over again 
and again. He went down into the Lyman neighborhood to find his wife 
who was Lydia Morey, from Saratoga county, originally. Both she and 
the neighbors familiarly refer to Mr. L. as "Dad." I think he doesn't 
resent the name. As we have seen, one brother. Nelson, and a sister, 
Harriet, married in the same family. He has had three children. His 
oldest. Eleanor, (died in 1893), was the wife of Bson Young, a Butler man, 
who, on his farm of forty-eight acres, lives opposite, and has one son 
named after his grandfather, Norman ; Silas married Eliza Lake, and lives 
south of the four corners. The youngest child, Anna, died at the age of 
twenty-three, in 1860. These old people have a pleasant home, endeared 
by long years of occupancy. "That quince bush," says Mr. L., " is the 
most thrifty one in the town." I fully agreed that to beat it, the bush 
would have to bear several bushels of fruit. His life can show the usual 
progress from a log house to the comfortable frame structure of to-day. 
To no other one person is the writer more indebted for family information 
than to the veteran farmer, Norman Lovejoy. (Silas Lovejoy and family 
have lived here several years. His mother died January 23d, 1892.) Our 



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trip in this direction is over, for we now reach the farm of Eustace 
Henderson, whom we met in District No. 6. 

To reach our next range of lots north we can go by Mr. Henderson's, 
and turning to our left, pass the homes of John Salisbury and Isaac Jones. 
Then reaching the lime kiln, we take the west road, but it is not until we 
have passed the houses of Augustus Lovejoy and Chai-les Hurter that we 
reach once more the confines of District Xo. 9. If we are on foot we shall 
save much time when we leave Norman Lovejoy's by going across lots 
through his lane and pastui-e to the parallel road north. However, taking 
the road after passing Hurler's, we find a comfortable house, having a 
sightly outlook from its position on a hill. The laud hereabouts was first 
taken up by Caleb Drury. Of this particular portion, John Drury, of 
Huron, gives a very interesting history. He says the land was cleared by 
a Mr. Ferris, who, with his father and negro slaves, came from Virginia. 
To pay men for work done, orders were given on a store in Huron, 
managed by one Mudge. These accumulating, were traded by Mudge with 
a Williamson in Philadelphia for goods. Ferris was unable to redeem 
these orders, so the farm passed into W.'s possession, and from him John 
Drury, first, purchased. Then Mr. Drury sold to that omnivorous Sodus 
Canal Co. Afterward the place was bought by J. Gurnee, a Huron man, 
who built the house. Then came Henry Jones, son of John E., who lived 
here until 1885, when in April Kathan Knapp of Wolcott took possession. 
Mr. Knapp is a native of Columbia county, but has lived near Newark, 
and for several years in Wolcott, where he ran the foundry. His wife is 
Eliza Caton, from the city of Albany. They have only one sou, Fred, who 
manages the foundry in Wolcott. 

Going a few rods west we reach the home of Charles Buchanan, standing 
on the corner of the road leading up or down into Huron, on the west side 
of which, half a mile away, we should find the home of John Drury, a 
grandson of the first settler here. Caleb Drury, the first comer, was a 
native of Eden, Orleans county, Vermont. His wife was Jane Hudson. 
The first home was, as usual, a log house, under the hill, where an orchard 
and a well mark the old location. To these people was born a large family. 
The oldest son, Holloway, we shall meet further west ; John married Jane 
McFarland, of Vermont, and had six children. He went to Michigan in 
1843, and there died. Elihu married Lovina, daughter of Alverson Wade, 
and after living a while near the Wade home, went west ; Anson married 
Sophia Munsell and lived in Wolcott ; Caroline, the oldest daughter, 
never moved to Rose, but married in Vermont, Solomon Wood, and went 
to Pennsylvania ; Sally and Nancy married Alvin and Wallace Buck, 
respectively, brothers, of Huron, and lioth migrated to Michigan. John, 
a son of John, now lives just north, as has been noted, on the Wolcott 
road. Caleb Drury, at the age of eighty, died in 184.3, and was buried in 



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Huron. From the Drurys the place passed to Wolcott Blodgett, from 
Connecticut, who married Mary, daughter of Wooster Henderson, of 
Butler. He had three boys born here, but when they were small, the 
family went to Michigan. He sold to the Sodus Canal Co. Then for a time 
came one DeBow, from Canandaigua. His wife died here and he went back 
to Ontario county. To him succeeded David H. Town, son of Asa, of Dis- 
trict No. 5, and in 1857 we find it owned by Marvin D. Hart, who was born 
in Junius, Seneca county. His wife was Mary Jane Miner, of Butler, but 
born in Perry, Wyoming county. ]\[r. Hart made extensive repairs and 
additions, and as a leading member of the Eose Baptist Church, had a wide 
circle of friends in the vicinity. The writer recalls one festive occasion in 
the winter of 1865 and 1866, when a merry load of Rose and Butler young 
people made the welkin ring until a late hour. Then when we started 
away, and were going down the hill west of the bouse, the sleigh tongue 
fell down, and we were soon landed in the fence, luckily without broken 
bones. In the farm there are ninety acres, and with buildings in good 
condition, the place is particularly attractive. Mr. Hart left the farm 
about eighteen years ago, and after living in Marengo and Clyde, finally 
located on the Henry Eice place in the Valley, where he died, greatly 
respected and lamented, on the 21st of June last, aged fifty-eight. His 
children are Lycurgus S., who married widow Seaman, and lives in Wol- 
cott, and Alice M., who is at home with her mother. Mrs. Hart's father, 
Isaac Miner, long resident of Butler, also lives with her. He was born 
the 12th of April, 1792, in Stonington, Conn. ; he is probably now the 
oldest person in town. To the Harts succeeded the Buchanans, who 
came directly from Huron, but remotely from Rochester. The father, 
Joseph, died in Galen. His widow, who as a girl was Rebecca Vance, 
" from Pennsylvania, now occupies the old home. (Died February 13, 1890, 
in her eighty-first year.) Her oldest son, Charles, we have just passed at 
the corner of the road, where he has erected a house, in which, with his 
wife, Imogene Prescott, he is rearing his children, Robert and Hattie. 
Lclt us hope that this coming Robert may equal the reputation of that 
other and famous Robert Buchanan, whose verse has pleased so many. 
Mrs. B.'s second son, Robert, was a soldier in the 111th, and was killed 
before Petersburg, June 16th, 1864 ; Mary A. lives at home with her 
mother, while Louisa is Mrs. Landers, of Sodus. 

Down the hill, eighty rods away, on the south side of the road, is a 
small farm owned now by Charles Peck and George Wellington, son and 
son-in-law of Betsey (Kellogg) Peck, whom we first met in Butler. The 
last owner, before them, was David Wood, who, a native of Vermont, 
dropped dead some years since, when on his way to Clyde. I am told 
that the house was built for Silas Lovejoy, oldest son of Norman, and that 
he lived here until he went to reside on the Lake farm. Mrs. Peck, well 



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known to her friends as " Aunt Betsey," and her children have our best 
wishes in this new iindertaking. 

The red house, nearly opposite, and well back from the road, is the 
home of Daniel Lewis. He is a son of P. T. Lewis, who lives further west. 
Daniel L. married Mary, daughter of Dorman Munsell, and has three 
children — Lloyd B., Lena and Lester. The alliterative succession of L's 
will be noted. Whether, had there been more children, there could be 
found more names beginning with the favorite letter, I can't tell. Mr. 
Lewis' home is well known in the vicinity as the old " Holl " Drury farm, 
for here, during a long life, resided Holloway Drury, the oldest son of that 
Caleb whom we met half a mile back. He was twice married ; once in 
Vermont, and, second, here, to Prudence Aldrich, a sister of Peter, of 
Stewart's district. He died in 1877, at the extreme age of ninety-two, 
and was buried with the Lovejoys. He was, I believe, a member of the 
Methodist Church. Though for some years residing with the Lewis family, 
he died with his nephew, John. By his first wife, he was the father of 
Adaline, now more than seventy-four years old, who has been all her life 
a most singularly afflicted being. From her childhood, she has had no use 
whatever of her hands, they and her face having a form of St. Vitus' 
dance. Had she been taught to read in her childhood, her later years 
might have been more pleasant, but in spite of all adversities, she has 
done what seems almost impossible. Seated upon the floor, with her toes 
she cuts out blocks of cloth and sews them together, having thus made 
several bedquilts. She threads her own needle, using her toes only. In 
fine, whatever she does must be done with these members. She cuts out, 
very deftly, little heart-shaped pieces of papers, which, with the bedquilt 
blocks, she gives to visitors as mementoes ; no pun intended there. Her 
father's place passed into the hands of Mr. Lewis as compensation for the 
care of this life-long helpless person. 

We next encounter the small house belonging to H. Garlic. For 
some years this was the home of Alfred Graham, a good soldier of 
Company A, 2vinth Heavy Artillery, who died in 1874. His wife was 
Kate Eldred, of Eose. He was a nephew of Henry Graham of Rose, 
though reared in Huron. His father was Zachariah. A comrade of 
mine, I am glad to know that he was a good citizen as well as soldier. 
The place came into Graham's hands through his mother, who traded 
property in Huron with old Captain Sours. There were fifty- six acres in 
the farm. The house was probably built by a Wood, a relative of "Holl " 
Drury. H. M. Smith lived here for a while. Mr. Graham had one 
daughter, Ida, who married Millard Ward and died in Chicago. 

Crossing the railroad we find a very fine white house, where lives 
Philander T. Lewis, a native of the section of country near Rochester. 
Coming here many years ago, he married Anna, the only child of Daniel 



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I 

Tucker, the then owner. This farm was taken from the office by one John i 

White, who built a log house. Then came one Murray, who sold to the 

Sodus Canal Company, and then came Mr. Tucker, a native of Derby, I 

Connecticut. His wife was Anna Eyan, who, more than ninety-one years I 

of age, lives with the Lewises. (She has since died.) Mr. Tucker died j 

October 12th, 1876, and is buried in Huron, where lies also Mr. Eyan, 

Mrs. Tucker's father, who accompanied her to this town. It is in this ' 

house that Adaline Drury finds a home. Mr. Lewis has one daughter 

only — Anna B., the wife of Benjamin Dowd, formerly of Huron, now of i 

O.swego. (Mr. Lewis died August 15, 1890.) 

This east and west road that we have followed for a mile and -a half, 
; ., terminates in one, north and south, and just opposite the end is the home 

'^'-^Vof Halsej M. Smith. This place was pre-empted by Jonathan Nichols, 
■^■'-^ who erected the customary log house. The succession of owners is not 
/vU< clear, but I find the names of Eddy, Havens, Wm. Hallenbeck, who built 

the framed house. Early in the century Eobert Mason must have lived 
here, for in his own language Harvey M. says : "I have eaten no end of •: 

johnny-cake on that farm." It was johnny-cake eating and hard work that | 

enabled the first comers to pay for their farms. After the Hallenbecks '' 

came Andrew Pearsall, then Melvin Knights, from Saratoga county, and 
finally the present^wner, who is a sonjof Solomon _Smith, whom we shall 
meet further north. He married Maria Wilson, of Butler, and is the father 
of four daughters, viz.: Elva, wife of David Doolittle, of Huron ; Lucy, 
who married Augustus Lovejoy ; Cora and Egtta at home. (Cora is now 
Mrs. Harvey D. Munsell and Augustus Lovejoy works the farm.) iC/iiuii /~/ "a^ 
A few steps north is an old house belonging to the Tucker property, and 2 - "7(^^^ 
long used as a tenant house. Of such it would be too great a task to 
recall the occupants. 

There is one house, possibly twenty rods north, which lies or stands 
just on the line between Huron and Eose, and here I must remark that all 
the dwellers on the north side of this last Eose road have more belongings 
in Huron than in Eose. In fact, Mr. Knapp's farm lies in Butler as well 
as in the other two. If the line had followed the last line of lots in Eose, 
some of this trouble might have been saved. As it is, for several miles, 
these farmers are in two towns. This house, which stands on the line, was 
built by Solomon Smith, and he slept regularly in one town and ate in 
another. Mr. S. was born in Walliugford, Conn., and married in Wood- 
bury, Conn., Miss Sarah Eyan, a sister of Mrs. Daniel Tucker. The Eyans ] 
were from Southbury, New Haven Co. They came to Wayne county soon | 
after the opening of the Erie canal, and made their first stop at " 'Squire' 
Daniel Eoe's, in Butler, whose family they h.ad known in Connecticut. 
They soon came to this place, a farm of one hundred acres. Their children i 
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he died a member of a Connecticut regiment, at Hatteras, N. C, on Burn- 
side's expedition ; Harry, who married, first, Elizabeth Graham, and 
second, Maria Fowler, whose children are Ambrose, who married Cora, 
daughter of John H. Davis, of Clyde ; Sarah married Edwin McMullen; 
Helen married Edwin Gulett ; Clarissa and Eliza. Harry Smith was a 
member of Company H, Ninth New York Heavy Artillery. Solomon's 
third son was Halsey M.; then came Eliza and Frances, of whom the former 
was the wife of Albert Graham, of Clyde, the latter of Eichard Garratt ; 
the youngest was George, who married, first, Armene Lake, of Huron, and 
second, Ida Sedore. His only daughter, Georgie, is the wife of Ed. A. 
Bradburn, of Clyde. Solomon Smith, who died in 1875, aged 74, was in 
the War of 1812, in some capacity, and on this account his widow draws a 
pension. He must have been a very young soldier ; but no one begrudges 
the stipend which serves to soften some of the widow's rough lines in her 
-old age. She is eighty-nine years old, but quite well and vigorous, and 
retains her faculties remarkably. Her birthday is the same as that of her 
sister, Mrs. Tucker. Her home now is with her son, George, on the Eob- 
inson place, west of Carrier's corners. (D. 1889.) 

Retracing our steps, we pass Halsey Smith's, and there find the pleasant 
home of Richard Garratt. I think some of his old friends call him '-Dick." 
Mr. G. comes of that Long Island family that we found in District No. 5. 
He was himself born in Westchester county, and in early life, in spite 
of home protests, followed the sea, but when, in 1838, his folks came to 
this town, he came too, and some readers will remember him as the unfor- 
tunate victim of the accident at the " horning " given to the newly married 
Willard and Betsey Peck. In 1846 he married Frances Smith, and for 
many years has lived where we now find him. He built the house and the 
barns, and the tidy appearance of everything is owing to his watchful eye 
and diligent hands. He tells me that his west line marks the western 
boundry of the original Lovejoy purchase. His daughter, Sarah, married 
Frank Jones, and lives in Aurora, 111., while Mary was the wife of Michael 
A. Fisher, of Clyde. Mr. Garratt .showed his devotion to his country by 
enlisting in Company H of the Ninth Heavy Artillery, at an age when most 
men thought duty called them to stay at home. 

Continuing to Harvey Mason's home at the Four Corners, we turn west 
and go toward the school-house. Before we ascend the next hill, there 
are traces at our right of a house, where, in the years long past, dwelt 
Charles Lake and family. The Lakes were from Rindge, N. H., and 
Charles had married Betsey Murray, a member of the family that we found 
in the early days on the now Alonzo Chaddock place. Mr. Lake was a 
carpenter and joiner, and presumably there are yet standing specimens 
hereabouts of his handiwork. The children in this home are Miranda, 
Murray and Byron. The sons went to Michigan, while the daughter mar- 



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ried Win. Ray, and lives in Pittsford, Monroe Co. With her the mother 
died, while the father ended his days in Michigan. (Geo. Byron Lake 
died in Northville, Mich., June 12, 1891, in his 58th year.) 

The next house was for many years the residence of Ira Lake, from whom 
the school district takes its name. He was born in Weathersfield, Vt., in 
1797, May 29th, and married Adaline Wellington, of Rindge, N. H. She 
was born in 1806, and is yet living, though now she bears the name of 
Tapper, having married a second time. Although obliged to use a crutch 
in getting about, on account of a fall, she yields very little to the infirmities 
of age, and passes her time in Rose with her daughters, in Oswego with 
her son, or makes visits to her old home in the Granite State. (Since died.) 
They came to Rose in 1831, and here reared their family. The oldest son, 
Henry, married Rosanna T. Deming, of Xewark, and now resides in 
Oswego ; Nancy became Mrs. James Lovejoy ; Eliza married Silas Love- 
joy; Wellington, who married Emma Potter, of Rose, was a member of 
the 111th jSr. Y., and was killed at the Wilderness, May 6, 1861, aged 
twenty-eight, and a flag upon his grave in the Lovejoy cemetery proclaims 
his patriotism ; the youngest son, Hermon, married Anna Houston, and 
lives in ^Si^orthville, Michigan. During the War Ira Lake went to the south, 
expecting to secure employment as a carpenter, but illness drove him home, 
where he died February 5, 1861, aged sixty-six years, eight months and six 
days. The house is now the home of Silas Lovejoy, born and bred in the 
district. A citizen of worth and repute, he keeps in excellent condition 
the acres so long tilled by his wife's father. Here are three daughters — 
Anna, Florence and Nellie. (Anna is now Mrs. Alfred G. Jones ; Anna, 
Mrs. David W. Harper ; Florence, Mrs. Xelson Graham. The farm is 
owned by Augustus Lovejoy.) 

Opposite is the school-house, whose frame has seen more than fifty years 
of existence. The covering has been renewed, but the skeleton goes back 
to the earliest days of many a middle-aged i-esident of the district. Passing 
on again we behold the quiet farm house. It is just west of the school 
house and on the same side of the road. It is on the Harvey Mason farm. 
It was built by him when he and his wife were young, and here they passed 
the long years — short in the retrospect — of their married life. After the 
the Masons moved to the corners, the place has been occupied by a succes- 
sion of tenants. 

Before reaching the old Chaddock place, on the north side of the road, 
we must go down a hill, at whose foot, on the south side of the road, is a 
large sulphur spring. I know of no other in the town. A little judicious 
care would make the place worthy of resort. As it is, many people have 
carried away barrels of its waters on account of its medicinal qualities. 
The water is not so heavily impregnated as at Clifton, but unless one is 
fond of venerable eggs, the water contains sulphur enough. Passing along. 



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a pleasant valley and then climbing again, we shall stand where industry 
has for many years been the prevailing characteristic of man and woman. 
It is now the home of William H. Cole; but we must go back many a weary 
year to find the earliest occupant, William Chaddock. He was a Massa- 
chusetts man, born in 1786, probably in the town of Rutland. He married 
there Dorothy Brown, and there they began their life journey. Afterward 
they moved to Cayuga county in this state, and there some of their chil- 
dren were born. Coming to this town Mr. C. located on lot 136, which I 
find earliest assigned to Robert Mason, father of Harvey, but I suppose he 
must have given it up. The first log house was put up in the orchard, or 
where the orchard is now. This was burned, and then a second one was 
erected nearer the road, and also near the present framed structure, which 
came in due time. The story goes that one of these houses, by mistake, 
was erected over a boundary line, so that a neighbor could claim it. The 
neighbor forbade his moving it, and proceeded to take legal measures for 
holding it. But when he came with his process, he was too late, for Mr. 
C. had gathered his neighbors and, in the night, had moved all the house 
and a part of the cellar. There was nothing left for him to attach. The 
most of Mr. Chaddock 's Rose life, however, was passed in the primitive 
log habitation. He died in 1854, October 27th, in his sixty-ninth year — 
not as old as men and women live to-day. It is noteworthy that the most 
of the very first comers did not live so long as their children have. 
They did not become acclimatized, or the excessive labor incident to break- 
ing up a new country broke them down. Chills and fever was a complaint 
which all suffered from and from which some never fully recovered. Mr. 
C. was a lifelong member of the Baptist Church, and always maintained 
the respect of his neighbors. It is said that be had to pay for his farm 
twice, through some rascality. His widow survived him until our centen- 
nial year, when she died at the age of 81. As was usual in the olden 
times, Mr. Chaddock's family was a good-sized one. His oldest son, 
William, was born in Massachusetts, but accompanying the family to this 
state, married Miss Lydia Bigelow, of Brockport. Her father was both 
Baptist clergyman and surveyor, and in the latter capacity surveyed the 
site of Rochester. The second son, Watson, married Maria Drown, and 
lives in Huron ; Alonzo we have met as a resident of the Stewart district ; 
Winfield we shall return to presently as his father's successor on the farm; 
Wesley married a Thomas, and lives in Huron. Why a staunch Baptist 
should name his boy after the founder of the Methodists is more than I can 
devise. There were daughters, too, viz.: Lydia, who became Mrs. Normad 
Seymour, of Huron ; Mary, wife of Clark Eldred, of North Rose; Caroline, 
who married successively Francis and John DeLong, of Huron, and Elsie, 
the wife of Newton Lee, of Cleveland, Ohio. (Mrs. DeLong died July 30, 
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wife was Almanda, daughter of Harvey Mason, who died in 1859, at the- 
age of nearly twenty-seven. They had one daughter, Lucetta, the wife of 
Wm. H. Cole, who now occupies the old homestead. His second wife was 
Sophronia, youngest child of Silas Lovejoy, and thereby own cousin to 
Almanda, the first wife. She is the mother of two children— Edith, wife of 
Ernest O. Seelye, of Dakota, and Winfield, born after his father's untimely 
death. Winfield Chaddock was one of the town's most substantial and 
respected citizens. Stalwart in form, he was just as erect in character, 
and when sudden illness carried him off, in 1873, he left a large void in the 
Baptist Church, and the neighborhood. His widow managed the farm 
herself until June, 1883, when she followed her daughter to Dakota. Now 
in Okobojo, Sully Co., she is with her son, Winfield, waiting for the 
country to grow up. William H. Cole, having married the older 
daughter, Lucetta, purchased the farm on Mrs. C.'s departure, and now 
manages matters in the home of his wife's ancestors. He is himself a son 
of Isaac Cole, who lives on the old Carrier place, further west. He is a 
native of Saratoga county, but has lived many years in Galen. Like all 
the dwellers on this farm, he is a member of the Rose Baptist Church. 
Just what the peculiarities of the hill lot are, that they should make Bap- 
tists of all dwellers, even of those of Methodist antecedents, I can't 
imagine; for, lo! there is not much water near. One son, Charles S., is 
growing up, no doubt, to maintain the Baptist traditions of the place. (Mr. 
Cole evaporates apples extensively, and, with Louis S. Town, is interested 
in large peach orchards in Georgia.) 

Across the road is the pleasant home of Dorman Munsell. As we have 
noted, he is the second to bear the name — a son of that Dorman who 
moved from ancient Windsor of Connecticut. The farm itself was the 
early home of Faine Phillips, who, a half-brother of Mrs. Chaddock and 
Mrs. Norton, came here from Massachusetts, and here his life was passed. 
The log habitation was near the present house, possibly a little further 
west. For his wife he married widow Wood, whom the neighbors called 
"Aunt Peggy." She had several children by her fir.st marriage, and to 
one of these, Abner, the farm passed on the death of the old people. I 
have been told that they are buried in the Briggs or Bishop cemetery. 
If so, they have no memorial to mark their graves. Abner Wood married 
Mary Ann Barnum, daughter of Roger, whom we encountered on the 
western confines of District No. 6. Like all the others hereabouts, he 
went west. After several short ownerships, the farm was bought by 
Harvey Mason, who passed it along to its present proprietor. Paine 
Phillips had several children by his marriage with widow Wood, and 
three of these we have already met as the consorts of three of widow 
Lampson's children. She was herself a sister of Roger Barnum' s wife. 
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Josephine ; Emogene, who married Byron Brayton, and lives in Hubbard- 
ston, Michigan ; Anginette is the wife of Henry Ward Clapper, and lives 
with the Masons on the corners ; Elnora married Daniel Lewis, and we 
have seen them on the old " Holl" Drury farm ; the only son, Harvey D., 
and the youngest daughter, Lizzie A., are at home. In common with 
nearly all the denizens of this town, Mr. Munsell has had the Michigan 
fever, and in the Badger State lived for some years ; but he appears to 
have survived the attack, and now lives comfortably in the neat house of 
his own construction, for he is a good cai-penter and joiner. ( Mr. M. is 
now in Clyde, and his sou, Harvey, manages the farm. ) 

Going down the hill and across the railroad, we find an orchard on the 
north side of the road. This marks the site of a former home. There is 
a shanty standing now, but once a log house held the family of Daniel 
Norton. The mother was Mary Brown, a sister of the first Mrs. Chaddock. 
There were sons — Joseph, Elijah and Darwin— and daughters — Emeline 
and Mary. Mr. Norton, after selling to Zadoc Taylor, moved to Lima, 
Livingston county. He must have been one of the very first owners of 
the farm. Eli Garlic may have been there before him. It now belongs to 
the family of Zadoc P. Taylor. 

Further west and on the corners, southeast side, is the home of Isaac 
Cole ; but it was long the home of the Carrier family, and the cross roads 
are still known as Carrier's corners. The first holder of this farm was 
Eobert Mason, whom we have frequently seen in these parts. A widow 
Babcock, former wife of Stephen, was the party, who, fifty or more years 
ago, sold to Amaziah Carrier, and went to the west. When the Babcocks 
took the place, the father was living. There were five children — Betsey, 
Jane, Stephen, Willard and Caleb. Mr. Carrier was born in Conquest, 
Cayuga county, but of Massachusetts stock. His wife was Lois Jane 
Bottum, born in Conquest also. She was a sister of the late Dr. Bottum 
of Lyons, but who, years ago, practiced in this and adjacent towns. The 
name was originally Longbotham, and as such is still a common one on 
Long Island. Mrs. Carrier's immediate family came from Schoharie county. 
The wedded life of the Carriers began in Conquest. From there they went 
to Huron and thence to Rose, where we find them. No people in this 
town ever enjoyed more thorough respect from their neighbors. Members 
of the Methodist Church, they gave a permanent respectability to the place 
of their dwelling. Though only their youngest two children were born 
here, yet the others were small when the family came, so here all were 
reared. Their oldest son, W . Seward, was a young man of much promise, 
who, after several years' study in Fulton, had begun the reading of law ; 
but the war of the Rebellion found him ready to sacrifice all personal ends 
for the good of his country. He became a member of the 10th Veteran 
Cavalry, and as such died in Baltimore in 1862 — one of the first whose 



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body was brought back from the seat of war to his old home to sleep its 
last sleep. With his kindred he rests in the Lovejoy burial ground. 
Mary died in 1859, at the age of nineteen years ; Elbert E., after taking a 
diploma in medicine at Ann Arbor, Mich., began the practice of his pro- 
fession near Syracuse, but died soon afterward, viz., in 1870, aged twenty- 
eight years ; Ella J. married George Aldrich of JS^orth Eose, where they 
live, having one son, John C; Lillie Estelle married Burton Partridge 
from Chautauqua county, and now lives in Wolcott. He is a Methodist 
clergyman of the Genesee Conference, though not now in the active minis- 
try. Amaziah Carrier himself, after a useful life, died in 1872, at the age 
of sixty-two. His widow now makes her home in Wolcott. From the 
Carriers the place passed to David Waldroff of Galen, who sold in a few 
years to George Fry, from whom it soon passed to its present proprietor. 
Mr. Cole is a native of Galloway, Saratoga county ; his wife is Juliette 
Northrop. His home for some years before moving tb Rose was in Galen. 
His older son, Wm. H., we have met on the old Chaddock place ; Sidney 
is at home ; the only daughter, Harriet, is the wife of John Gillett of Clyde. 
Mr. Cole is a prominent member of the Free Methodist Church. 

Diagonally across the way is the home of the Taylors, but it was here, 
in the years ago, that the youthful Robinsons sported. Henry Robinson, 
the first of his family here, was born in Eniskillen, Ireland, in 1797. His 
ancestors had migrated from Scotland to Erin in Oliver Cromwell's days, 
and to the last he was a stout champion of Orangeism and all that the name 
implies. The mother, Elizabeth, was born in the same place, though of 
English antecedents, in 1799. Together they sought a home in this 
western world, and first located in Phelps, Ontario county. After coming 
to Rose, his first work was done for Gen. Adamg,, on the famous Sodus 
canal, and on the general's Clyde farm. His trade was that of a stone 
mason, and a more thorough master of his art never handled a trowel. 
Many a foundation securely laid and walls compactly Ituilt, attest the 
reliableness of his work. I would defy anyone to find a specimen of Henry 
Robinson's work that, through any fault of his, was or is imperfect. If 
devotion to the Orangemen's principles begets such probity and upright- 
ness, let us pray for an increase of the tribe. An exemplary member of 
the Methodist Church, he finished his course in 1874 ; his wife in 1875, 
and both are found in the Rose cemetery. On taking this farm, there was 
standing on the corner a log house, and in this for several years the family 
lived. Then they sold to Wm. Underhill from Tyre, and bought of Wm. 
€haddock the next place west. Later, in the fifties, he bought of Wm. 
Havens six acres of land across the road, and having moved the Chaddock 
house over the way, there he and his wife lived until their deaths, as stated 
above. The children of these good people were numerous, and some of 
them are well known in their respective communities. The oldest, James, 



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iiiariied a Johnson of Phelps, and resides near Newark ; the second son is 
the Hon. Thomas Eobinson of Clyde. A lawyer of eminence, he has 
represented his senatorial district at Albany. Always of scholarly char- 
acteristics, he taught and worked until he secured a good education. With 
trowel in hand, he has borne no mean part by his father's side. As a 
teacher, he is remembered most vividly in Eose, Butler and other towns, 
where his school was always the best. As county commissioner of public 
schools, he won additional honors, and as lawyer and senator, he has still 
further enhanced the luster of the name, always of good repute. His wife 
is a daughter of Rev. R. N. Barber, whom he wed in 1863. His pleasant 
homo is in the western part of the village of Clyde, the site of Gen. Adams' 
old residence — a striking illustration of the vicissitudes of fortune in this 
land. The elder Robinson dug in "Adams' ditch," the younger owns 
Adams' old home. Who will dare to say that the poor man has no chance 
in America ! To-day one man drives, another rides. The next generation 
just reverses the order. The third son, William H., married Lena Hall 
of Morrisville, Madison county. He died September 30, 1872, and is 
buried with his parents in Rose. John W. Robinson, as did all his 
brothers, worked more or less with his father, but he desired an education, 
and was for a time a schoolmate of the writer at Falley Seminary in 
Fulton. Teaching and working, he secured an education, fitting him for 
the place he now holds at the head of the Wolcott union school. His 
wife, whom he married in Manchester, Michigan, divides with him the 
honors of the successful management of the school. ( Mr. R. is now at 
the head of the Newark, N. Y., high school.) Another son, Irving J., 
died in 1875, at the age of twenty-eight years. The eldest daughter, 
Catharine, was graduated from the Albany State Normal School in the 
second class fitted there. She died in 18-19, at the age of twenty-two. 
Eliza A. died in 1875, at the age of forty, while Jane, who makes her 
home with Thomas, is a teacher in Macedon. The family, from the begin- 
ning, took an active interest in education. First and last, five of the 
children were teachers. Three of them taught in the home or Lake dis- 
trict. The only regret, as we end the chapter, is that those in the 
cemetery are the only ones of this family who remain in the town. It is 
possible that the first settler here was Orrin Morris. He had children — 
Hiram and Lucinda. All went to Wisconsin. 

Zadoc P. Taylor, who succeeded the Underhills, found the log house still 
there. He built the frame house and the blacksmith shop on the corner, 
where he long worked at his trade. His wife was Aldula Allen, oldest 
daughter of Solomon Allen of the Stewart district. Both husband and 
wife were natives of Vermont, whei-e the former was born in Pawlet, in 
1800. He died in 1881. To them were born three children — Geliza, who 
now (a Reed) lives in Savannah ; Uuth, who, with her mother, holds the 
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old place; and Allen, who, having married Elizabeth Lund, lives on the 
Clyde road. Ruth has been for many years a teacher, having had excep- 
tional early advantages at Oberlin College in Ohio. She has recently 
married William L. Brown of Orleans county. The Taylors also bought the 
Robinson place north of the road, and there Allen T. built the house now 
standing. (Mrs. T. has since died, and to the Browns has come a daughter, 
Aldula.) 

To the next place opposite, we have already had an introduction as the 
home of the Robinsons, from whom it passed to George Smith, the present 
owner, and him and his we met when visiting the family of Solomon Smith. 
William Havens, who once lived here and in other places in the district, 
came from Cato. He had two sons and several daughters. One of these 
married Elias Wood, who taught the first school in the district. He after- 
ward became a Baptist minister. A man by the name of Mandigo also 
lived here. He moved over to the Roger Barnum place in District Xo. 6, 
and there died. 

After crossing the road again, we find the site of the house which Wm. 
Chaddock, 2d, built many years since, though it succeeded a log house 
which he constructed after leaving the paternal farm. He had here 
twenty acres, and these he held until he bought and built opposite the 
Grahams, further west. Subsequently he bought and managed the grist 
mill in Glenmark. After selling that he moved to the Valley, and there 
died, in 1883. His widow, whom we have met as Lydia Bigelow, lives in 
the Valley home with her daughter, Mrs. Cephas Bishop. His children 
are Sarah, mentioned above as Mrs. Bishop ; Jared, who married Miriam 
Durfee of Marion, and lives on the Samuel Garlic place, west of the village. 
(Now in the Valley.) He was a member of the 67th N. Y. during the 
War. Judson has been twice married, first to Addie Hoyt of Weedsport, 
a cousin of Mrs. Orson Toles, and second to Katie Cuyler of Cato, another 
cousin of Mrs. T. His home also is west of the Valley. The youngest, 
Rosalie, is at home with her mother and sister. William Chaddock was a 
reputable, reliable citizen, and it goes without saying that he and his were 
or are all Baptists. From Mr. Chaddock the farm passed, first to Henry 
Robinson, and finally to the Taylors, who now own it. 

Only a short distance beyond is the house built years ago by Ebenezer 
Toles, who, when he took the place, found there a log house, built likely 
by Joel Mudge. Of the former I wrote in connection with the Orson Toles 
farm. Mr. Toles sold to Josias Vincent, who now lives in Clyde. After 
Vincent came Columbus C. Collins, whom we have met repeatedly in Dis- 
trict No. 7 and elsewhere. Collins was a dry joker at times, and to the 
writer's brother he once said, standing in his porch : "You see, we have 
Biblical surroundings. Over there is Shadrack ( Chaddock), yonder is a 
mere shack (pointing to a log house), and here — well, here to bed we go." 



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Since Collins' clay there have been many possessors, as Ambrose Cope- 
man, who died there. He was a son-in-law of J. Baker, who lives further 
west. Thomas Eobinson came next, then John Barrick, Alonzo Streeter 
and Eobert Jeffers, from whom it passed to John York of North Eose, 
who still holds it. 

Our course is ended in this direction, and we must come back to the 
corners. Here we shall journey to the north through a valley with a 
stretch of woods at our left. The road is between the old lots 134 on the 
west, and 135 to the east. We shall go just into Huron, where the road 
divides lots 114 and 115 ; i. e., the lower part of these lots is in the town 
of Eose, the greater part in Huron. After climbing the hill, we find at 
our right evidence of industry and thrift in the pleasant home of Edmund 
G. Smith. The earliest trace of ownership that I can find is that of Dar- 
win Norton, who probably took the place from;the land office. Norton 
has been met as a member of the family west of the first William Chaddock. 
His wife was a Lovejoy. Then came Alonzo Chaddock, during whose 
ownershij) the framed house was built, and with him his brother-in-law, 
Frank De Long, died. He sold to S. Garlic, and he to Deacon Guthrie. 
The latter's daughter, Louisa, is the wife of Chas. Deady of District No. 
5. Then came Mr. Smith, the present owner. He was born in Notting- 
hamshire, England, and came to this country in 1850. For some years he 
traveled with circuses and menageries, among others that of Van Amburg, 
where I suppose he repeatedly " saw the elephant go round."' It was in 
1871 that he came to this place, where he keeps things in apple-pie order. 
No circus around him now. His wife was Elizabeth Livermore, a widow 
whose maiden name was Parker. Having no children, they give a home 
to their niece, Eliza, a daughter of Mr. Smith's brother, who died in 
England. (Married, Sept., '93, to Samuel V. King.) 

There is yet one place before we reach Huron. We shall find it a few 
rods beyond E. G. Smith's, on the west side. There are many years 
separating us from Orrin Morris, who, I have learned, after selling on the 
corners, came up here, pre-empted twenty-five acres of land and built his 
log house, which he sold to the widow of Paine Phillips. Then came 
names as Hurlburt, C. C. Collins, who joined the farm to his. Turner, then 
Brunney, an Englishman, whose foster son, James, of the 3d N. Y. Artillery, 
lies in the Lovejoy burial ground. To Brunney, who went to Michigan, 
succeeded John Eichardson, a native of Queens county, Ireland. He 
married, long since, Diana Plunket, as good a name as Erin ever pro- 
duced. They have four sons — John William, Irving, Frank and George 
— and one daughter, Sarah Jane. At the age of seventy-three, for he was 
born August 6, 1815, he tills his glebe, and waits the aid that government 
should give him for injuries sustained in the War. Already passed the 
age of military duty, he was a soldier in the 3d Light Artillery. 



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<Joing across the line into Huron, we come to the home of John Briggs. 
'He is a son of the late Jonathan Briggs of North Rose. The farm was long 
the home of Samuel Otto, whose wife was Eliza Miller. Mr. Otto had rented 
his farm and was living in the Valley. In the winter of 1870, while on 
the farm, he was killed by his tenant, Walter Graham. The latter died in 
Auburn prison years ago. Otto's two sous were in the army; James, of 
the 10th Cavalry, died in Andersonville ; Guilford, of the 6th Cavalry, 
was shot while acting as a scout ; one daughter is Mrs. Barrick of North 
Rose; the other is Mrs. Briggs. The Briggs children are Eliza, who 
married Nathan Turner of Sodus ; Olive, who is Mrs. Thomas Welch of 
North Rose ; and Jonathan F., a lad at home. Mr. Otto was Lyons born, 
one of sixteen children born to James Otto, who had moved from Pennsyl- 
vania in 1796. 

We are not quite through with this district yet, for going south from 
Carrier's corners we shall find, on the west side of the road, the farm of 
Avery Gillett. As early an occupant as we can find here was Russell 
Morris, brother of Orriu Morris, the predecessor of Henry Robinson, at 
the corners. The name is all that I have. It was his log house, into which 
John Gillett moved when he grew tired of living with his uncle, Asahel. 
He was born in Fort Ann, Washington county, and when twenty-three 
years old came to this town to live with his uncle, but the combination 
not proving a happy one, they separated and the nephew came here. His 
wife was Clarissa Jane Rich of the same township. From the log begin- 
ning to the present structure, the usual progress was made. Here they 
reared their children, and here they lived till war times, when they moved 
to the Valley, where Mr. Gillett died in 1866, aged fifty-nine years. Dur- 
ing his life he enjoyed the highest respect of all his acquaintances. He 
was a devoted and invaluable member of the Baptist Church. He was an 
intimate friend of the writer's grandfather, George Seel ye, and they were 
frequent visitors at each other's home. I can readily recall his cheery 
face, and for "Auld Lang Syne," forgive him for calling me "Bub " when 
helping him harness his horse. He and grandfather, on one hot August 
<lay in 1863, held the foot of the ladder and cheerfully discussed politics 
and religion, while I turned every screw in the blinds of the Baptist 
Church — those long blinds that recently came down when the church was 
made over. His widow subsequently married Justin Durfee of Palmyra, 
the father of the wives of Jared and Jefferson Chaddock. After his death 
she became the second wife of Gansevoort Center of Butler. Since his death 
she has continued to live in the village. When John Gillett left his farm, his 
son, Avery, was left at the head of affairs, and in his hands it still remains. 
The children of John and Jane Gillett were Melvin, who married Mabel 
Young, a granddaughter of Benjamin Seelye. He moved to Iowa, and 
there died, leaving a daughter, Ella. The writer remembers Melvin as an 



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excellent teacher, and has great j)leasure in paying this inadequate tribute 
to his memorj'. The second son was Avery, who married Augusta Jake- 
way, and lives in Clyde now. They have one sou, John C. Avery was 
in the army — the 9th Heavy Artillery. The next son, John Henry, we 
have met as the husband of Lucy Mason, and as such a resident in Michi- 
gan. Charles married Sarah Bowie of Huron. He was a good soldier in 
the 90th New York. He died in 1867, in his twenty-fifth year, and is 
buried in the Ellinwood enclosure. Mark, the youngest son, married 
Cassie Hoffman of Clyde. For a time he lived on the Van Antwerp place. 
He died several years ago, leaving two sons. Southward a grass-grown 
de[>ression attracts attention, and I find that thence rock was taken years 
, .since liy John Gillett for his adjacent lime kiln, and by the consequent 
income was he enabled to pay for his farm. ( Marcus Baker, a nephew of 
Julius, is in chai-ge now, 1893. He married Mary D. CTcnung, and 
their children are William G., Maud M., Benjamin and a boy baby.) 

Still further south and on the same side of the road is a small house 
marking the site of the early Crydenwise property. It is probable that the 
family came from Saratoga county, where Issac Crydenwise was married to 
Eleanor, daughter of John Covey, who took up the old Mirick place on the 
Clyde road, now the property of F. H. Closs. Mr. Ci-ydenwise was of 
Dutch extraction ; his wife of New England stock. They early moved to 
Ceneseo, where their children were born, and whence the husband enlisted 
as a soldier for the War of 1812. He, however, sickened and came home 
to die. The children were : Isaac, Jr., who married Sophia Thomas, and 
died in 1831, in his thirty-first year. He was buried in the Rose cemetery. 
His widow became the wife of Dr. J. J. Dickson. The other children were 
daughters, the oldest, Polly, who married Davis Hand, and finally died in 
Oakland county, Michigan ; Clarissa became the wife of Heman Foster, 
and died in Indiana ; Abigail married Aaron Foster, and died in Illinois ; 
Rachel was Mrs. John Fink, and died in Iowa, while Olive, sole survivor, 
became the wife of John Sherman in 1827, and lives in Joppa, Calhoun 
county, Michigan. Widow Crydenwise, first, married for her second hus- 
band Abraham Marsten, also of Saratoga county, and to them was born a 
son, Abraham, Jr. Mrs. Amos Dorris was a niece of Mrs. Marsten. This 
place was held by Dr. Dickson for many years, and from him or his heirs 
it passed to Avery Gillett. Near the John Gillett lime kiln Jos. Boynton, 
Sr. , built a log house in 1833. He sold to Eli Garlick, who was a black- 
smith, and had a small shop near, where work for'the neighbors was done. 
Through Elder, Marsten, Miner, etc., the place passed to A. Gillett. 

The end of this district is reached. In area it is one of the largest in 
the town, but like the other outlying ones, it does not have the school 
population of years ago. Readers have noticed how the dwellers here, as 
elsewhere in town, having gone to school together, there made acquaint- 



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ances that subsequently ripened into matrimony. Emigration has taken 
its — I am almost disposed to say — victims to the west, whence, I have no 
doubt, longing eyes have often been turned to the Lovejoy neighborhood. 

SCHOOL DISTRICT No. 3, OR THE LYMAN DISTRICT. 

January 24— April 11, 1889. 

In our rambles about Rose this is the first school district that we have 
reached lying entirely in the town, all the others having bordered on 
•adjacent towns. To the dwellers near the location of the district no 
.description is needed, but for those living remote, it may be stated that it 
lie.< south of the old Lamb's corners, now North Rose section, west of 
Stewart's corners, north of the Valley and east of the Co veil district. To 
€nt«r it, we may as well go north from Ensign "Wade's, past the old home 
of Ellis Ellinwood, that of Theodore McWharf, and our first halt will be 
at the house of the William Welch estate. Like many places in the 
neighborhood, it has seen many changes. In fact, in the district there are 
only four estates or parts of original i)urchases that remain in the families 
■of the first proprietors. This section was taken up by Asahel Gillett, Sr., 
and Samuel Hand, from whom it passed in turn to Samuel Southwick, Ira 
and Hiram Mirick and Thomas Barabo rough. An early name associated 
with this place is that of Alonzo Mace, and it is a name only. Ralph 
Fuller owned it for a while. The land attached was at first scarcely more 
than a garden spot. Then came Moses Carr as owner, though he lived in 
the next house north. Thomas J. Graves, a preacher, was an occupant 
for several years, then August Hetta, Thomas Cullen, and finally the 
Welches. During the holding of Moses Carr a division of land was made 
by him and his brother, Lyman, &o that the house had twenty-eight acres 
connected with it, and this is the amount now held, though the family has 
forty acres north of the next east and west road. William Welch was of 
Irish birth, and after many years of industrious living died, and was 
buried in the Catholic cemetery in Clyde. His wife, Mary, survives him 
and is still on the farm. (Died July 15, 1892, aged 63 years.) There are 
several children, as Helen, Mary Ann, Katie, Edward, William, deceased, 
Thomas and Joseph. The latter two maintain a hardware store in North 
Rose, and one of them is P. M., which is, after the language of the lamented 
Nasby, postmaster. The farm seems to be well managed and industry is 
everywhere evident. (Now occupied by Will Shear and family.) 

In the next house dwell Isaac Osborne and family. He is a posthumous 
child of that Isaac who was long since killed by a lightning stroke. His 
wife is Mary Burkle, a daughter of the man once living on the corner farm 
now owned by her husband. Their children are three girls and two boys. 



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Though he lives here his farm is further north, and just at present we are 
concerned with owners of this place. The place stands now in the name of 
Wm. Curtis, of Marion, who in some way traded with the late possessor, 
Philip Fry. Fry moved away three years since, and now resides near 
Newark. His wife is Catharine Cornell, and they have quite a family of 
children, as Amy, George, William, Daniel and Belle. They came here 
from the vicinity of Lyons, and Mr. F. is a brother of the George Fry who 
owned for a short time the old Carrier farm. Before the name of Fry, I find 
those of YanAlstyne and James Vanderburgh, who bought of Moses Carr. 
The latter was from Onondaga county, and went from Eose to Michigan, 
whence, I understand, he went into the army during the Rebellion. I 
believe he built the house. His predecessor was Thomas Bambo rough, 
who came to Rose from Lyons and went from this town to Michigan. He 
had married Widow Gee, and his farm numbered about one hundred acres. 
Back of Baniborough is chaos, though it is possible that the Mirick 
l)elongings covered this estate. 

Over the way in the days agone was a log house in which dwelt Lyman 
Carr, brother of Moses. The two brothers divided the Bamborough prop- 
erty, but finally this Carr formed part of the train westward. Nearly 
west of this i)lace may be noticed an old apple orchard. The east and west 
road once ran near it, coming out near the old Ellis Ellinwood home. Here 
were a log house and barn built by Samuel Hand. He was the father of 
John Skidmore's first wife. After Hand was James Gordon, a son-in-law 
of Jonathan Melvin, then John McWharf, Samuel Smith, a relative of the 
Miricks, and in 1834, Thomas Bamborough. Later came many tenants, 
till its disappearance in 1845. 

To the east of the corners is the old Oakes place, but this was described 
in the account of the Stewart district. It is the only one belonging to the 
Lyman neighborhood lying east of the terminus of the north and south 
roa<l. (In 1893 George H. Ball of North Rose built a barn upon this land 
on the north side of the road, having purchased the same from the Welch 
Brothers. He will also erect a house here.) Were the north and south 
road to continue, it would r\:n over a well covered by a small house on the 
Osborne property ; but to follow the line of the next range of lots, it makes 
a, jog to the west about ten rods, and then runs by Osborne's corners 
between lots 155 and 156. Just at the turn, on the southwest side or corner, 
formerly stood an evaporator built by Fry and Welch. This has been 
moved down to Ensign Wade's, but a small addition to it still remains. 

On the northeast corner of our road north, stands a new house built by 
Isaac Osborne. By-and-by, I presume, he or some other good citizen will 
occupy it, but just at present a thriving berry patch and a range for a 
promising pig have sadly encroached upon the dooryard. The barns 
opposite have long been landmarks and are much as they were years 



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ago. The house which preceded the new one was old, almost beyond tlie 
recollection of the present generation, though it is probable that it was 
built when the place was owned by Dr. Dickson. I can find no trace of 
ownership before that of Amos Dorris, and that is well back in the century. 
After him for a short time only, Cyrus Brockway held and occni)ied it. 
Then followed Dr. Dickson, but he never lived here. During his owner- 
ship there came a long succession of tenants ; among others was our often 
found friend, William Sherman. There are other names, as Cornelius 
Bamborough, Peter Paine, Thomas Cullen, Mark Gillett, John Lovejoy 
and W. Burkle. Just how many of these were nominally owners I have 
no means of stating. I am told that Osborne bought of Louis" Ebert, a 
Clyde glass-blower. In the years to come, it would be pleasant to note a 
continued occupancy, one that would develop the resources of the farm, 
and bring out the latent jjossibilities. Thus far it has been a sort of bucolic 
hotel. I am told that there have been forty successive occupants. Few 
places in the town enjoy a better situation. Amos Dorris, the first owner,, 
must have been a character, if surviving stories. be true. Here are speci- 
mens illustrating Tiis extravagance of speech : He lost his cow one day, 
the small bell she wore not serving to locate her. Say.s he: "I wish 
she wore a bell as big as that of Moscow. Every stroke of it would 
bring her on her knees." Again, the chipmunks made havoc in his corn. 
" I wish," said he, "I had a cannon that pointed in every direction; I'd 
load it to the muzzle and tech it off." "Why, then," interposed Mr. 
Wilcox, a former British soldier, "you'd hit yourself." "I wouldn't 
care," says the angry farmer, " if I only killed a chipmunk." 

As we progress westward we are on the old Eose and Nicholas purchase 
— that lot of 4000 acres, from one of whose owners the town took its name. 
Our first stop is at a small house, owned and occupied by Nicholas Powers, 
a native of Erin. He is an industrious man, who lays stone wall and does 
masonry generally. He has two children — Edward and Alice. Though 
there are only ten acres in the place, it has formed the home of a numerous 
family, as when held by the McWharfs, who sold it to Abner Osborne, and 
he to Mr. Powers. That we may know just who the McWharfs are, it will 
be necessary to go back a great many years to John McWharf, who was 
born in Providence, R. I. He there mairied and had two children, one of 
whom, James, jjassed his life in Canada. Coming to Onondaga county, 
this state, he married Hannah Skut, a sister of Orrin Skut of North Rose, 
and with his wife's father's family came to this town. He located first in 
a log house north of Lamb's corners, and near the farm of O. Skut, having 
then fifteen acres of land. Here he lived for several years, until he came 
down to the Lyman neighborhood, where he bought the small property of 
Harvey Gillett. Here, in time, he put up the small frame house now in 
existence, and whence he was borne to his still smaller house in the Rose 



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cemetery, in 1869, at the extreme age of ninety-five. His wife followed iu 
1872, aged eighty-eight. Of their children, Jane married Cornelius W. 
Fairbanks and died on the Alonzo Chaddock place. Fairbanks went to 
Wisconsin. Almira married William Lamb of the corners, and once lived 
where William Closs now abides. Both husband and wife are dead, and 
lie in the Rose burial ground. One of their children, Myron, was a soldier 
under Sherman in the Rebellion, and is now in Illinois. Malvina McWharf 
married Jerome McQueen ; Hayden L. married Mary, daughter of John 
Waterbury ; Theodore married Mary Stickles of Hillsdale, Columbia Co. 
They began their married life in a small building still standing in the 
corner of the Powers' dooryard, while attached to it was a still smaller 
structure, in which the McWharfs worked at coopering. Mr. McVA'lmrf, 
who enlisted in Company C, 111th N. Y., was captured at the unfortunate 
affair of Harper's Ferry, and was finally discharged on account of dis- 
ability. He now draws a pension for his services, and lives, still pursuing 
his trade, just north of Ensign Wade's. His family was quite numerous 
and included John M., who, having taken the degree of M. D. from both 
Buffalo and Chicago, lives now at Fort Scott, Kansas. He was for several 
years in Dunkirk, in this state, and in that section found his wife, Lucy 
Stryker ; Jane married Simeon Olmstead, and, a widow, lives in Clyde ; 
James married Delia Derby, and lives in North Huron, though he once 
dwelt in the house opposite ; Alice, the wife of Andrew Stickles, is dead ; 
John J. married Carrie Haugh of Galen, and lives at home ; Charles 
married Sarah Green of Junius ; Marietta is the wife of Alfred Sours of 
Galen'; while the youngest, George, is a dentist in Ontario, this county. 

Harvey Gillett, from whom McWharf bought, was one of the characters 
in the early history of the town. He was a cousin of Asahel, settled further 
north, and was of Connecticut birth, to which state, in Xew Canaan, he 
eventually returned to care for the closing years of his father's life, though, 
as we hear of Harvey, we wonder that he should be put to care for any- 
thing. As one neighbor says : "He was too lazy to be dissipated," but 
he was always hungry. The death of a child of this man is said to have 
been the first in the town. Amos Dorris gave to Gillett a life lease of one- 
half acre of ground, upon which he built his log cabin, and here clustered a 
brood of little Gilletts, of whom Julia became Mrs. Michael Ryan. Of the 
others, at present I can secure no trace. Stories of Gillett's gastronomic 
feats still linger after fifty years, and here is one of them : Having eaten a 
breakfast before starting for Abner Wood's, he called at Stephen Babcock's, 
now the Isaac Cole place, and, being invited, ate a second breakfast. When 
he reached Mr. Wood's, though a little late, he accepted a call to eat, and 
stowed away his third morning meal. His work was that of scoring 
timber ; but at ten o'clock in the forenoon he was seen to observe the sun 
with interest, saying : "I wonder if it isn't almost noon, for I am darned 



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hungry." Again, when working for Alpheus Collins, he sat up to the 
table for a little lunch, and Mrs. C. put before him a quantity of baked 
beans, just one-half of a mess cooked in the forenoon for the family and 
several workingnien. The first half had made the dinner, and she had 
«aved this lot for supper, but Harvey made nothing of downing the entire 
mess, and when asked if he would have anything more, remarked that he 
guessed he'd top off with a little milk, and actually there and then he 
drank a pan full of the lacteal fluid. Is there any wonder that a man with 
such an appetite was always poor ? 

Opposite, on the south side, is a small place belonging to Elbert Briggs, 
he liaving bought of Michael Londrigan, who went to the part of this dis- 
trict bordering on North Rose. Mr. L. probably bought of H. Metz. The 
liouse was built by L. H. Lyman in 1859, a brother of Jehu, next west. 
(Mr. Briggs has since sold.) 

For convenience we will pass the home of John Lyman, and near where 
the barn of his son William stands, we may fancy the first abode of the 
Lymans iu Rose. The prime comer was Samuel, a son of David and Flavia 
(Collins) Lyman, of Salisbury, Conn. As Flavia was a sister of the first 
Thaddeus Collins, her son was first cousin to Thaddeus, 2d, Alpheus and 
the other children of the pioneer. The first visit was made in the fall of 
1817, and in the following spring came the family, in the customary way, 
viz., by ox team and sled. Betterments had been made ou the hundred 
acre lot by John Drury, a son of the Caleb already mentioned. These were 
bought and payments were made to the firm of Rose & Nicholas. In the 
log house the family remained until 1837, when the framed house opposite, 
and occupied by Charles Lyman, was buflt. In this Samuel Lyman died, 
in 1877, aged eighty-three, while his wife had preceded him, in 1870, at 
the age of seventy- seven. It should have been stated that her maiden name 
was Clementina Evarts, of the family that has since furnished a United 
States senator from the state of New York. "Old Mr. Lyman," as he 
was generally known, was one of the most vigorous Abolitionists in Rose. 
1 am told that the old horse barn, once near the road, has concealed more 
runaway slaves than any other building in town. He was currently 
1 eported to be a station man on ihe underground railroad. For one, I take 
no little pleasure iu writing these words, for such a record should be a 
source of pride to his descendants and to his town. The oldest son, John, 
married Eleanor Griggs, of Seneca county, and made his initiative house- 
keeping in a log structure standing in the field to the southwest. No trace 
of this now exists. This particular spot is almost classic in our annals, 
for here, in the early years of the century, Zenas Fairbanks opened the 
first store in the town. Here, too, was an ashery, and near, probably the 
first lime kiln. Charles Lyman's farm barn is very near the site of the 
kiln. I understand that the Fairbanks family lived first on the Linus 



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Osgood farm, possibly the very first settlers there. Afterward, I am told, 
they had a habitation on the Thomas ridge, further south. Zenas married 
a daughtei- of Alverson Wade, while George found a wife in John Wade's 
family,, and Cornelius we have seen as the spouse of one of the McWharfs. 
Northwest of this point, near the present home of Michael McDorman, a 
bear was slain by one of the early settlers, perhaps Samuel Southwick, 
whose cabin was a mile or so south. John Lyman afterward bought thirty- 
four acres of Moses Carr, including the house in which he now lives. The 
successive owners of this place were the same as those of the next place 
east, though we shall find near here, as early as 1831, the family of Eichard 
I). Morey. His wife was Sally Harris and they came from Saratoga county, 
though it is probable that they had lived in Warren county. Tlicy after- 
ward lived on the A' alley road, south of Shear's corners. Let us now, 
however, continue with the Lymans. John's oldest child is Caroline. Then 
follow Charles E., William D., John D., who married Minnie Parslow, 
(they liave one child, Ella); and Samuel H., who, a graduate of the Albany 
State Normal School, is a successful teacher, being now at the head of the 
Pulaski union school. (John Lyman died January 14, 1892, aged 72 
years.) Samuel Lyman had several other children, as follows: Caroline, 
who married Cyrus Felt, and died west ; Mary, deceased ; Charles ; David, 
who married Emma Chalker, ami lives in the Valley, though he once dwelt 
near here ; Lavius H. married Ella Branch, of Onondaga county, and, as 
we have seen, once lived in the place next east. After the War he migrated 
to Arkansas-, and still lives there ; Frederick, now dead, married in Illinois. 
He rose to the rank of captain during the Rebellion. Flavia married Levi 
Chase, from New Hampshire, and once lived on the corner, in the Dr. Dick- 
son house. (Mr. Chase, now living in Sturbridge, Mass., is a genealogist 
an<i local history writer of note.) Samuel, the youngest son, married 
Sarah Vanderberg and lives in the Valley. 

Crossing the road we find the new house of William D. Lyman, who 
married Mary Hoyt, a cousin of Orson Toles' wife. Their children are 
Maggie, Edith and Benjamin. As the house stands so near the first log 
house, Mr. Lyman may take a little pride in maintaining the family suc- 
cession. 

Zigzagging to the south side, we have the house built by Samuel Lyman. 
To be sure, it has been somewhat remodeled, but it is substantially the 
same. Here resides Chas. Lyman, in a state of so-called single blessed- 
ness. But as the Bible has said that it is not good for man to be alone, 
there must be a contradiction somewhere. Mr. Lyman, in the language of 
Lafayette, is a lucky dog. The French patriot, at a great party given in 
Boston, on being introduced to a young married man, shook him vigorously 
by the hand, saying, "Happy man! happy man!" Soon after, meeting 
another gentleman and asking him if he was married and getting a negative 



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reply, he slapped him on the shoulder, exclaiming : " Lucky dog." Some 
one querying as to whom Lafayette intended to say the best thing, a bright 
listener at once said : "Any one knows that a happy man is better than a 
lucky dog." Mr. Lyman keeps his property in excellent condition, though 
many observers are wondering when the fine pear orchard west of his 
house will begin to bear. The first house on the Lyman farm stood nearly 
in front of Charles Lyman's barn, and was built by Eichard Avery, Sr., 
who had been a soldier in the French and Indian War and in the Revolu- 
tionary. His son, Eichard, was in the late War. He was father-in-law of 
the first Joel Bishop and of Asahel Gillett, Sr. After him were two ten- 
ants, one of whom was Davis Hand, who married Polly Crydenwise. The 
builder sold to Chester EUinwood, who was here for a while and then 
traded with Samuel Southwick for the farm where Ensign Wade lives. The 
succession is Mirick, Bamborough, James Phillips, Moses Carr, John 
Lyman. 

Continuing our zigzag way, we find another Lyman domiciled on the 
north side. This one is Charles P., a son of John. His wife is Lydia E. 
Horton, and they have four children— Viola, Ealph, Mary and Ida. The 
house was built by David Lyman, one of the second generation in these 
parts. This clinging to the old sod and soil of this family is very pleasant 
to contemplate, and I doubt not, in storing up this world's goods, they 
have quite as much to show as they would have had had they, like some 
others, been constantly on the move. 

Our next stop is at a house on the north side, belonging to John Lyman. 
It stands on the old Lyman farm, which, lacking ten acres, lay entirely on 
the north side of the road. The site was bought and built upon by one 
Lancaster. It was also owned by the elder Oaks and by a Mr. Farnsworth, 
who now lives in Glenmark. Eli Knapp has also occupied it. Without 
intending to disparage any former occupant, we may be pardoned for feel- 
ing glad that another John Lyman, he of the third generation is, living 
here. 

To Charles Lyman I am indebted for many facts, and thanks are espe- 
cially due for the following incident : Samuel Lyman always braved public 
opinion when it conflicted with his sense of right and duty, and in the 
year 1830, being engaged in building a small barn, and having then recently 
read Dr. Lyman Beecher's •' Six Sermons on Temperance," he felt that it 
would be wrong for him to furnish liquor at the raising, and he determined 
not to do so. Taking no pains to conceal his purpose, it became noised 
about that Lyman was going to have a cold water raising, a thing unheard 
of at that day and age of the world.. Consequently a large crowd was 
attracted— some to lift up and others to pull down, among the latter not 
only regular old topers, but staid and sedate church members. The 
builder, a sober man and excellent citizen, was evidently in sympathy with 



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the " hot water " sentiment, as the tone of his commands was wonderfully 
tame and feeble, the effect of which was apparent when the first bent, after 
havinjr been started, became stationary, and it seemed certain that the 
attpni])t to raise it would end in failure, when a Baptist preacher named 
Ansel Gardner, who, five years later, built the Baptist Church at the 
Valley, springing forward with fiie in his eye and with the exclamation, "I 
can raise that bent," rang out his commands in tones so positive and 
determined that the lifters were animated with new energy, and the bent 
moved right along to its place. The incident had the effect of shaming the 
boss into a proper performance of his duty, and the first cold water raising 
in the town was successfully accomplished. Years after, a neighbor, C. 
W. Fairbanks, was heard to relate in connection with the foregoing cir- 
cumstance : " When the first bent was going up, I noticed that some one 
standing beside me was pulling down, and by a quick movement I shoved 
the hand of the obstructionist off the beam." The barn alluded to was the 
one so long standing near the road, and in which numerous Africans after- 
ward halted on their way to liberty. True, the edifice is, in a double sense, 
a monument. Standing now, well back from the road, it is still a strong- 
tribute to cold water raising. 

The Moreys have already been referred to as residents in this section. 
I have learned that the first Richard D. Morey was a half brother of the 
first Mrs. Jeremiah Finch. The Morey family came in 1831, having filially 
remained east until after the death of Mrs. Morey's aged mother. On 
coming to these parts, Mrs. M. died first, and afterwai-d Mr. Morey mar- 
ried widow Wilcox. With her first husband, she had lived in a log house 
near where "Ham " Closs now lives. The neighbors say that when Mr. W. 
was dying, his bed was the fioor, and some one calling to ask how he was, 
his wife cheerfully replied : "Oh, he's slowly wasting away," he getting 
no more attention than a log of wood. She had a daughter, Julia Ann, who 
married Jeremiah Finch, 2d, and a son, Richard, both of whom went west. 
This second marriage, I fancy, was none of the happiest, and going down 
to Saratoga to visit his oldest son, Mr. Morey died and was buried 
there. There were ten children, evenly divided as to sex : Jesse, the 
oldest, remained east ; Elijah married Harriet Lovejoy, who, after his 
death, married Watson Dowd, and lived in Huron ; William married 
widow Burch, nee Havens; Richard Derrick, called "Derrick," married 
Almina Kelsey, who lived at " Holl " Drury's ; and H. Delevan, one of 
twins. He makes his home with Norman Lovejoy. The oldest daughter, 
Mapelet, never lived in Rose, for having married John Crapo, went 
directly west ; Lydia we have seen as the hospitable wife of Norman Love- 
joy; Charity married Nelson Lovejoy, of Wolcott ; Charlotte is Mrs. Philip 
Thomas, of Huron, while the twin, Nancy Ann, is Mrs. Abram DePew, of 
Wolcott. Mrs. Norman Lovejoy is my chi^f informant concerning the 



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Moreys, and what she diesn't recall concerning her early life in Eose is 
hardly worth remembering. She says: "I tell yon, there was lots of 
spinning and weaving going on in those days. We had to work the wool 
for winter's wear and the flax to make linen for summer. I could spin my 
three runs of tow in less than a day. Laws! the girls nowadays don't 
know anything about work." On my asking her what constituted a iiin 
of tow, she replied: "I guess you don't know much about weaving. 
Why, twenty knots, of course." Lest I should still further expose ray 
ignorance, I forebore asking the extent of a knot, and to this day can not 
tell whether the word has to do with the intertwining of strings or is in 
some way allied to nautical language, as " twenty knots an hour." Con 
tinning, she ran on thus : " Brother Lige got a neighbor to make a broad- 
cloth coat for him, and to pay for it, I had to spin thirty-two run of wool 
for her. I did it, but I had to work for it. Why, one day, a good many 
years afterward, a friend came along here and he asked me if I remem- 
ber the spinning. I tolf>him I did, very well. 'Why,' said he, 'you'd 
spin two runs before ten o'clock, then go home and get dinner and be back 
again before one o'clock and spin two more. How you did make things 
fly.' Oh, I could spin and wash and keep busy. Old Mrs. Mirick, just 
after we came up here, invited me and my sisters to a party, and we were 
the only ones in our neighborhood who had an invite. I tell ye, it just sot 
us way up." Mrs. L.'s conversation gave me a vivid picture of times 
more than fifty years away. How many boys of today have sisters who 
would give eight days' hard work to pay for making said boy's coatf I 
await an answer. 

Once more crossing the highway, we may enter the home of Michael 
McDorman. The latter, though of Irish birth, came hither nine years ago 
from Canada, and, having purchased a few acres of land, has erected a cosy 
house near an excellent barn, everything indicating the utmost thrift. His 
wife is Dillene Quertershan, a lady of the Canadian French. They have a 
promising family, consisting of Michael, Carrie, John and Edward. 
Exemplary members of the Eose Methodist Church, they enjoy the 
highest respect of their neighbors. 

Visions of school ma'ams and of pedagogic sway dance before ns as we 
approach the next building, for it is the school-house : the place where the 
young ideas of the district are taught to shoot, and the edifice itself is 
highly creditable to those who built it. Painted white, with green blinds, 
it is no " ragged beggar by the roadside sunning." It is the second build- 
ing on the site, erected in 1879, though the first school-house in the dis- 
trict was made of logs and stood to the westward over the hill, where Mr. 
Shear's tenant house now stands. There were two framed buildings there 
also. The first school-house was burned. I am wondering whether the 
youth of this neighborhood should be called "hard students" that they 



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maDaged thus to use up five buiUlingjs. From the district school many a, 
boy aud ^irl went to the seminaries in other places, thus securing advan- 
tages that were denied to the fathers and mothers. The present location 
is singularly near the exact centre of the district. 

The next move takes us to the four corners, where we may see, facing 
the setting sun, what was, when erected, the very finest house in Rose. 
Now the property of Peter Shear, it was built by John Gloss before 1S2S. 
Though we have the record complete of this farm for more than sixty j"ears, 
the very earliest history is a little nebulous. If, as I have seen it stated, 
Oliver Whitmore was located just south of Joel Bishop, then he must have 
held this place once. Before him may have been a Mr. Belden. " 'Scpiire " 
Whitmore's son, Seth, was a surveyor, and to him is due the angle in the 
road near the Lyman farm. Possibly Mr. Gloss may have purchased his 
betterments. John Gloss, the progenitor of the Rose family of that name, 
was of New Jersey birth, very likely of remote Dutch origin, and his name 
must have passed through an interesting transition, perhaps from Klaus 
to its present English form. His parents had moved to the vicinity of 
Lyons, whence our subject moved to Rose. Before coming here, he had 
held contracts in constructing the Erie canal. However the farm had 
been held before Gloss' coming, his payments were made to the Rose and 
Nicholas purchase. The place lay on all four corners, and was unexcelled 
in convenience and fertility. At his coming, in 1S25, he dwelt in a log 
house jusP below the southeast angle of the cross roads. But Mr. Gloss 
had the means and the disposition to rear for his family a more seemly 
habitation, and the present structure was the result of his building, though 
much of the material had to be brought from Jack's Rifts. Perhai)S the 
family moved in in 1827. At any rate, the youngest children, twins, were 
born here in 1828. The good wife was Hannah Hamel, a native of Verona, 
Oneida Go. Their children were Harvey, about whom there will be more 
anon; George, who died in 1848 ; Lorenzo, who manned, in Ohio, a Miss 
Taylor. He afterward held an appointment in a government office in 
Washington, and from Georgetown Gollege his two sons, Ghaiies and 
Prank, were graduated. He now lives in New York City. The fourth son, 
Galeb Hamel, known familiarly in Rose as "Ham," we shall meet later. 
There were only three girls in the family, and of these two were twins. 
The elder sister, Eveline Adelia, died in 1848. The twin sisters, Juliette 
and Anjenette, were born in 1828, and, if reports be true, they were the 
light of the household in that, to those rural regions, palatial homi?. I 
have heard my mother say, when passing this house, "How many pleas- 
ant hours I have passed there with the twins." Juliette became the wife 
of Willis G. Wade, son of John, the pioneer, but died in 18.59. Near her, 
in the cemetery, lie her husband and infant son. Anjenette died in 185.3. 
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in 1831, in her thirty-seventh year. Upon the eldest son, Harvey, cares 
were thus thrown very early ; but I have never learned that he faltered for 
a moment. He married, in 1836, Evelina Henderson, daughter of Gideon, 
in the Stewart district, and until 1856 dwelt on the paternal acres. Here 
his only son, Frank, was born, and thence two infant daughters were borne 
to the cemetery. In 1856 he exchanged with Peter Shear his old home, 
taking in part payment the present abode of Wm. Closs, to the west- 
ward. In 1S5H he moved into the Valley district, taking the well known 
stone house of Hiram Mirick, and here lived until 1876, when, selling out, 
he went still nearer the centre of the village, this time to the old Collins 
home, and here he dwelt until his death, January 6, 1886. I am sure I 
speak within bounds when I state that no resident of this town ever 
more deservedly enjoyed the thorough respect of his fellow- townsmen than 
Harvey Closs. In 1857 and 1858 he was supervisor of the town, and was 
long a prominent member of the Piesbyterian Church. To the writer, both 
Ml-. Closs and his wife have additional interest from the fact that Mr. Closs 
went to school to George S"3elye, his grandfather, and Mrs. Closs to Cath- 
arine Shepard, his grandmother, while their only son was a school-mate 
in Falley Seminary. Mrs. Closs, the widow, is passing the evening of 
life very pleasantly in the home whence she may overlook the village. 
We now come to the present occupant of the old Closs farm, Peter Shear. 
He was born in Coeymans, Albany county, his name indicating a Dutch 
origin. His wife, Mary, bore the cognomen of Shear befor^ as well as 
after marriage. They came to this town thirty-five years ago, living first 
on the Van Sicklen farm, near Huron, and they came here in 1859. Mrs. 
Shear lives now on another farm, owned by Mr. Shear in Junius, Seneca 
county. The husband lives a divided life, managing thus two farms. His 
home in Junius he visits weekly, remaining here the rest of the time. He 
has long been kuown as a successful speculator in stock, perhaps more 
prominent in this respect than any other man in the town. In this farm 
there are 166 acres. His children, all born in Rose, are Stephen, Gertrude, 
"William, Fred, George and Minnie. With the exception of William they 
are in Seneca county, where Stephen married. William we shall see 
again. A divided interest necessitating the absence of the gentler portion 
of the household, may account for the lack of fix-uped-ness that once per- 
vaded the corner. There are slats wanting in the blimls, and we note the 
absence of that intensity of green and white that we like to see in blinds 
and house. Mr. Shear's family, I am told, are Progressive Friends. (Mr. 
Shear died January 26, 1890, aged seventy years. The place is now owned 
l)y Edward Welch, who has made all the improvements called for in the 
home, and more. His wife is Sarah Buckley, and they have one son, William. 
Mr. Welch came to this farm in April, 1893. His brothers, Thomas and 
Joseph, own that part of the old farm south of the east and west road, and 



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also some near the school-house. They have this season erected a large, 
handsome barn near the corner, and will later move the house north of the 
barn, and, perhaps, make it a counterpart of their brother's fine residence 
on the other side of the road.) 

Still moving westward, we pass at our right a tenement house of Mr. 
Shear, and soon come to a very pleasant place, the home of William Closs, 
" Ham's" younger son. Here, too, in antiquarian researches, we are lost 
in obscurity, for as yet I can go no further back than James Andrews, 
who was there as early as 1826. He sold to Solomon Whitney, and he to 
William Lamb, whom we have already noted as the husband of Almira 
McWharf. As owner, then came Peter Shear, and in 1856, Harvey Closs. 
Frank Sherman then held it for a time, and to him succeeded Joel Sheffield, 
repeatedly met in our town jottings. He and his wife, Nannie Osgood, 
began their married life here, and here resided for some years, until Hamel 
Closs, desiring a home near at hand for his sou, John, bought and located 
John and his lately wedded wife, " Gustie " Saunders, in this comfortable 
abode. But John tired of the farm and went west long ago, and is now 
living in Detroit, Michigan. After a succession of tenants, came the 
younger sou, William, who married Emma Hillman of Webster, Monroe 
county, and after living with his parents for a while, came hither. He 
has two children, Ralph and Archer. 

Something more than a stone's throw beyond, is the dwelling of Stanton 
E. Waldruff, who, a native of Galen, married Frances Vanderburgh, and 
thereby came to this farm, for many years held by William S. Vanderburgh. 
He was a native of Columbia county, and married Lovina Clapper. For 
many years he tilled these acres, and, full of years, died about two years 
since. Both he and his wife, who passed away in 1883, sleep in the Rose 
cemetery. Sarah, their oldest child, married Samuel Lyman. John W., 
the next child, and only son, after serving in the 9th Heavy Artillery dur- 
ing the War, went west and has been lost to the knowledge of his friends. 
The next daughter, Etta, became the wife of James Covell of the adjacent 
district on the west. Emma married Gideon Barrett of the Jeffers neigh- 
borhood. Mr. and Mrs. Waldruff, who hold the paternal roof tree, have 
three children. Fred, who having taken for his wife Lizzie Harmon, lives 
in the Valley. ( Fred died May 16, 1893, in Allegan, Michigan. Etta 
was married in 1891 to George W. Rice of Huron, leaving Edna only 
at home). A much enlarged and improved barn indicates progress. 
In fact, I am reminded, as I go about, of the great improvement in farm 
buildings. What would the i:)ioneers say, could they awake and arise, to 
a barn with matched siding and painted, yes, actually painted ? Why, in 
those earlier days it was rare that paint could be afforded for the house, 
let alone the barn. Before the Vanderburghs, this was the home of William 
Havens, twice encountered in the Lake district. He built the house. In 

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the Eose cemetery I fiud inscriptions to the memory of William V. Havens 
and Susan, his wife. They died, she in 1848, aged sixty-four, and he, full 
of years, in 1875, for he had attained the unusual age of ninety-five. The 
Havens bought of Harley Way, and he of Dr. Peter Valentine, who had 
helped his brother, Asahel, in paying for the place. The Havens came to 
this town from Cato. They had two sons — Dexter and William — now 
living in Weedsport, and several daughters, of whom one became Melesse 
Lawrence of Weedsport; another, Mrs. Hunt ; and Sally married a Drake- 
ford and went to the west ; another became Mrs. Elias Wood, already 
noted in the Lake district. 

Continuing toward the west, we find at our right the home of Edwin 
W. Catchpole, a part of the large Catchpole estate. Here Mr. Catchpole, 
with his wife, Alice Rich of Marion, and their infant sou, George C, takes 
all the comfort that can come to mortals. ( Besides George C.,' there are 
now children : Alice A., Rutherford Hayes and Edwin W., Jr.) Mr. 
Catchpole bought the place of the Klinck heirs ; for it was here, in 1877, 
fhat Henry Klinck passed from mortality to immortality, a death that to 
humanity seemed especially untimely, since there was a large family of 
children seemingly demanding a father's care. There were Henry, who, 
married, now lives in Shortsville ; George, who married a Harper, and 
lives in the Valley with his mother, his wife having died ; Cafrie is the 
wife of George Brown of Chili ; William lives in the Valley ; Edward ; 
Ellsworth, generally known as "Allie;" and Bert, who, I think, was bora 
here. George and Will are painters. Mrs. Klinck lives in the village, 
and at her home her aged father, Artemas Osgood, died in 1887. Mr. 
Klinck bought of John D. Waterbury, who, as was also his wife, Emma 
Adams, was bom in Nassau, Rensselaer county. In 1847 they came to 
Galen, and the next year to Rose, and here they remained for nearly 
twenty years, going hence, in 1867, to Huron. He afterward went to 
Pontiac, Michigan, where he died in 1884, aged seventy-six years. His 
wife died in 1862, at the age of forty-eight years. Her remains were after- 
ward carried to Michigan also. The living of our town have generally 
gone to that Peninsular state, but this is the first instance, in my knowl- 
edge, of the removal of the dead to that much sought locality. They were 
respected citizens, members of the Baptist Church. Of their five children, 
three grew to adultship, viz., Mary E., who married Hayden Lamb of 
Huron, but a member of our Rose family. They live in Pontiac, Michigan; 
Hiel Adams married Harriet Williams of Nassau, and resides in Clyde ; 
Emma E. married James Rockwell of Pontiac, and died very suddenly in 
1887. William Morey of the same school district, who had married the 
widow Burch, a daughter of William Havens, was the preceding owner, 
and he built the framed house. His predecessor was Hosea Howard, a 
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Just a little west of opposite is another house, with large barns con- 
nected, now the property of George Catchpole, who bought it in 1SG6 from 
Mr. Pitcher, who in turn had purchased a short time before from the heirs 
of Rufus R. Weeks, who was killed in the Valley in 1861 at the raising of 
a flag pole. This was a very distressing incident. After the injury Mr. 
Weeks was borne, insensible, into the adjacent hotel, now Pimm's, where, 
for three or four days, he lay unconscious until death came to his relief. 
Mr. Weeks was a native of Rensselaer county, but he moved to this town 
from Galen. Taken away thus in the prime of life, the loss to his family 
and friends was irreparable. Active and industrious, the raising of a 
pole seemed small compensation for the loss. The farm of fifty-one acres 
Mr. Weeks had bought of Alpheus Roberts, now of Huron, and he from 
Elias R. Cook of Sodus. The latter had not occupied, but had simply 
rented. At present I can go no further into the past. Mr. Catchpole has 
added largely to the barns, until now they are among the very largest fii 
the vicinity. 

When we come to the next house, that of George Catchpole, we have 
reached the western limit of the district and one of the land- 
marks of the neighborhood, for it was to this place that the brothers 
Pomeroy and Elizur Flint came in 1817. Pomeroy lived only two years, 
leaving a youthful wife, whom his brother married. The Flints were from 
Coventry, Conn., and coming here took up one hundred and ten acres, upon 
which imi^rovements had been made by one Paine and a log house built. 
Probably the latter came in 1810, and through his betterments, the land 
cost the Flints nine dollars per acre. The framed house that Deacon Flint 
in time built was a part of the upright of the present commodious farm 
house. The wife was Roxy Howard, a good specimen of the go-ahead 
Connecticut woman, and a model housekeeper. She died many years since, 
at the age of 70 years. Her husband survived until 1884, being then 
ninety-one years old. There are few characters standing out more promi- 
nently in town history than that of Deacon Flint. In 1812, he shouldered 
his musket, and, with others, helped man the fort at New London when 
assailed by the British, and for this service he became eventually a pen- 
sioner of the United States. He was once supervisor, and for many years 
served as a justice of the peace. He was the mainstay in the Presbyterian 
Church and one of its earliest members. His face, full of decision and will, 
is not often reproduced. Ever industrious, he rested but little, as some 
folks understand the word, even in his age. Two children grew up — 
Calista, who wedded George Catchpole, and Dwight, who married George's 
sister, Mary. The Catchpoles are of English birth, and George was born 
in Moulton, Norfolk Co. On coming to this country, they reached Huron 
by way of Geneva. In Huron, the brothers, Robert and James, located on 
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industry and worth. George, having won the deacon's daughter, began 
housekeeping in Hui-on, just east of his father's. Dwight Flint soou after 
contemplated matrimony with Mary Catchpole. For some reason he did 
not care to take his wife to his old home to live ; so one day the deacon 
rode up to George's, but delayed making known his mission. Something^ 
was on his mind, but it was not until a good dinner had lubricated his 
tongue that he spoke his mind. Then moving back his chair, he said : 
" I may as well let you know what I came here for. The truth of the mat- 
ter is, we want you two to come and live with us. Dwight doesn't want 
to take his wife. home, and I don't see how we can get along without you. 
There needn't be any fuss about it. When Dwight is ready, just let him 
come here, taking everything, and you come to the old place." Says 
George C: "I don't suppose there was ever quite such a trade effected 
before nor since. I Vas satisfied with my place given me by my father. 
It was well stocked and the house was furnished. I asked my wife what 
she thought about it, and she replied that we should have to go. Well, 
one day Dwight rode off and got married. After a short trip, he came up 
to my place to stay over night. In the morning, wife and I got into his 
buggy and drove down here, leaving everything of ours there and taking 
all that we found here. That was in 1859, and there was never a shade of 
difference or trouble from that day to this over the trade." Calista (Flint) 
Catchpole died in 1872, and, subsequently, Mr. C. married Mary, 
youngest daughter of Artemas Osgood. Their home has everything neces- 
sary for comfort. Surrounded by great learns to receive the product of the 
210 acres of the farm, our farmer friend ought to reign a veritable king on 
his domain. Five times his fellow townsmen have made Mr. Catchpole 
supervisor of the town. Fond of travel, he has once revisited England to 
see the early home, and has in mind to go again at no distant day. His 
only son, Edwin, we have just passed to the eastward. (Mr. Catchpole 
later moved to the Valley, and there his wife died in 1893. His son, 
Edwin, now occupies the farm.) 

Having followed this road through the district, we shall avoid turning 
on our tracks by imagining ourselves transported to the old home of 
Chauncey Bishop. It is just south from the old burial ground — some- 
times called Briggs' cemetery — and opposite. The house is now the home 
of Elder Anson H. Stearns and his wife, who was Charity M. Bishop, 
daughter of Chauncey, who found his wife in the present town of Butler, 
Chloe Wheeler, eldest daughter of Eli Wheeler, one of the earliest comers 
to that town, then making a part of the old town of Wolcott. She had 
taught school near in 1817 and 1818, and in the fall of 1818 was mar- 
ried. The groom's party, about twenty in number, went to Butler on 
horseback. In common with all pioneers, they began their life in a log 
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in 1S23. A visit to this edifice will lepay any one who likes the old. It 
has been changed very little, if any ; large posts and beams, all arranged 
for strength and convenience. Overhead there is no plastering, but the 
sleepers are bare, now, of course, being destitute of the nails and hooks 
which formerly were so handy. From these were suspended many con- 
venient articles for househould use, as strips of dried pumpkin and beef. 
Strings of apples were dried by the heat that the wide fireplace afforded. 
Everything tended toward hospitality, for which the early settlers were 
noted. The family that grew up here, though not so large as the first 
generation, was still an extensive one. The oldest, Charles C, is in Man- 
chester, Ont. Co. Charity M. married Eev. A. H. Stearns, a Baptist minis- 
ter of Massachusetts birth, being a native of West Hampton. He came to 
this state in 1861, and has been an especially successful pastor in South 
Butler, Wolcott and elsewhere. Together, they maintain the honors of the 
old homestead. Candace W. became Mrs. Chester Williams, of Huron. 
He dying, she moved to Illinois ; as did also the next brother, D. Clinton, 
who married Mary Ann Mead, of Phelps. (Clinton Bishop died Feb. 2-t, 
1892.) The next son, Cicero, was drowned in Stony Lake, Michigan ; John 
Calvin, a civil engineer, married Mary Avery, of Lj'ons, and now lives at 
Pilgrimspoit ; Cephas B., having taken Sarah C^haddock as his wife, dwells 
in the Valley ; Celestia wedded Samuel F. Weaver, of Illinois, while the 
youngest, Cliauncey E., having married Mary Butler, of Weedsport, and 
after living in these parts for some years, went to Kansas, where he now 
resides. Cliauncey Bishop was another of those devoted men who gave an 
excellent reputation to the town. One of the constituent members of the 
Eose Baptist Church, he was for more than forty years its clerk. He 
died in 1880, in his ninetieth year. Plis wife, who was born in Cairo, 
Greene Co., died in 187S, in her eighty-first year. 

At one time or another the land near here must have been dotted with 
the log habitations of the first comers. The small edifice, a little south of 
opposite, stands near one of the early abodes, that of Samuel Hand ; but in 
recent times it dates from Elbert Briggs, a son of Jonathan. John Groes- 
cup came next, then Luman Briggs, Elbert's brother, then S. Wing Langley, 
who has improved the house. His wife is Mary Brisbiu, eldest daughter 
of James Brisbin, of North Rose. Mr. Langley is a son of Milieus L., who 
once lived on the old Joel Bishop farm across the way. (The children here 
are Guy M., Eugene M. and Lillian E.) Being on the old Briggs farm, the 
house belongs to the North Rose district. 

Again crossing the road, we may find a new house, an ornament to the 
street, where lives Michael Londrigan, whom we first met in the Lyman 
neighborhood. He came originally fi'om Waterford, Ireland. His wife is 
Bridget Dunn. There are fifty acres in the farm. He has a family of two 
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118 EOSE NEIGHBOKHOOD SKETCHES. 

Mary, is dead. He bought of Johu Stewart, who held only a short time, 
having come from Lyons, to which place he returned on selling. Stewart 
bought from Chauncey Bishop, 2d, who built the new house, the old one, 
built by his grandfather, having been burned while he was away in Weeds- 
port to get his wife. Though the new house is undoubtedly an improve- 
ment, one cannot help regretting the old, especially it of the least antiqua- 
rian dispQsitiou. Before him was John Briggs, one of Jonathan's sons, 
whom Myron Langley preceded. Myron was a son of Millens L. His 
wife was Elizabeth Hibbard, of Butler, a sister of Marshall and Hamilton. 
The Langleys came from Huron to Eose. Millens' wife was Nancy Mosher. 
They had several children, as Melissa, Myron, Willard and Wing, then 
Julia, Emeline, who married a Whiting of Sodus, and Mary, wife of John 
D. Proseus, of Sodus. Elder John Bucklin, who preceded Langley, was 
one of the early Baptist preachers. To this place, the first Joel Bishop 
brought his sons and daughters, at any rate those who were not old 
enough to make homes of their own. He was an old Eevolutionary soldier, 
born in Guilford, Conn., Oct. 2, 1757, but coming hither from Charleston, 
Montgomery county, where he had already essayed a pioneer's life. He 
prospected in the winter of 1810—11, and in the spring his oldest son, 
Chauncey, and son-in-law, John Burns, came through afoot and began 
work. Burns was on lot 132, and Chauncey built a log house just where 
Londrigan's mansion is. The family followed in sections, but all were 
here in March, 1812. Here he lived for many years until a desire to be 
with his sons, Elijah and Reuben, prompted him to go to Ohio, where he 
and his wife, Phcebe Avery, died in Havana, Huron Co. Their family 
was a large one, so large that the largest modern house, with our notions 
of comfort, would not hold the young Bishops. Four .sons and nine 
daughters lived to have homes of their own and to add lustre to the family 
name. Joel Bishop was the sixth in descent from John Bishop, who, in 
1639, settled in Guilford, Conn. During the Revolution he was for a 
time a prisoner of war in New York City. He never had any love for a 
Redcoat. In 1837, when 80 years old, he went to the Wilderness for the 
fourth time. He died at the age of 84 years. Chauncey and his family we 
have already passed, but there was a Joel, Jr., who made his early home 
on the Bender place. His wife was Zemira Slaughter (a cousin of the 
famous John G. Saxe), whom I find among the very first members 
of the Methodist Church in Rose. He afterward went to Butler, some- 
where in the forties, and lived many years, finally dying there. Elijah 
married Jerusha Howard, a niece of Mrs. Flint, and began living his con- 
nubial life in a log hou.se just south .if his father's. Reuben married 
Sarah Ann Gardner, of Lock Berlin. He lived with his father until the 
western fever took both him and the elder Bishops to the state of Ohio. 
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Buudy, wLose children were : Sally, who married George Stewart ; Phrebe 
became the wife of Thomas Lewis and went west ; Joel married a distant 
relative, also named Bundy, and died forty years since, near Fulton, N. 
Y. Another brother, Stephen, lived just west of Stewart's corners, in- a 
little house only recently destroyed, and being in the south at the begin- 
ning of the War, he is supposed to have lost his life in some way as an 
enemy to secession; and yet another, Truman, who moved to Missouri and 
died single. For a second husband Anna married Asahel Valentine, a 
brother of Dr. Peter. For a while they lived on the Vanderburgh place, 
then in the Valley. Joel B.'s second daughter, Clara, married John Burns, 
and was one of the first, if not the very first, settlers on the Benjamin 
Seelye place, in the North Rose district. He sold either to Henry Graham 
or Seelye. He also had a good sized family, as Bishop, who took for his 
wife Olive Fuller, the daughter of Jonathan F., met in District No. 5. 
Jane Burns was the wife of Asahel Lamb, son of Peter ; Nancy married 
John Palmington ; Hollister died in 1862, in the army ; then there were 
Achsah, who married John Ballantine ; Polly, who became Mrs. Sylvester 
McDerby, and Roxy, who married Jerome Palmington. All of them, old 
and young, went west. John Burns was a good Baptist, and leader of the 
singing. It is proper to state that I find John Burns recoi'ded, in 1812, as 
the purchaser of lot 153, /. e., 108 acres, just opposite the old Dickinson 
farm. Sally, Joel B.'s third daughter, was the second wife of John Skid- 
more. His first wife was a sister of Davis Hand, by whom he had a son 
and a daughter, Sally. He was early on the Ellis Ellinwood place, whence 
he went to Ohio, and returning bought what is now the Collier place, 
south of the Valley, and later went to Michigan. His children by second 
marriage were Truman, Chauncey, George, Catherine, John, Mary Ann, 
Rachel and Marilla. Like nearly all the Bishops and their affiliated 
branches, he was a Baptist. Sally Bishop taught the first school in town, 
in a small log house a mile and a half north of the Valley. Chauncey 
Bishop has been named. Phcebe Bishop became the wife of Gardner 
Gillett, a brother of Harvey, and began housekeeping in a log house 
opposite George Catchpole's, possibly on the Weeks farm. In this town 
and in Lyons seven children were born to them. Those surviving infancy 
were Cyrus, who married a Jewell, of Sodus ; Harriet, John, Joel and 
Cordelia. All went to Illinois. Then came Rachel, the wife of Dr. Peter 
Valentine, of the Valley. The sixth girl was Roxy, who married David 
Gates, of Huron ; then Martha followed, the first wife of Lyman Fel- 
ton, of Red Creek. They went to Ohio. The eighth daughter, Lucinda, 
wedded Ansel Gardner, of Red Creek, who, a carpenter, lived in the 
town for a while. In his trade he built the Proseus house, in the 
North Rose district, and the Baptist Church in the Valley. Becom- 
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had eleven children. Last of all was Harriet, who followed her sister, 
Martha, as the second wife of Lyman Felton. There, that is a gal- 
axy to be proud of. Can a Eose family, during the last twenty-five years, 
show its equal! Before dismissing the Bishops, I may say that they had 
their share of frontier adventure. Among many others, Chauncey tells 
this incident : He and Asahel Gillett once shot a bear, but fearful that 
the shot was not effectual, they hesitated about approaching the fallen 
Bruin. They came nearer only to find that their caution had been wise, 
for his bearship proceeded to arise and to place himself at bay between 
two trees in a way that he could be attacked in front only. As their last 
ball had already been sent into the beast, they assailed with clubs, but the 
beast was smart enough to knock the weapons away in succession, until, 
finally, going at him simultaneously, they took his life. Bear meat was a 
luxury for a time. This' affair took place on the gravel knoll opposite the 
residence of Luther Wilson. 

Xext is found the place long known as the Bender farm, now owned by 
John York, Jr., of North Rose. As we have seen, Joel Bishop, 2d, was 
first here and located his log beginning. He sold to Henry Graham. Then 
came a man named Sweat, then James Weeks, next Mr. Gardener, then 
Loren Beals, who sold to John Ira Bender. He came to these parts from 
Manlius, Onondaga county. His wife, Caroline Osborn, was born in 
Woodbridge, Conn. They have four children— Emily, the wife of James 
easier of Manlius; Jacob, Charles E., and Bertha, who, having married 
Wright Mclntyre, lives south of the corners. With her Mrs. B. makes 
her home, Mr. B. having died two years ago. Since Mr. York's ownership 
a fine large barn has been constructed. Charles Moore, a native of the 
Isle of Man, has the next liabitation. An industrious citizen, he is rearing 
a family of six children, Anna, Maggie, John, William, Joseph and Frank, 
who command the respect of the community. The building was once a 
tenant house of Peter Shear. Mr. M. has five acres in his holding. 

Beyond the corners on the east side is a small house built by Mr. Shear 
for his son William, and here the latter with his wife, Elnora Monroe, 
resides. They have an interesting group of children growing up about 
them. Their names are Perry, Sarah, Harry and Mildred. (The house 
and farm now belong to the Welch Brothers.) 

The possessions of Eliphalet Crisler attract us next. Mr. C. is a son of 
Adam Crisler, a resident of the north part of Rose. Mr. C. has five acres 
of laud, and in the extreme northwest corner, just on the street, is a little 
house which was once the dwelling house of the former owners. It was 
moved here when the new house was erected. Just back of it are the 
remains of a stave cutting and cooper shop, for Mr. Crisler is a cooper by 
trade, though latterly he has done more at house-building. Eliphalet's 
wife was Luciua Lake of Huron, and they have one daughter, lua. Mr. 



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'Crisler bought of Francis Baker, who came here from Seneca Falls ; before 
that was from Webster, birt remotely was a Long Islander. His son 
Horatio married a daughter of Leland Johnson. Back of Baker is James 
I. Vanderburgh, who divided his ten acres, giving half to his daughter, 
Mrs. Weeks. N. B. Hand preceded, and he went into the army during 
the War. One Swett also held it for a time, and his predecessor was Elder 
Andrew Wilkins, one of the most successful of the ministers who have 
presided over the Baptist Church in Rose. His sons are Hervey, Hartwell, 
Frank and Fred. All of these young men have proved pronounced 
successes in life, despite the oft-repeated slander against ministers' sous. 
The good clergyman died in 1884, at the age of sixty-nine, and is buried 
with many of his former parishioners in the Rose cemetery. His widow, 
■who was Laurie Barnes, lives now in the Valley, preferring a home of her 
own to living with any one of her boys. Another minister preceded, Elder 
Amasa Curtis of the Baptist Church, whose younger two children were, I 
believe, born in Rose. In those days clergymen apparently found time to 
till a few acres as well as to attend to the spiritual wants of their flocks. 
Since the elder performed the marriage ceremony for my parents, his name 
has always had a 'special flavor for me. Before the preachers, came John 
Hyde, who had married the widow of Isaac Gillett, and thereby the mother 
of Almira Gillett, now of Wolcott. If any one of the feminine gender was 
ever better known in Rose than the before mentioned " Almi,"' I should 
like to know the name. As a peripatetic seamstress, she became the 
depository of nearly all the secrets in town. Her memory is a i)leasant 
one. 

One of the most noteworthy structures on the street, is that which 
we must cross the street to inspect. It is built of brick, one of the 
few farm houses in town thus constructed, and is the home of "Ham" 
Closs, the youngest son of John, the first comer. His wife is Lydia Ann 
Jones, a sister of the late Mi-s. David EUinwood. Their two sons, John 
and William, have already received mention in this volume. Every- 
thing about and within the premises indicates care and taste. Mr. Closs, 
in addition to his farm, has given much attention to speculation, and few 
men in Rose are better known. 

We come next to the home of Mrs. Catharine Weeks, widow of Rufus K. 
We met the name when near the Catchpole farm, and can now learn a little 
more about the family. She was herself a sister of the W. S. Vanderbui-gh 
who lived so long on the Waldruff farm. As Sarah K. Vanderburgh she 
was born in Greene county. Her maternal grandfather Steinhart was one 
of those hated Hessians who came to New York with Burgoyue's army. 
A native of Hesse-Cassel, he had been impressed into the service of his 
prince, and so came to America. Once here he did not care to return, and 
marrying on the Hudson passed the remainder of his life there. Her father 



122 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 

was James I. Vanderburgh, and her mother Hannah Steiuhart. Of a large 
family of boys and girls, we are interested chiefly in William S. ; Elizabeth, 
who married Matthew Mackie, the Clyde nurseryman; Abram D., who 
once lived east of John Lymans and who married Hannah Finch of Dis- 
trict No. 5. Her home she has somewhat improved since buying of Dudley 
Wade. This was only a small portion, which, joined to the five acres had 
from the father, makes about six acres. Before Wade, Hamel Closs had 
owned it. The Vanderburghs were Baptists, while Mr. Weeks had been 
reared a Quaker. 

Our southmost station is attained when we come to the home of George 
Seager, who, formerly from Huron, having married Jeannette Howland, 
daughter of George, purchased the property from the Talton heirs. There 
is a new house here supplanting the old one, which some years since was 
burned. These people have three children— Claude, Clara and Floy. 
Mr. Seager's predecessor, John T. Talton, was also known as Williams, 
there being some mystery about his name, but his tombstone in the ceme- 
tery, beside giving his name as Talton, tells us that he was a soldier 
during the War. It was during his holding that the house was burned. 
After this the family lived for a time in the barn opposite, and here, in 
1882, at the age of fifty-four years, Mr. Talton died. His widow, having 
married Mr. Walmsley, resides in the Valley. Mr. T. left three sons. 
There are some more than fifty acres in the farm, and here, years since, 
Joel N. Lee reared his family. As we have stated elsewhere, he and his 
family were Vermouters, and no better people ever made their home in this 
town. Exemplary members of the Methodist Church, they lived and 
exemplified Christianity. One of their daughters is well known as Mrs. 
Charles S. Wright, of the Valley, and Loviua we have repeatedly met as 
Mrs. C. C. Collins, now living in Wolcott ; Theresa married Charles 
Kingsley, son of Harris R., a former Methodist minister in Rose. On his 
death she returned to the village of Rose, and with her, until their deaths, 
the aged parents made their home, having given up their farm. Mrs. K. 
now lives in Batavia. The only son, Addis C, became a soldier during 
the War. Mr. Joel Lee finished his earthly pilgrimage in 1880, a little 
more than eighty-three years old. His wife died in 1876 at the age of 
seventy- five. Mr. Lee sold his farm to his son-in-law, Charles S. Wright, 
who rented it to different people, among others to Sidney J. Hopping, now 
living on the Dudley Wade farm, in the confines of Butler. The farm has 
had many mutations. Taken up by Stephen Brooks, there were at first 115 
acres, all but 15 being on the east side of the road. Brooks sold 46 acres 
from the north side of his farm to Zenas Fairbanks. The remainder was 
sold to Joel N. Lee in 1826. In 1827 Mr. Z. F. sold ten acres on the road 
to his cousin, C. W. Fairbanks, and going down to the east end of the lot 
went into extensive mercantile business, shoe making, lime burning, etc. 






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Later the Fairbankses changed places, and afterward Zenas sold to John 
Hyde and went to the Covell district. In 1836 C. W. Fairbanks sold to 
Royal Turner, who also bought out Hyde. Mr. Turner was noted for his 
law suit tendencies. Both he and his wife lived to be more than 90 years 
old. Through many changes, the place passed to John B. Lyman and to 
Crisler and to Mrs. Weeks. (Mr. F. H. Closs now owns the Joel Lee 
part. ) 

As the next step will take us to the Valley district, we shall delay that 
move until we have visited- the northern portions of the town, preferring 
to work from the circumference inward rather than from the heart outward. 
So then, just under the shadow of the hill, at whose base the Miricks 
located, we must leave District No. 3. 



DISTRICT No. 2.— North Rose. 

April 11— June 27, 1889. 

The appellation North Rose is a comparatively new one. To the old 
inhabitants it was Lamb's corners, and the emigrant who left his native 
heath in the long ago would gaze in wonderment at our heading, mentally 
exclaiming : " What terra incof/iuta have we here ? " This hamlet of ours 
is fifteen years old, dating from the opening of the then Lake Shore R. R., 
now the R. W. & O. R. R.; up to the seventies, where now are houses, 
gardens, stores and shops, the Aldriches and Briggses raised crops, for 
the village lies exclusively on land that was once theirs. The railroad 
went a long distance out of its course to reach as far south as it does, 
running on one side of a rather short ellipse, almost a circle, but even then, 
it could not get nearer the Valley than two miles and a half. Locating a 
station here, known on the time card as Rose, the village is a consequence. 
As this is the only railroad passing through the town, it will not be amiss 
to follow its course from entering to leaving. Having nipped off a corner 
of Huron, it comes into Rose on P. T. Lewis' land, thence, extending 
southeast, it crosses the Huron road just north of Richard Garratt's ; still 
continuing thus, it runs diagonally over the next east and west road a few 
rods west of William H. Cole's. Coming through a deep cut, trains some- 
times pick up cattle here. On one of my walks I came along just after a 
fine cow belonging to Isaac Cole had been thus cut in pieces. (In 1893, 
Charles Harper lost two.) Crossing Cole's farm and the next north and 
south road, just south of Carrier's corners, it passes through Avery H. 
Gillett's possessions and those of Nelson R. Graham. On the latter's farm 
the grading covered up a fine spring, and on this account the elder 
Graham, Henry, claimed extra damages, but the company demurred and 



124 KOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 

left the matter out to arbitration. The award was considerably in excess 
of the amount demanded by Mr. G., thus justifying his claim. Its extreme 
southern range is reached when it crosses the Sodus road at North Eose, 
whence it tends northward, with just one variation west of Glenmark, and 
that a slight one, till a few rods south of the Huron line it runs into Sodus. 
What might have been is naturally suggested. I understand that neither 
Eose nor Huron would bond itself to help the enterprise. Had Huron 
done so and Eose had continued obdurate, naturally the road would have 
made its Huron station at Port Glasgow, and that place must have regained 
some of its prosperity destroyed by the building of the Erie canal. Lake 
navigation and railroad transportation would have made her a no mean 
rival of Clyde and Lyons, and leaving Wolcott quite in the lurch. Again, 
had Eose bonded and Huron not, the station could easily have been located 
as near the Valley as the end of the old Sherman or Merrick Hill, i. e., the 
present residence of Mr. Isaac Campbell. The Valley would have had the 
business since located in IN'orth Eose and the latter village would not exist. 
However, our village is a reality, but it is entirely too recent and new to 
be interesting. Were it placed on a western prairie it would be content 
with no such modest name as it now bears, but it had long since been 
Aldrich or Briggs City, or Maltopolis, or some equally sonorous word. 
Long ago it would have had a race course, half a dozen hotels, so called, 
a biiiss band and a national bank. As it is, the neighboring Valley 
becomes somewhat suppressing, and, perhaps, retards its otherwise more 
vigorous boom. There is little of the antique in a place only fifteen years 
old. Theie are no old houses, no traditions, even the shade trees look 
new, quite too new for history. We shall find no material here for another 
Miss Mitford's "Our Village," while the railroad and the immense malt- 
house quite as effectually prevent a reproduction of George MacDonald's 
" Annals of a Quiet Xeighborhood. The name is a happy one, locating as 
it does the place. Besides, there was already another Lamb's corners in 
the state, in Albany county. 

Now, then, we will suppose that we have journeyed north from the 
Valley, have passed through the Lyman district, and leaving the same at 
the interesting old house of Mrs. Charity Stearns, ii'ee Bishop, we shall find 
our first stopping place, singularly enough, to be the cemetery. 

More fortunate than some, we are still able to leave the cemetery, and 
we halt under a dense cluster of locusts, and find at our right the home of 
the late Jonathan Biiggs, while opposite are the barns in which he stored 
the products of his fertile acres. We now find as occupants the widow, 
her daughter, Mrs. Post, and her children. Mr. Briggs was born in Ehode 
Island, but when only three years old his parents moved to Cincinnatus, 
this state. His father was John Briggs, who married Margaret Jones, 
also a Ehode Islander, and sister of Pardon Jones, so well known in Eose. 



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Mr. Brings himself early found a veritable helpmeet in Emeline Baker, a 
sister of Julius, of this same North Eose district, her native place being 
Watertown, Conn. It was in March, 1844, that Jonathan Briggs moved 
from Seneca county to this farm. Before the railroad got into it, it num- 
bered, with the accessions that he had made, 213 acres. He was bounded 
on the south by Bishop and Bender, and on the north byAldrich. Mindful 
of the Scriptural injunction to increase and multiply, these good people 
added to the world's numbers six sons and two daughters. Of these, the 
oldest, John, married Sarah Jane Otto, and lives, as has been seen, on the 
old Otto farm just over the Huron line ; the nest son, George, was 
drowned some years ago, at the age of twenty five years ; Birney, a 
carpenter by trade, lives in the adjacent village, and his wife was Anna 
Terry, of Clyde ; Luman and Lyman are twins, and they married twin 
sisters, Ellen and Helen Doremus, whose father also now dwells in the 
village, while Lnman's home is the Valley, and Lyman lives in Huron ; 
Elbert, having married Nancy Ewing, of Alton, abides in North Eose; 
Caroline is the wife of William Niles of the Valley, while the youngest 
child, Sophia, married George H. Post, from Waverly, Tioga county. She 
has three children — Nellie M., who recently married Julian S. Cross from 
Broome county ; Minnie E. and Alice E. In the same j'ard with the 
Briggs homestead is a large house constructed some years ago by Mr. B. 
for his youngest daughter and her family, but recently she has dwelt with 
her mother. Mr. Briggs was one of the solid men of the town, not con- 
spicuous in politics, but a man of superior judgment and ability. He was 
a good representative of the state that gave to the world Tristam Burgess 
and Nathaniel Greene. Earnest and honest, faithful, liberal and devoted, 
he was and is sadly missed from his town and church, he having been for 
many years prominent in the Eose Baptist organization, dying in ISSl. 
He was in his sixty-ninth year. (Mrs. Briggs died August 1, 1891.) 
Before Mr. Briggs, no one was long identified with the place. He bought 
of William H. King, of Seneca Falls, who by trade had obtained it. Mr. 
King never lived here. The last one occupying before Mr. B. was Henry 
Graham, who here, I believe, made his first essay at farming. One Smith 
also held, and before him John Brant. First of all was James Leland, who 
sold and removed to Ohio. Leland had three sons — Lewis, Gale and Isaac. 
The latter, returning to his old home on a visit, went bathing one day in 
the Lamb mill pond, and diving, struck his head against something. The 
injury received resulted in illness, from which he died in about three weeks. 
(Mr. John Briggs will soon occupy the old homestead.) The next house 
is that of William Smart. He passed his boyhood in No. 7. His wife is 
Nellie Perkins, once living in District No. 3. They have one child, Nellie. 
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126 EOSE NEIGHRORHOOD SKETCHES. 

Further along is the abode of Edward Burrell, a native of Galen, who 
came from that town to Rose, and, on the once well tilled acres of Briggs, 
has planted his vine and fig tree. His home is a pleasant one. His first 
wife was Charlotte M. Odell, a native of Tyre, N. Y. Their children are 
E. O., who married Cornelia Hart of Huron, and lives in North Rose; 
Dorothea, died in infancy, and Cuthbert, who lives in Woodland, Cal. 
Mrs. B. dying in 1870, Mr. B. married, second, Jane A.. (Clark) Mains, in 

1872. She died in 1887. Nearly opposite, Mr. William Hill erected in 
1889 a very fine residence, and occupies it. He is a house painter and 
paper hanger by occupation. He came to Rose from Huron, being a native 
of that town. His wife is Alida, a daughter of Abram Doremus. Eugene 
Brewster is just finishing a house, next, which in no way suffers by com- 
parison with others in the village. He comes from west of the Valley and 
finds employment in the lumber yard. (Now the home of Ira Burt, late of 
Galen, who has left his farm in the care of his two sons, and with his wife 
has come to this village to reside. They have also two daughters married. 
Across the street a Mr. Taylor of South Butler is erecting a basket factory 
[Aug., 1893] and further east is the extensive evaporator of Hill & Quereau, 
lately sold to Mr. George Catchpole of the Valley.) 

This brings us to the railroad, and just over the same, at our left, we 
must see the immense malt house of John York, Jr. In fact it was visible 
some time ago, rising much more conspicuously than the single church 
which the hamlet possesses. To those who can find pleasure in such a 
presence, this building must be a source of no little pride. As for myself, 
I allude to it simply as a very striking edifice and illustrative of business 
enterprise. My birth, rearing and profession, however, lead me to look 
upon malt houses, brewers and saloons as not indicative of a community's 
true prosperity. Mr. York is from Huron, a member of the family that 
has given its name to a i)ortion of the southwest part of the town. His 
wife is Martha Weeks, a daughter of Caleb, and his home is at the right, 
the first house on the east corner, north of the railroad. In this part of 
the town, probably, Mr. York exercises a wider influence politically than 
any other one individual. The beginning of this structure was made in 

1873, and it was simply a grain and fruit storehouse, being enlarged from 
time to time until, in 1882, it became a malt and storehouse, and assumed 
its present mammoth proportions. The builders at first were Mr. York 
and Robert A. Catchpole, of Huron. (The whole structure was totally 
consumed by fire, Thursday, May 11, 1891.) 

Had we glanced to the right, in crossing, we would have met the 
prosperous lumber yard of Charles Oaks. How desirable that there should 
be agreement in name and business. Mr. Wise ought to be a school 
master, certainly Mr. Good would befit the pulpit, and that Mr. Oaks 
should sell lumber, goes far to preserve the unities so desirable in nature 



ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 127 

and art. The business was started in 1S71 by Straight & Mnnn. Three 
years since Mr. Oaks liought out Mr. Straight, who went to Wolcott, and 
is in the same business there. After one year's continuance with Mr. 
Munn, the hxtter sold out entirely to Mr. Oaks and went to Iowa. Since 
then Mr. O. has run the plant alone. (The oftiee of Mr. John Hill stands 
nearest the railroad, on the west side of the street. Mr. Hill deals 
extensively in fruit and agricultural implements.) 

The large hardware store of the Welch Bros, is on the west side of the 
road and north of the way leading to the malt house. Thomas Welch is 
also ijostmaster (though he has recently resigned). The building was 
erected by Lyman Briggs, nearly opposite and on railroad land, and was 
then moved to its pre.'-ent location. In their line of woik the Welch Bros, 
have no rivals in the town. Early and late tliej' aie devoted to their voca- 
tion. Naturally, they have been very successful. Back of the stores, 
facing the most of the nmlt house, are two dwellings, the first, Harriet 
Garlick's, the second, Frank Drury's. Lest we should engender confusion 
we will keep on this side of the street until we get to the Proseus corner. 

An Irishman was once sent to count a litter of pigs. He discharged 
his duty to the best of his ability, though he declared that one little 
rascal wasn't still long enough to be counted. Since preparing the 
following article, I have seen 'in the correspondence of papers, printed 
in Eose and vicinity, so many statements of movings, that, like a kaleido 
scope, the village must have been turned and the harmonies must be 
entirely different from those seen in August last. I describe the streets as 
I saw them then. 

So then, the next place is the store of Henry Garlick, under the manage- 
ment of his son, Charles. Eight here we may as well introduce a little 
Garlic into our composition, premising that the most anti-Spanish reader 
will not find the flavor divsagreeable. Captain Samuel Garlick, whose body 
lies in the Eose cemetery, was a soldier in Eevolutiouary days, having 
served eighteen months in the patriot army, though very young. He was 
a uative of Huntington, Conn., and when, one Sunday, the good pastor of 
the church, Dr. Ely, was preaching his usual discourse, there came a 
swiftly riding herald, who passed in a note to the preacher. Its purport 
was that the British were devastating the Sound coast. There was no delay 
for further service. The same God that enjoined prayer, counseled also 
watching, and fighting, too, if necessary. So pastor and people went into 
the fray. Young Garlick went with the rest, and thus made a record of 
which his descendants are justly proud. He was twice married — first, to 
Sally Lewis and second to Huldah Gilbert. By each of these wives he 
was the father of four sons and three daughters. The first family embraced 
Samuel, Eliphalet. Ezekiel. Eli, Sally, Eliza and Abbie. Of these, Eli 
married Margaret, a sister of Abner Wood, and daughter of that widow 



128 EOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 

Margaret Wood who became the wife of Paine Phillips. His family was 
numerous, consisting of Abner, Sidney, who married a Messenger ; Samuel, 
who married a Weeks ; Sally, the wife of Henry Garlick, and Barbara. Eli, 
an aged man, lives now in a small house just back of the Welch Bros, 
store. He has been an industrious blacksmith all his long life. (Died in> 
January, 1892.) The second group of Capt. Samuel's children was com- 
posed of William, David, Henry, Judson, Mary, Maria and Lucy. David 
married Tabatha Angle, of Eose, while Henry, in whom we are chiefly 
interested now, took for his first wife Sally, the daughter of his half- 
brother, Eli. When Captain G. came to these parts, it was to make his 
home, in 1810, in Galen, on or near the Ketchum place, east of Clyde. He 
built the old Waldruff house. His father, a very aged man, accompanied 
him, and lived, I am told, to be one hundred and ten years old. His grave 
may be found near the old home, east of the village of Clyde. At the time 
of coming the country was a wilderness, and Henry Garlick says that his 
mother has ridden her horse by blazed trees from Galen to the old Mudge 
store in Wolcott, to do a little trading. On the morning after William 
Garlick's marriage, three inches of snow lay on the bed covering, so many 
and wide were the crevices in the roof. From Galen the family came to 
Eose, settling on the Messenger farm, in the western part of the town, 
buying of one Bacon. Full of years, Capt. Garlick passed away April 28, 
1843, in the eightieth year of his age. His son, Samuel, lies by his side. 
To his father on the farm Henry succeeded, but much of his life has been 
passed in a gristmill and in a blacksmith shop. For a long time he ran 
the mill in Glenmark, and later the blacksmith shop in North Eose. His 
children are Charles, already mentioned; Frank, a farmer in Huron (now 
in Coxell's district), whose wife is Clara Terbush ; Emmaette, deceased, 
the wife of Eugene Elwood, and Edith, who is Mrs. Frank Eiggs. Eomaine 
Cole built the house in which the Garlic store is kept, just after the rail- 
road was opened, and ran a store for two years. Afterward Irwin Seelye 
and Lyman Briggs were in partnership here for two years longer, then 
Seelye had it alone till the Garlicks took it. (Charles Garlick was postmas- 
ter during Harrison's administration.) 

' Somewhat back from the street is a small house, in which lives Frank 
Davis, a stone mason, who came here from Huron. He is the father of 
Ellery Davis, of the Town district. The building is noteworthy from the 
fact that in it was kept the first store in the place. Built by William 
Dickinson, it originally stood just east of the old school-house, on the site 
of Eobert Andrews' old shoe shop. Here the first place of trade was 
opened and maintained, till the house itself was moved to its present loca- 
tion, and pretentious structures put it in the shade. 

Again we find a store, managed by C. C. Shaw, from Sodus. The house 
was built by Irwin Seelye, but is now owned and occupied by Nancy Briggs. 
(In the lower story Jay E. Dickinson now keeps a store.) 



ROSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 129 

John T. Hill lives next. He came here from Huron and is interested in 
the York storehouse. To him is due the credit of starting the village. His 
wife is Elizabeth Seager, and his children are Frank and Roy. 

Next we find the house of Alexander Skut, but of him and his more anon. 
'(Now the home of his widow and family.) 

Then comes the home to which Samuel Gardner came when he left his 
Huron farm. Mr. G. was a native of Rensselaer county, and his first wife 
was Hannah Brewster, of Lausingburg, and their only son we shall meet 
as we journey northward. For his second wife he married Happilona 
Chatterson, daughter of John P., whose home was in the Covell district, 
and thereby granddaughter of Betts, whom we saw in the Seelye neighbor- 
hood. (Her only daughter is Mrs. S. H. Lyman, and the latter has 
a son and daughter.) 

Murray Becker, a recent comer from Red Creek, resides in the next 
house, and, for a livelihood, carries the mail to Huron. (In 1893 the home 
of Mrs. Alfred Graham and mother.) His neighbor on the north, John 
Lamb, we shall learn more about when we get to the old homestead. 
Myron Huffman, a brother-in-law, lives with him. 

All Rose people have long known the next place as the old Aldrich farm ; 
but its history goes back many years before these people came hither. It 
is lot 151 in the old numbering, and hither, in 1813, came Isaac Gillett. 
He came from Hubbardton, Vt., where he had married Sally Sellick, who 
was a niece, through her mother, of Isaac Hickok. Though they hailed 
•directly from the Green Mountains, they were originally from Connecticut. 
Isaac's father, John, came also, and died in Huron in 1819. One of the 
Gilletts married Rhoda Avery, a sister of Joel Bishop's wife. Perhaps it 
is as well to trace Isaac Gillett further. To begin with, he was a cousin of 
Asahel and Harvey. From Rose he went to Huron, and at his death, in 
1829, at the early age of forty-five, he was the proprietor of the hotel at 
Bay Bridge or Port Glasgow. His widow rented this for a time to Henry 
Graham, well known in Rose. After a while she married John Hyde, a 
* brother of the famous Zenas Hyde, and whom, as a shoemaker, we have 
seen in District No. 3 as one of the many dwellers in the old house on the 
present Crisler place. Making a visit to his old home in Massachusetts, 
he died and was buried there thirty years ago. To Isaac Gillett were born 
several children, as Isaac Newton and ChaunceyH., both born in Vermont 
and both went to Junius to live ; Prosper, in Missouri ; Moses, in Roch- 
ester ; Almira, born on the Aldrich place ; Rhoda, who married E. J. 
Jackway, an uncle of Avery Gillett' s wife, and went to Benton Harbor, 
Mich.; Sally, who married Charles Kelsey, of Galen, and died in July, 
1888. Of these children, Almira and Rhoda were best known in this town. 
They long lived together in the Valley and took care of their mother, who 
finally died in Throopsville, in 1862. After the marriage of Rhoda, Almira 
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passed many years in this and adjoining towns as a nurse and seamstress,- 
her services always in request and her presence always enjoyed. If, from 
the misty past, she could call up all the gossip she has heard, what a reci- 
tal it would be for the readers and hearers ! Failing health now keeps her 
pretty closely at her Wolcott home. To Gillett succeeded Peter Lamb, a 
member of the family, whose name has been so long connected with this 
section. They were from Schoharie county, of good Dutch stock. The wife 
was Sally — , and the children were : Asahel, who married Jane Burns, Joel 
Bishop's granddaughter; David, who was an odd mortal; Hiram found 
his wife west of the Valley, in Diana Cooley, and lived once on the Catch- 
pole farm ; Perry ; Ira, who took Perliette Lovejoy for his companion ; 
Lorenzo, Louisa and Laretta. All went to Michigan, and all are dead. 
Simeon Mott was the next, but how long he remained I can not tell. He 
had a son, Chauncey, and a daughter, Jerusha, who became Mrs. John 
Ellsworth ; but it was a sad day for the latter when she took his name. 
She was a terrible shrew. Says John Lamb : "I was working with Ells- 
worth in the woods one day when Eusha came along. Her man was 
stooping down at work, partly under the sleigh. She took up a big knot ' 
and was about to hit him on the back. I told her if she did I'd hit her. 
By this time Ellsworth was out, and, taking the ox gad, he went for her. 
It was not much of a place for sympathy on either side." In 1833 
Amos Aldrich came to this place, succeeding Mott. The house that he 
found is now George Aldrich's pig pen. He built anew, and with sundry 
repairs the place is as he made it. His wife was Sally Luce, and they 
came here from the town of Arcadia, though Mr. A. was born in Ehode 
Island, where at present one of the U. S. senators bears the honored name 
of Aldrich. Both husband and wife, after long and respected lives, sleep 
in the North Rose burial ground. Atone time they were members of the 
Eose Methodist Episcopal Church. Of their children : Joseph lived once 
west of the corners and then went to Ohio (died in April, ^1889); James 
Benjamin we shall meet east of the corners, while George, who married 
Ella J. Carrier, retains the old homestead. As they have a son, John C, 
we may hope that the place will continue in Aldrich hands for another fifty 
years. The row of houses that we have passed has taken the street front 
from the farm, but there are still fertile acres remaining. The family has 
found many queer water-worn rocks on the premises and Indian arrow 
heails, indicating the early presence of the aborigines. Mrs. A. has also 
a very fine Indian gouge, found on the farm, and. so far as I know, the 
only one ever found in the town. 

We are now at the corners, the site of the village that was to be, the 
place near which were the school-house, blacksmith and shoe shops, and 
several dwelling houses, but the incoming railroad changed it all. The 
southeast corner was reserved twenty-one years by Fellows & McNab, to 



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be given as a site for a church, but the church didn't materialize, though I 
understand that Henry Graham and others had spells of trying to raise 
money to construct it. So, after a while, the inevitable log house came 
and was occupied by many families, among whom were William Green and 
John Waterhouse. After a time, Cornelius Van Buren bought and built 
the house now standing. He was from Dutchess county, and for many 
years worked at blacksmithing, east of his home and then nearly opposite. 
He disposed of his lot, and for a while owned the Eldred place. As he 
and his good wife had no children in these parts, they passed all their 
possessions over to Henry Garlic for a home to the end of life, and with 
the Garlics they lived till they passed over the river. Myron Lamb, a son 
of John, followed. His wife was Anna Weeks, of eastern birth, a sister of 
]\Irs. John Lovejoy of Glenmark. Mr. Lamb is a carpenter by trade, find- 
ing here, with wife and daughter, Minnie, a happy home. (The latter is 
now Mrs. Albert Dagle of Rose.) 

Carpenter Birney Briggs, a son of Jonathan, dwells next toward the 
south, for we will now run down the east side of the street. (In 1893 the 
home of George H. Ball, born in Cayuga county, who married Sarah, 
daughter of John Seager of Huron. They have one child. Myrtle. Mr. 
Ball is interested in raising raspberries, and is about building in District 
No. 3, near the old Oaks place. Mr. Briggs is in Rochester.) 

Martin Sours, a lecent comer, lives in the following place, once the home 
of Burton Partridge. 

Then comes another carpenter, Frank Proseus, a son of Mrs. P., on the 
corner. Certainly, with so many of this profession in the vicinity, there 
should be no lack of building forces. Judging from his own house, Frank 
must be a good workman. 

Still another carpenter, Warren Morey, follows in "Abe" Doremus' 
hou.se, and this brings us to Caroline street. (Mr. Dillon, a shoemaker, 
lived in the Doremus house in 1893.) 

Then we find the pleasant home of Henry Garlic, followed by a building 
in which Myron Lamb and Albert Dagle conduct a meat market (1893). 
John Weeks owns the building and lives in the upper rooms. In order 
follow the homes of Fred Grant, Thomas Welch and William C. Rose. In 
the first of the two houses belonging to Mrs. John York, dwells Mr. C. 
Halliday, who married Celinda Patterson, of the Lake district. Mrs. York 
resides on the corner. On Railroad street is the home of Nelson Parslow, 
who is the father-in-law of Edgar Dean, living on Gray street. 

The next sti-eet. Gray, runs parallel with the main road ; but I can't 
help thinking that the village had been prettier had it ranged itself around 
the four corners, thereby escaping the melancholy view of so many rears 
of houses and their accompaniments. In this respect, the mile-long, 
single-streeted New England village was far in advance of the more 



132 ROSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 

ambitious towns of recent and sudden growth. But moralizing will not 
take us along the street, which, whether we like it or not, is a verity. On 
the west side we shall find Samuel Mclntyre, a gardener. (Mr. Edgar 
Dean has built and now occupies a fine house on this site.) Then Mr. 
Dagle. (Now occupied by Mr. Charles Bowman.) Mr. Charles Dagle, 
who, in 1893, lives in Huron, is a native of Kingston, Canada ; his wife, 
Adelia Kirwin, was born in Ireland. Their children are Louvinda, the 
wife of George E. Miller; Ida, who is Mrs. Valentine of Marengo ; Charles, 
died in infancy; Frank, died June 24, 1883, aged 32 years; Addison; 
Albert ; Wallace, died July 14, 1S91, aged 22 years ; Harvey and Auuabelle, 
at home. Next is Jay Dickinson, whose old home we shall flud in our 
eastward journey ; he is a carpenter by trade, and saw service during 
the Eebellion ; his wife was Elizabeth Bovee, and she has borne him a 
numerous progeny, consisting of William, Eobert D., Charles A., Stephen, 
George, John and Minnie, who is Mrs. Van Sicklen. Mr. Dickinson is a 
son of the late William Dickinson, and a carpenter by trade. Mrs. Frank 
Skut, with her daughter May, resides next. (Mrs. Skut is now Mrs. A. H. 
Mudge of Cortland.) Then John Morey, a carpenter. (Now inEochester, 
and the house is occupied by Manly Wright, the Eose station agent.) 
And next, William Green. 

Now we are at Caroline street, and on the coraer stands a very pretty 
edifice, the result of the generosity of the surrounding inhabitants. Where 
all were generous, it would seem almost invidious to mention names, but 
it may not be amiss to state that it stands on what was Aldrich land, that 
it cost $2,000, and that John York, Jr., Nelson Graham, Orriu Skut and 
others were liberal givers toward this very laudable object. 

On Caroline street itself stands the blacksmith shop of G. W. Stansell. 
The building, an old one, once stood quite near the corners by the school- 
house, having been moved to that point by Cornelius VanBuren. He, too, 
bad moved it from very near the point where the railroad crosses the main 
road, it having been the home of one Hudson. Across the way is the 
unoccupied Good Templar hall, erected in 1889. Eeturning to Gray street 
and continuing north, we pass the homes of George W. Stansell, whose 
house is a new one, John Bounds, Henry Courtermarch (occupied by J. 
M. Wolf), and Barnard Mitchell. 

Coming back on the east side we are attracted by the pleasant home of 
Everett Slaght. He married Harriet E., daughter of James B. Aldrich. 
He makes quite a business of berries, raising and dealing in them. (Mr. 
Slaght's present residence is Eochester, he being employed on the Western 
New York & Pennsylvania E. E. To him has succeeded Mr. David West- 
cott, who, a glass-blower by trade, has lived in Clyde and the west. His 
second wife is Sarah Ann, widow of Christopher Dickinson of Clyde, and 
oldest daughter of the late William Dickin-son, of Eose.) 



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Southward we find the homes of Wallace W. Winchell, C. M. Shaveiv 
who married the widow of John Hewson, and a house belonging to Samuel 
Warne ; Calvin E. Winchell, who dwells next, is a member of the family 
met in District Xo. 10. His son, Wallace W., married Mattie, daughter 
of Elmer Partridge, of Huron; Fi'ank L. Winchell married Louise A. 
Cole, and lives in Eochester. Ella Winchell is Mrs. Charles W. Oaks. 
Marcus Baker owns next, and Elmer Winchell occupies. Dr. T. D. Tibbetts, 
who keeps a drug store and grocery, follows. He came from Williamson, 
and married Josephine Derby. They have one child, Ross D. Dr. T. 
built his own edifices, and also the house of Mr. Henry Garlick. He carries 
the mail to Lummisville in Huron. Then follow William Eogers, George 
Seager and Lewis Sours, the house and blacksmith shop owned by George 
Miller and the abode of Abram Doremus, whose twin daughters married 
Jonathan Briggs' twin sons. Until he moved here he was a farmer in the 
western part of the town. (Xow the home of Charles H. Garlick, who 
married Mary E. Travers of Tyre.) 

Still further east, there will be eventually another street, and, already 
on hand awaiting the street, are the homes of Jerome Davenport, David 
Hill (not the governor), Peter Salter and George Parslow. Beyond these 
even is the abode of widow Hannah Quackenbush, in a house built by 
William Dickinson. We must not slight the very necessary hotel, which 
dates from railroad times, and which was constructed by Thomas Parks, 
butis now the property of William Eoe of Wolcott. It has had numerous 
landlords, of whom we might name John Decker, who died here, and the 
present Myron Brant, a son of that John Brant who years ago lived on the 
Briggs farm. (In 1S93 Miss Ara A. Barnum owns the hotel, which is 
kept by Mr. Guy Beadle. The street to the eastward has been built and 
changes have been made as indicated in the village plan.) 

North Eose as a post office dates from war times. In 1861 "Ben" 
Aldrich opened the office, and kept it where Mr. Thompson now lives, 
north of the old school-house. Then David Lyman had it in the little red 
house, nearly opposite the school-house. Morton Tripp followed in the 
Eldred house. Jonathan Briggs then had the honor for a while, having the 
office in the railroad station. Eomaine Cole was next, followed by Lyman 
Briggs, in 1877, who in turn passed the privilege of the place to Irwin 
Seelye, in 1882. He was postmaster till Grover Cleveland made Nelson 
Graham postmaster, in 1885. Irwin, however, continued as deputy until 
recently, when the country was made thoroughly safe by passing the office 
from an old soldier to Thomas B. Welch, who maintained the same in his 
hardware store. [Since writing the foregoing, Mr. Welch has resigned.] 

The house on the northwest corner of the cross roads is much changed 
from its former appearance. It was away back in the twenties that Gilbert 
Miner, a seafaring man, and a bachelor brother of Prentice Miner, already 



134 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 

on the ground, was persuaded to erect on this conspicuous corner a tavern. 
Ansel Gardner was the builder, but before the work of rum selling (in 
those days the chief business of hotel keeping) could begin, a great 
temperance wave swept over the country, meetings being held in churches 
and school-houses, and Othello's occupation was gone. Prentice Miner 
lived here some years, till, selling out, he went to Michigan. He had three 
children. I have heard him described as a short man, duck-legged, a sailor 
in early life, but could out- jump anybody in the neighborhood. The place 
was owned for a time by a Mr. Simmons, then by a Mr. Young of Geneva. 
Jonathan Briggs possessed it also, and from him, I believe, it passed to 
Franklin M. Proseus, who, a native of Dutchess county, came to Rose from 
Sodus. He enlisted in Company G, Ninth New York Heavy Artillery, 
and died in 1862, leaving a widow and two children. Mrs. P. was born in 
Sodus — her maideu name was Anna M. Lake — though the family was of 
Connecticut extraction. Her maternal grandfather, Horace Terry, died 
from wounds received at Sodus Point, in the War of 1812. Her son, Allen, 
married Sophia Andrews, and resides in Huron, while Frank, who married 
Nellie Tryon, lives in the village. His two children are Frank and Fern. 
On the east side of the road, a few rods to the north, two apple trees 
standing in the field are near the site of the McWharf home, mentioned in 
the Lake district series. A spring of clear cold water and a consequent 
stream were doubtless the motives for locating his home thus. He had 
fifteen acres conveniently near the home of Jonathan Skut, his brother-in- 
law. The latter's home was over the way and still a trifle to the north of 
the site of the present house of Orrin Skut. The family was immediately 
from Onondaga county, but the name is uncommonly suggestive of the 
Hudson river region, and of those sturdy Dutch burghers, whose stalwart 
proportions the members of the family still i)0ssess. However, the first 
Mrs. S. was Hannah Rowe, and she was the mother of a large number of 
children, as follows : Orrin, Charles, David, Andrew, Horace, Mahala, 
Caroline and Esther. With the marriages of these people we are interested 
only in that of Charles, who took for his wife an adopted daughter of Eli 
Andrus, and Orrin's. All the family went to Michigan, but Orrin tired of 
the country and came back. He says now that he is sorry that he returned. 
He had learned the cooper's trade, and in the newer regions of the west 
there was little demand for what he had to give. The elder Skuts, after 
living for a time on Crusoe Island, in Savannah, went to Michigan and 
there died many years since. The wood colored house, long prominent 
here, was built by Jonathan Skut and still remains, though repaired and 
painted. Here Orrin Skut lived for many years, tilling his forty-eight acres 
and pursuing his trade. He now lives in the village near. He did not 
follow his father immediately as owner, having managed it seven years as 
superintendent for a Mr. Angus, to whom Jonathan had sold. His wife 



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■was Almira Lamb, a daughter of Isaac, one of the pioneers. Their children 
■were : Alexander, who, though owning a farm in Huron, has his home in 
North Eose, and with him his father lives. His wife is Melinda Jones, of 
Huron, and they have three children — Cora, Annette and Orrin ; the second 
son, Ira, married Helen Creque of Wolcott, and died in 1881 ; he was a 
soldier during the War ; Jerome died in 1862 ; Jasper married Frank Park 
of Wolcott, and went west some years ago. The only daughter, Annette, is 
the wife of Alexander Ellinwood, of Clinton, Oneida county. Mrs. Orrin 
Skut died in January, 1886. With both Alexander and Jerome I was well 
acquainted, having been a fellow pupil with them in Fulton, and know 
personally of their sterling worth. Jerome was only twenty-two years old 
at his death. Orrin Skut has been, in one way or another, a town officer 
for eighteen years, the most of the time a commissioner of highways. 
(Orrin Skut died May 6, 1892, and June 12, 1892, Alexander died. The 
place is now occupied by William Dickinson, who married Irene, daughter 
of Frank Davis, and has children, Forrest, and a baby girl.) 

We are pretty near the confines of the town when we reach the next 
farm, that of Charles G. Oaks, a son of that Charles G. Oaks who lived 
and died in the Lyman distiict. He was a soldier during the War, and his 
wife was Huldah Wilson, a daughter of Robert Wilson, whose home this 
was for many a year. 

One more remove and we reach Daniel Skut, a brother of Jonathan. He, 
too, had a large family, which also emigrated to Michigan. His children 
were Robert, Apollos, Daniel, Abram, Truman, Betsey and Hannah, who 
became the wife of one Sumner, whose father was an early dweller on the 
Cephas Bishop farm. When the Skuts left, there were only fourteen acres 
cleared. In the farm, however, there were one hundred acres. The house, 
as usual, was built of logs, and water was brought from a spring. To this 
place came, in 1835, Robert Wilson, a native of Romulus, but moving from 
Dundee, Yates county. His wife was Catharine Raplee, changed, undoubt- 
edly, from tiie Hudson river name Ra^jalye. She was born in Dundee. 
Here these good Ba^Jtist people lived and reared their children, building 
finally the pleasant house now the home of the Oakses. The oldest son, 
Luther, married Cynthia Boynton, and lives on the next road east, hold- 
ing a farm formerly a part of the paternal acreage. Mary N. Wilson 
married Gilbert A. Chapin, and resides now in Denison, Texas. Huldah, 
the wife of Charles G. Oaks, died in January, 1887, leaving four children, 
of whom Katie is the wife of James Thomas, of Huron, while Charles W., 
Marilla and Robert L. are at home. Robert Wilson died in 1868, in his 
sixty-third year. His widow, quite infirm on account of a fall, makes her 
home on the old farm with the family of her daughter, Huldah. (C. W. 
Oaks married Ella L. Winchell, and they have a son, Seth Carroll ; Marilla 
Oaks is :Mrs. Edgar C. Davis, of Central Falls, R. I.) 



136 E,OSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 

Our last house faces a road which was once a public way extending down 
to the Glenmark road, but which terminates now at the home of Ogden 
Van Sicklen. As laid out many years ago, it led to the property of Isaac 
Lamb, the first settler here. He was a stirring, enterprising man, and, in 
1823, built a saw-mill west of his house, obtaining power by damming the 
stream which ran through the gully. This mill was in operation more than 
sixty years, and it fell into decay only when the need of it ceased. It 
doubtless is responsible for the denudation of the surrounding country, 
and through said destruction, the stream has dried up so that water power 
would be quite out of the question. Further up the glen, many years 
since, the same Ansel Gardner, before referred to, built a mill for carding 
wool, but it was never utilized. It was just back of Orrin Skut's home. 
Fifteen years after the construction of the saw-mill, Mr. Lamb built a grist- 
mill a half mile down the stream, and the road was correspondingly 
extended, having, up to this time, terminated at the sawmill. This must 
have been a very rough, winding, hilly way, and after the mill went down, 
I don't wonder that the road was taken up. As we approach from the 
east, we should have seen, first, the miller's house, in which lived many 
families, and at one time the Huffmans, with whom the Lambs married. 
Not a trace of it is now standing. Down under a steep bank, nestled the 
mill years ago, and many a bushel of wheat was turned into material for 
the staff of life by the water that long since ran by. It is easy to trace the 
old dam, and, with some difficulty, I can find indications of the race way, 
which bore the motive power to the mill, and as the fifty years roll away, 
in fancy I see the boys of then (the grand-sires of to-day), just as boys 
will ever do, leaving their clothes on the bank, while they seek happiness 
in the cooling waters ; or^ earlier in the season, trying to secure nibbles 
from passing minnows by the temptations of a wriggling worm. Perhaps, 
in winter, our boys of "ye olden time" have bumped their heads in essay- 
ing the pleasures of skating. All these fancies float before me on a 
burning hot day in August, and I, too, sigh for the consolation of the bath 
or the shade of the glen beneath. Imagination must be drawn upon to call 
back the old mill, of which there is not a rack left behind. One of the old 
stones serves Myron Lamb, at the corners in ^N'orth Rose, for a horse 
block, and the other is lost to sight and search in the morass near which the 
building was located. So much for these buildings of old ; now let us 
return to the abodes of men, and pause where Ogden Van Sicklen has his 
home. 

It was many years ago that Isaac Lamb broke into this primeval wilder 
ness and began his living. His cabin and his surroundings were like 
those of his neighbors. He came directly from Cayuga county in 1820. 
His wife was Sally Stanley, and they were both Methodists. After many 
years here, they yielded to their son, John, and, buying ten acres west of 



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Aldrich's, built a house and dwelt for a time. Mrs. L. died in 1846, aged 
sixty-nine. After her death the husband went to Lyons, where he died in 
1862, at the home of Ira Mirick, his son-in-law, at the age of eighty-six. 
No trace of his home on the Glenniark road now exists. Both of these 
good people now sleep in the North Rose burial ground. Their oldest son, 
Isaac, Jr., married Emeline Hickok, a daughter of Moses, and we shall 
soon see him again. William married a Mc Wharf, as already noted, and 
died in Huron. John we shall presently meet; Martha, as the wife of Ira 
Mirick, must wait till we get to the Valley district ; Polly married John 
Baker, and, after living in Rose, went to Michigan ; Almira we have met 
as Orrin Skut's wife ; Jane never married, and died in Lyons some years 
ago. Somewhat peculiar in manner and speech, she is said to have 
resjionded to a query as to why she didn't accept a certain offer of heart 
and hand : " Do you supi^ose that I am going to take up with every old 
jackass that comes along?" Sally Ann became the wife of William 
Blighton, in Galen, and apropos to this same is suggested a couplet that 
irreverent youths sometimes sang in "ye good old days :" 

" So glad I come, old Daddy Lamb, 
Oh, won't you give me Sally Ann?" 

Isaac Lamb, Jr., and wife succeeded his father. They lived here several 
years, and had born to them a family, consisting of Munson, named for a 
brother of Mrs. L. ; Munroe, Betsey, Caroline and Almanda. Like scoies 
of others in this town, they took up the westward march and settled in 
Michigan, where doubtless these Lambs have increased to quite a flock. 
Lamb sold to Peter Shear, and he to William Hallenbeck, whose name we 
first encoitntered on the Halsey M. Smith place, in the Lovejoy district. 
He was from Coxsackie, Greene Co., and his wife was Rachel Ten Eyck, 
from the same town — ^both names betraying unquestionable Dutch origin. 
It was thirty- six years ago that Mr. H. came to this farm, and here he died 
in March, 1883, at the age of seventy-one, his widow surviving him a little 
more than one year, dying in October, 1884, at the age of seventy-three. 
Their children were not numerous, consisting of MartinF., who died in the 
army during the War, and Louise, who is the wife of Mr. Van Sicklen. 
The latter was born in one of the western states, and his father dying when 
Ogden was very small, his mother, who was a daughter of Elkanah Smith, 
returned to this town, and here he was reared. They have children, 
William F., who married Minnie, daughter of Jay Dickinson, of North 
Rose, and lives at home, and two girls. Belle and Rose. The framed house 
was built by Isaac Lamb, Jr., and the fine barn by Mr. Hallenbeck. (Wm. 
F. Van Sicklen and wife have a child, Mildred A.) 

On the south side of the road is the estate of John Lamb. The house 
was constructed in part by Wm. Hickok, who afterward dwelt south of the 



138 KOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 

Valley, and was completed by John Lamb. John's wife is Jane E. Huff- 
man, a member of the family that once lived a little farther west, near the 
■old grist-mill. Like many others, these good people went to Michigan, 
where they dwelt six years, but came back to this old pasturage, because, 
Mrs. L. says, "John was homesick." They reared a sizable family here 
and then went to North Rose to dwell, where "John " may work or not, 
as he likes. He knows where the biggest blackberries grow. Their chil- 
dren are Myron, Addison, and Mary Annette, whom, as Mrs. John Hetta, 
we shall meet in the Glenmark district. The place continues to suggest 
innocence, for Addison Lamb dwells here. His wife is Eliza J. McQueen, 
from Savannah ; but as people of that name formerly lived in the neigh- 
borhood, it is possible that her folks were once Eose inhabitants. They 
have one child, Cora I. (Now Mrs. Addison Dagle, of Huron. ) 

Continuing our route across the town line, having returned to the main 
road, we shall find, first, the valuable farm of Ishmael Gardner. His wife 
was Sarah Slaght, of Wolcott, and they have two boys to patronize the 
Nortli Rose school. No one must think that, on account of his name, 
Ishmael's hand is against every one, for no better nor more highly 
respected farmer lives on the street. He is an Ishmaelite in name only. 
Samuel Gardner, who lived here so long, was widely and favorably known. 
After working his farm up to a commendable condition, he moved down 
to the village, and there died, the supervisor of Eose, in 188.5. Ishmael is 
the sou by his first wife, while Ella, his only daughter, is the child of 
Happilona Chatterson, his second wife, who now survives him, living in 
Eose. Joseph Preston was the first settler on this farm. In the local 
annals, there is also a Hovey Preston, possibly a relative. 

Near the corner, on the left, as we continue north, we may see the place 
where James Catchpole wrought out his fertile and beautiful farm. Robert 
and James Catchpole came to Huron from Geneva more than forty years 
ago. They were from Norfolkshire, England, and another brother, George, 
became a wealthy resident of Geneva. It is quite unnecessary to state that 
the careful habits of these good people would have made them well-to do, 
wherever they were. They were not grinding, grasping folks, but good 
judgment, backed up by good health, industry and integrity, has given 
them enviable positions in this lake bordering town. The sequel has war- 
ranted us in the thought that their name was from the beginning suggestive, 
but that wealth, honor and repute might as well have ended it as the com- 
monplace " pole." James, the older, married a widow, Susan Knight, 
and their children are James, who retains the parent place, and with his 
maiden sisters, Mary Ann and Matilda, exemplifies how pleasant a thing 
it is for brethren to dwell together in unity, individually as well as col- 
lectively. The next son, Benjamin, married Susan Comstock, of Huron, 
and has his home a little north of this district ; Robert married Lavina 



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Tindall ; Susan became the wife of Thomas Smith, of Geneva ; Ann became 
Mrs. Edward Thomas, late of Geneva : while Jemima, who married John 
Smith, we may meet if we go a few i-ods to the east and follow a private 
road till we find her pleasant home. Of her children, William, with a 
wife (who was a Post, from Butler) and two boys, lives at home, as also 
does James ; Nora married Fred Kelsey. and lives in Galen ; Maggie, a 
beautiful girl, died some years ago. The first James Catchpole and his 
wife are dead. Earlier than the Catchpoles, the names of Hiram Lamb and 
John Baker may be found connected with this farm. 

Across the road from the James Catchpole place, we find Dwight Flint 
and his wife, who was Mary, daughter of Robert Catchpole, 1st. The 
trade with her brother, George, has already been described. They have 
but one child, Augusta, who is the wife of Frank G. Gaylord, of Sodus. 
The barns ou this place were burned some time since, and have been 
replaced with most commodious structures. William Lamb once lived 
here, as did also Mr. Parley Lyon. 

Our limit in this direction is reached when we come to the home of 
Harvey D. Barnes. This place Robert Catchpole bought, away back in 
the forties, of Hiram Woodruff, and here he reared his children and devel- 
oped his farm, and here, too, he remained till advancing age prompted 
him to seek a home at the Valley. This was probably twenty years since. 
Mr. C. has been dead for several years, but his widow, in remarkalile 
health and strength, makes her home at the old place. (Died in 1890.) 
The family that was reared here consisted of Robert, who lives near Sodus 
Bay, in Huron; George, the present supervisor of Rose; Ellen, who mar- 
ried Garhardus Watson, of Galen; Mary A., the wife of Dwight Flint; 
Elizabeth, who is the wife of H. D. Barnes ; and Anna M., who is the wife 
of Joel Thorn, of Galen. This is the last farm in the district in this direc- 
tion, and the last one before making the plunge into the gorge through 
which we must pass in going hence to Glenmark ; but the place is a very 
superior one, and, as at present conducted, yields admirable returns for 
the labor expended. " Harve," as his friends call Mr. Barnes, is an old 
friend. We saw him first in District No. 7, the "boy" who lived with 
Joseph Seelye ; that outrageous youngster who sorely tried the patience of 
the old laily and drew many a satisfactory "ha! ha!" from the old gentleman. 
Had we time and place, a book could be filled in detailing the pranks of 
this man, who, as a boy, had all the mischief of the neighborhood laid at 
his door. But he lived through boyhood, served his country for three 
J ears in the Forty-fouith New York Volunteers, and coming home was 
fortunate euougli to marry his excellent wife. An admirable pair ; we have 
but one regret as we consider their surroundings, and that is, that while 
the farm is well tilled and stocked, it has no little Barnes. "Harve" is 
■the son of Edward Barnes, who had married Hannah Tindall, a sister of 



140 EOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 

blacksmith " Parm," of the Yalley, and also of the late Mrs. Daniel Alex- 
ander. Mr. B., senior, lived in several places in this town and in Galen, 
in which town " Harve " was born. At one time he lived on the Dr. 
Dickson farm, i. e., the one now occupied by Harlan Wilson, west of the 
Linns Osgood place. He finally died in Michigan, his wife in the Valley. 
They had several children, among whom were Harvey ; Horatio, who- 
served during the War in the regular army and died afterward at Fort 
Plain ; and Mary, who died at her Uncle Brown's, in Glenmark. In part- 
ing with our old friend and his pleasant wife, I must extend sincere con- 
gratulations on the evident prosperity of both, and to the Eobert Catch- 
pole family for following Scriptural injunctions literally, in that the estate 
has been gathered into Barnes. 

Coming back to the North Rose corners, we are ready for a journey east- 
ward. Mrs. Proseus owns on the north side, and, as yet, her farm has 
not been cut up into house lots. Very near the angle once stood a black- 
smith shop, since moved down into the village and stands on Caroline 
street. 

The school-house is by far the most important building in the vicinity, 
and now that a new one is so constantly mooted, it will be in place to quote 
from the early records that have been preserved from 1821. Before the 
erection of this district, children went to the house down under the hill, 
west of Peter Shear's. One of the choicest reflections that one has in look- 
ing back to the beginning of our town is, that our fathers were so anxious 
to give to their children educational advantages. These may have been 
meagre ; undoubtedly they were limited enough, but they sufficed to give 
the young folks a start in life. To me the following extracts seem specially 
valuable: June 5th, 1820, Joseph Fellows and Andrew McNab leased six 
rods square of land in the southeast corner of lot 130 in Brother's allot- 
ment, for the sum of one dollar and for the term of ten years, to Joel 
Mudge, Moses Hickok and James Leland, trustees of District Xo. 14, and 
to their successors, for the purpose of furnishing a site for a school-house, 
the lease to be void if the school should not be maintained. October 21st, 
1826, Gilbert Miner permanently leased the same site, only a little circum- 
scribed, i. e., it extended five rods back from the middle of the highway, 
and four rods east and west, but still in the same corner. This was done 
for the consideration of two dollars and fifty cents. At the rate of holding 
land then, the price paid was large for a deed in fee instead of a lease sim- 
ply. This was made to Asahel Gillett, Stephen Benedict and Gale 
Leland, trustees, and was given shortly after the erection of the town : 

" School Destrict No. 14. Beginning at the northeast corner of Nicholas' 
Four Thousand Tract. Thence west on the north line of said tract three 
miles and a half, thence north one mile and a half, thence due east until it 
strikes the west line of Destrict No. two, thence southerly on west line of 



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Destrict No. two and six to the place of beginning the above. Described 
Destrict being a part of Destrict number five and three. The above 
Described Destrict is erected into separate Destrict, and the Clerk of the 
Town is hereby ordered to Eecord the same.'' 

Martin Carterigat, \ Comnassioners of 
Eeastus Fuller, J Common Schools. 

WoLCOTT, June the 27th, 1821. 

On the 6th of October, 182(5, it was voted to build a new school-house : 
to begin preparations in the winter; to have it ready in the ensuing June; 
that it should be 18x26. (This was not completed till 1S28.) November 
1st, 1845, preliminary steps were taken toward building another new 
school-house. At the adjourned meeting, November 7th, it was voted to 
build on the old site ; to have Henry Graham, Asahel Gillett and Hovey 
Preston co-operate with the trustees ; to build of wood with studs and 
braces and to paint on the outside ; to build 28 x 24, after a model pre- 
sented by Henry Graham ; to sell the old building and stove to the highest 
bidder ; to levy a tax of $300 to build with ; and to have the edifice 
completed the first of September next. 

Back of the old school-house is a small house in which lives William 
Thompson, whose business is that of a peddler. Here, before him, dwelt 
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Smith, father of E. G. Smith, whom we saw in the 
Lake district. Before them was Robert Andrews, that merry shoemaker 
who located first in the Valley, but afterward came here and built a little 
shop southeast from the school-house, which was long a congregating 
place for all the male gossips of the vicinity. A Protestant Methodist, he 
could pray long and loud ; could tell a good story, an.d was not without 
interest in a horse trade. Of his children, Kellogg, called "Cal," became 
a Protestant Methodist minister ; Mrs. Colcord lives in North Huron ; 
Mrs. Phoebe Sherman in Michigan ; Mrs. Dora Thomas and Mrs. Peter 
Paine are also in the west. From Rose, Andrews went to Huron. 

It is possible that Andrews built the red house opposite, or at any rate 
added to that little school-house that (IS x26) was the pride of the early 
settlers, for this was moved oft, and, I understand, made a part of this 
structure. I believe John Lamb owns it now. It was for a time the home 
of Jay Seelye, and here Michael Priudle, preacher, blacksmith and horse 
jockey, dwelt. His peculiarities still excite remark among the denizens of 
the place. I believe that Henry Garlic was here also, and that Elkanah 
Smith, often met in wanderings hereabouts, dwelt here once. The black- 
smith shop, where work was done, and where the small boy languished 
with switch in hand, was near the shoe shop, and finally melted away. 
(On the south side also is the second old school-house. ) 



142 BOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 

J. B. Aldrich has opened a new street, or rather has continued Gray 
street across the road into his orchard, and here, on the east side, Albion 
M. Gray is building a very fine bouse. (Mr. Gray was born in Mt. 
Vernon, Me., reared in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, and learned 
his carpenter trade in New Jersey. He married Sarah A. Smalley, a 
relative of Abram Dorenius, in New Jersey. Their children are Charles 
A., John M., Elizabeth L., Otis A. and Alvin M. So far as I know he is 
the only resident ever given by the Pine Tree State to the town.) Further 
in the orchard, right among the trees, Irwin R. Seelye has planted his 
beautiful house. Irwin married Sarah Williams, of Marion, and has one 
child, Nettie. May they find much pleasure in their home among the 
apple trees, where annually they must be surrounded by those prettiest of 
flowers, i. e., apple blossoms. Across from Seelye's is a house owned 
by Wing Langley. (Robert Dickinson married Emeline, daughter of 
Birney Briggs, and built, recently, a very pretty home east of Mr. Gray's, 
and just beyond him. To them in Aug., 1893, a daughter was born. 
Allen Proseus, having already put up an excellent barn, is erecting an 
elegant residence. His wife is Libbie, daughter of Joseph Andrews, and 
their children are Harry I. and Isabelle.) 

Here the road leads up to the Huron part of the district, but whose only 
Rose dweller is Luther Wilson. A visit to him reveals one of the most 
pleasant homes in Rose. His only child, a daughter, died some years ago. 
Beyond him, in Huron, we should find Jefferson Chaddock and several 
others whose alBliations are with Rose. 

On the south side of the main road is a red building which years ago 
Morton F. Trippe bought of the Langleys, it having stood near the ceme- 
tery, and having been a tenant house for them, and moved to this site. 
Here he located his parents. Morton was a soldier during the War, and^ 
it is presumed, filially applied some of his earnings and bounty in this 
praiseworthy manner. He was graduated at Hamilton College, and became 
a Presbyterian minister, and is now serving his God in that capacity on an 
Indian reservation in the western part of the state. The post office was 
here for a time. Then came Cornelius Van Buren, who deeded the prop, 
erty to Henry Garlic, and he traded it with Katie Graham for the little 
farm over near P. T. Lewis', in the Lovejoy neighborhood. Here now 
dwell Katie, the widow of Alfred Graham, and her parents, the Eldreds. 
Clark Eldred was born in Deerfield, Oneida county, and married, first, 
Harriet Blanchard of Cato. His second wife was Mary Chaddock, a 
daughter of that William the first whom we met in the Lake district. His 
life has been passed i)rincipally in Huron and Rose. Now an invalid, he 
keeps close to his home. Mrs. E. is a good soul, who likes to meet her 
friends and pass a social hour. They have but two children, Katie and 
Lydia, who, as the widow Sobers, married Henry Garlic. (Mr. Eldred died 
August IS, 1889, aged 84 years.) 



ROSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 143' 

Tbe home of James B. Aldrich now attracts ns, aud entering, we shall 
find not only the head of the family, known among his friends as ''Ben," 
bnt also bis wife, Calista, her mother, Mrs. Jnlia Dickinson, and an invalid 
aunt of ^Ir. A. The home is home- like — and what more in way of praise 
conld be said ? Thirty acres of Mr. Aldrich's farm were bought of Darwin 
Dickinson ; the remaining seventy were a part of the old Amos Aldrich 
estate. As we have seen, Mr. A. has opened a street into his domain, 
anil already houses are going up thereon. The house was built by Emory 
Eoberts thirty-five years ago. Roberts, with his father, John, went to 
Michigan. They sold to -'Dar" Dickinson. They had bought of Henry 
Graham, and had lived here probably ten or twelve years. The Aldriches 
have only one child, Harriet E.. who married Everett SI aght of the village,, 
though he was formerly from Wolcott. 

Crossing to the south side we shall find the house of Morgan Lewis 
Smith. The politics of Smith's father, Elkanah, and the time of his biith, 
may be surmised by his Christian name. Mr. S.'s holding is a small one, 
consisting of thirteen and one-half acres only, and he bought of Jay 
Dickinson. The latter built tbe bouse. Mr. Smith's wife was, as a girl,^ 
Florence Jane Commett, from Newark. They have no children. Tbe 
Smiths came from Delaware county, and the elder Mrs. Smith lies in the 
Rose burial ground. Elkanah went to Michigan. 

James Brisbin has a small holding on tbe north side of the road, a part 
of the William Dickinson place. Mr. B. came from Pultneyville, and his 
wife is Lizzie, a daughter of Mr. Dickinson. Their only son, George, is at 
home. (Now in Clyde.) Maggie, a daughter of Mr. B. by his first wife, 
Elizabeth Malcom, is tbe wife of Wing Langley. Another daughter is 
Lillian E. Mrs. B. and George are members of the Rose Free Methodist 
Church. 

As we advance eastward we must notice deep excavations on both sides 
of the road. Hence have been taken many cords of lime stone for building 
purposes. I should conclude from casual observation that tbe rock is 
better adapted to making walls in bulk than to holding them together 
in the shape of lime. I think no successful effort has been made to burn 
this stone. Early in the century tbe quarry was worked by Prentice 
Miner, but whether he opened it or not deponent doth not aver. From 
this source material was obtained for the Erie canal locks near Clyde in 
1823, and again for the same purpose at the time of the enlargement. Door 
steps and corner-stones innumerable have been taken thence for use in this 
and neighboring towns. If Miner (what an appropriate name) possessed 
any rights in the quarry, they passed to Dickinson, who took articles from 
the land office. The latter was born near Lake George in 1801 (December 
19tb), and married first Cbailotte Vaughn, by whom he bad two children — 
Sarah Ann, who married her cousin, Christopher Dickinson, a printer, 



144 ROSE NEIGHBOKHOOD SKETCHES. 

who lived in Albany and later in Clyde. She now lives in this town as 
Mis. David Wescott. The son, Robert Darwin, was well known in Rose, 
where he lived for many years, though he died in New York a commission 
merchant. His wife, Harriet Ferris, was a daughter of Deacon Ferris of 
Butler. He left four children— Harvey D., who, having married Clara 
Colvin, lives now in Idaho ; Clarence, since deceased ; Merville, in Idaho 
with Harvey, and Caroline. William Dickinson's second marriage was 
to Julia Emily Seelye, daughter of Benjamin, and their children were 
Charlotte L., who married, first, John Partridge, and second, Joseph 
Boynton. They moved to Napoleon, Michigan, where she died, leaving a 
son, Merville. Calista Dickinson we have seen as the wife of James B. 
Aldrich ; Eliza is Mrs. James Brisbin ; while Isadore Amelia married 
Philo B. Boynton. They live at Joel Lee's in District No. 6, and have 
three children— Emily, Joseph and Florence. In the second family of 
Mr. Dickinson there were only two sons — Judson and Jay R. The latter 
married Elizabeth Bovee of Rose, and lives in the village, following the 
trade of -a house carpenter. The former, through mental infirmities, was 
well known in the town, especially in the decade from 1860 to 1870. He 
died in 1882, and we cannot help wondering what he might have been 
if nature to him had ne'er been unkind. William Dickinson was always 
connected more or less with a mill', and in this place erected a structure for 
fashioning and smoothing stones, but it was not, I think, successful. The 
pond which supplied his power was immediately at our left as we crossed 
the bridge going east. Mr. D. was a man of great decision and determina- 
tion, and it means no disparagement when we state that he was familiarly 
known in town as " Bill Dick." He was a life-long Baptist, and I would 
give a great deal if I could settle one question as authoritatively as he, 
William Chaddock, Jonathan Briggs, Artemas Osgood and other contem- 
poraries used to rule on all matters of state and religion. The lyceum 
convened immediately after morning services and the place was at the 
entrance to the church, and here they served up whole chunks of solid 
wisdom. The world, I fear, will never know just how much it has lost. 
When Mr. Dickinson raised that oracular finger and emphasized his 
dictum with "I tell you " so and so^ and with a look that Lord Chancellor 
Thurlow might have envied, there was no gainsaying him. However much 
one might object to some of his opinions, he was uniformly respected. He 
died in December, 1879. and is buried in Clyde. His widow was born 
October 23d, 1799, in Kingsbury, Washington county. In her old age she 
finds a pleasant home with Mrs. Aldrich. (Died September 3, 1889, in 
her 90th year.) After Mr. D.'s death, the place passed to James Brisbin 
for a time, when he sold to Jonathan Briggs, who in time sold to Charles 
Barrick, and he has lived here for the last seven years. Mr. B. is from 
Lyons, of a Maryland family long settled there ; his wife is Emily Otto, a 



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daughter of Samuel Otto of Huron, but a resident of Eose when he lost his 
life in 1870. They have two children — Ralph L., who married Sarah Hall 
of Galen, and is now in Emporia, Kansas ; the daughter, Hattie E., is at 
home. A small house across the road belongs to the estate. It is surrounded 
by land belonging to the Briggs property. (Mr. Briggs has recently erected 
a steam saw- mill south of the road.) 

Proceeding eastward we must notice the elegant barn which Mr. John 
York has erected recently on the old Benjamin Seelye place. Like many 
farms in this vicinity, this has passed into the hands of the ISTorth Rose 
maltster, and plenty of money is rapidly effecting very noteworthy 
changes. I do not believe I could enumerate all the people who have lived 
here as tenants and owners, but going back to John Burns I can give the 
most of them. In Osgood Church's book of sales, this lot, 132, is assigned 
to Noadiah Gillett. Of this party, I have thus far obtained no clue what- 
ever. He may have been related to the other members of the Gillett 
family ; but if so, the survivors do not know it. John Burns certainly 
lived here and reared his large family. Possibly Henry Graham owned it 
for a brief time. The period of uncertainty, however, ends when, about 
1840, Benjamin Seelye and family came from Washington county and 
located here. He was an elder brother of Joseph, who, from 1815, had 
lived in District No. 7. Mr. Seelye had had the care of his aged mother, 
and after her death he forsook the hills of his native town and came hither. 
His wife was Eunice Barnum, a native of Shaftsbury, Vermont. She had 
several brothers in Rose and Butler, as Roger, whom we have seen near 
Stewart's corners ; Bateman, who married a Richardson, in Butler, and 
Smith, who married a Mason, in the same town. A daughter of Smith B. 
married a Leonard, at Spencer's corners. All of " Uncle Ben's " children 
were born in Washington county, and the oldest we have already met as 
Mrs. William Dickinson ; Electa married, first, Garrett Clark, whose son, 
Byron, lives in Savannah ; her second husband was Oliver Millard, and 
with him she lived for many years in Lockport, finally dying there ; Polly 
was Mrs. William Farr, of Fort Ann, Washington county, till both went 
west, to Iowa. Emma was the wife of Jared Young, of Fort Ann, and the 
mother of Bell and Electa Young, who used to live with the Seelyes, of 
Eose, Bell married Melvin Gillett ; the youngest child, Caroline, became 
the wife of David Stanley, who, a miller, for a long time ran the grist-mill 
in North Huron. She died long since, leaving children, Plumie, who mar- 
ried a Clark, of Waterloo ; Alice, who became Mrs. Michael Vandercook, 
of Rose ; Elmer and Ellen. Benjamin had two sons, John Jay and 
Nehemiah. The latter we met two or three times in other districts in 
Rose. Jay married Minerva Boynton, of Huron, and for many years lived 
on the old place. Afterward he was in Huron and North Eose, and finally 
died in Waterloo, in 1887. His burial place is Huron. His children were 
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146 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 

Irwin, Fred and Burt. Fred married Lottie Sours, of Huron, and died in 
Wolcott, leaving a son, Gray P. (Mrs. Seelye married in January, 1890, 
Mr. G. F. Smith, of Horton, Kansas.) Burt is a successful teacher in 
"Waterloo. (Now in Brooklyn.) These Seelyes, Benjamin and Jay, were 
entitled to the respect and consideration of all who knew them. Praise- 
worthy citizens, they lived beloved and died regretted. As occupants 
or owners after this family, we can find the names of Elkanah Smith, 
Robert Jeffers, Wing Langley, and finally John York. 

Nearly opposite is a dwelling which Henry Graham put up for his 
daughter, who married Isaac Maybe. On the north side is a small bouse 
belonging to the Grahams, which was once on the Baker place, the build- 
ing that William Chaddock found there when he bought. It was sold to 
George Smith with one-half acre of land. It now belongs, as stated, to 
the Graham estate. 

The Graham farm follows, the place where Henry Graham accumulated 
his wealth, and where now his youngest son, Nelson, lives. The 
latter' s wife is Susan Genung, of Rose. The farm was first occupied by 
Moses Hickok, grandfather of Felton and Eugene. He probably lived here 
several years and reared his family. William, a son, used to tell about 
encountering a deer when visiting the spring down by the present site of 
the railroad. In this case the boy rather than the animal was hunted. 
From relationship, I fancy that the Hickoks were from Connecticut. 
Moses' wife was Zervia Felton, by whom he had William, Joseph Mun- 
son, Caroline, Emeline, Fanny and Luna M. Fanny, Caroline and Joseph 
died young. Luna married John R. Hudson and went to Michigan. 

Henry Graham was one of the most noteworthy figures in the history of 
the town. He was born in Ulster county, January 19, 1802, and died in 
Clyde, October 17, 1878, and was buried there. It is remarkable that at 
the time of his death his mother was living with a daughter in Port 
Byron, at the wonderful age of 102 years. She lived to be 106. Her name 
was Lydia, and with her husband, Henry, moved to Cayuga when our 
Henry was only ten years old. He saw the usual round of privation and 
adventure. He learned the carpenter's trade, tended lock on the Erie 
canal, and was a blacksmith in Canandaigua. His first wife was Roxana 
Demure, who died in 1811, in her forty-first year, and was buried in the 
North Rose burial ground. In 1831 he moved to Port Glasgow and leased 
and kept the hotel owned by Isaac Gillett. Later he came to Rose, to the 
Jonathan Briggs farm, and thence came to this, his long-time home. To 
begin with, he had 160 acres, but this amount varied from time to time. 
His second wife was Eliza Ross, of Auburn, and she survives him, living 
in Clyde. (Died July 23, 1892, in her 78th year.) By his first wife Mr. 
G. was the father of Henry, who for many years kept the Graham House 
in Lyons, whose wife was Jane Lambkin, of Port Byron ; he has been dead 




OLD RESIDENTS. 

Elizuk Flint. Amo;> Alukkii. \\M. Dii, kin;>(>n. 

Samuel T-vman. Henkv Gkaham. 

Stephen Collins. Franklin Finch. Addisun Weeks 



ChALNCEV IllsllDl', 
luNATllAN Rul'lGb. 

Benjamin Seel\ l. 



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several years ; Albert came next, and he married Eliza Smith, as we have 
seen ; Adaline married Welcome Freeman and went to Ohio, and Eliza- 
beth became the wife of Isaac Maybe, of Butler. The present Mrs. Graham 
is the mother of Nelson ; Elmore P., who, having married Nettie Beach, of 
Seneca Falls, keeps up the old Purdy farm in Butler in fine style ; and 
Archibald, the youngest, married Rose E. Case, of Clyde, he has one 
child, Louise II. He maintains a large business in running a grist-mill 
and drug store. Henry Graham was a man calculated to arouse attention 
anywhere. His business talents were of the highest character, and at his 
death be was probably the wealthiest man in the town. He was quick and 
certain in his conclusions and rarely was in error. In personal appearance 
he was noteworthy, weighing generally about 250 xjounds. In stature erect 
and in motion courtly, he had much of what is styled old time gentility. 
Though never conspicuous in politics, he had talents fitting him for any 
position. He built the framed house so long prominent on the farm, but 
this has been moved to the village. Its predecessor, which Graham found 
there, is now a barn on the premises. The present well appointed house 
was built in 1886, and it seems a pity that no youthful Grahams are grow- 
ing up to utilize so much comfort and elegance. (Mrs. Nelson Graham 
died April 26, 1892. Mr. G. has since married Miss Florence Lovejoy, of 
District No. 9. In Sept., '93, was born to them a daughter, Susie E.) 

Julius Baker lives on the next place east, and it is a pleasure to talk with 
so well preserved and active a man, whose years are reaching toward the 
eighties. Born in 1810, I found him on a hot August day of 1888 using a 
cradle in an oat field, and full of jovial remark. He says that Dudley 
Wade used to court a red-headed girl named Goodsell, in Clinton, Oneida 
county, and that years afterward, when Baker was sawiug wood for Mr. 
Wade, he asked him, as they were sitting down to the table, if he remem- 
bered anything about her. " Don't you say a word about that red-haired 
girl before my wife," says Uncle " Dud," and, says Baker, " I didn't." 
''Why, Wade hitched up the first horse that I drove when I went court- 
ing," continued Mr. Baker. He was born in Watertown, Conn. He was 
for many years a wagonmaker, and lived in various places, coming to Rose 
directly from Cayuga county. His wife was Eliza Leonard, who was born 
in 1811, in Westmoreland, Oneida county. For the last twenty-four years 
he has lived here. His son, George, lives near Wolcott, and Jerome in 
Auburn. Nelson is on the farm with his father. Jane uuirried Ambrose 
Copeman, from Aurelius, who died on the Collins place, east. Nelson's 
wife is Helen Barrett, a native of Ossian, Allegany county. Their children 
are Clara and George. Mr. Baker bought of William Chaddock, who built 
the house, and he followed Hiram Dunn. Unfortunately, I am obliged to 
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148 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 

For a long time I had supposed that the log house on " Sam " Osbom's 
place, built by his father, was the only one in this part of the town, but I 
am in error, for going down the hill beyond Mr. Baker's, and just before I 
begin the ascent of the next one, at my left, I find a log structure slowly 
settling down and returning to primitive dust. It was built more than 
forty years ago by "Jim" Phillips, whom we met in the Lake district, but 
for the most part its history is identified with that of the Feecks, who lived 
here several years. Nicholas, the father, came here from Aurelius, 
Cayuga county, and his wife, a Brown, was related to the wife of the first 
William Chaddock. They had six sons, of whom four went into the Union 
army, as did Nicholas himself. Alonzo was in Company H of the Ninth 
Artillery, and was taken prisoner with me at Monocacy. If he ever had 
any energy he lost it all on his capture, for after entering Danville prison 
he hardly lifted a hand to help himself. I have seen him lying on the 
ground and fairly covered with flies. They swarmed over his body and 
were even on his face and hands. " Feeck, in heaven's name, why don't 
you brush those flies off," I said to him one day as I passed. " Oh, what's 
the use ! They'll come again," was the languid response. Such an utter 
lack of grit could have only one result. He died before the first fall of 
snow upon our prison pen. William J. Feeck, who was in the 111th N. Y., 
lives now in Huron. Zadoc Taylor took the place, a small one, after 
Feeck, and it continues in his family. 

Our eastern course is run when we come to the home of Charles Harper, 
on the south side of the road, but to get at prime facts, let us go back to 
1813, where in the books of Osgood Church we may find the following 
entry : Dr. Asahel Gillett, Cont. No. 102, March 10, lot No. 155, 50 acres, 
price per acre $4.25. This of course takes us to the land office, and back 
of Gillett must have been the bears and Indians. This settler was from 
Connecticut and was one of several Gilletts who have been found in the 
town. He was a cousin of Harvey of the Lyman district, and likewise of 

Hosea and Isaac, already seen in this district. His wife was Euth , 

but unfortunately they were childless. Honest and industrious, they paid 
for their farm and had money beside. They invited John, a son of Asahel' s 
brother Avery, to come and live with them as heir expectant, but incom- 
patibility of tempers spoiled the plan, and, as we have seen, John set up 
for himself. Then Alphonso, son of another brother, came to take John's 
place, but this scheme worked no better than the first one. The old people 
became suspicious, and they had always been exacting. One misfortune 
after another followed, till all the savings of many years were squandered, 
and Asahel finally died in the house of Avery Gillett, son of John, during 
the War, otherwise he must have been thrown upon the town. After 
Gillett came Albert G. Graham, Henry's son, and he was followed by the 
LaRock brothers, Charles and Joseph. Charles married a Hart and Joseph 



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a Seager. At present the former lives near Wayne Centre. Charles 
Harper came next, and he still holds the property. He is Galen born, 
being one of a family wherein seven members averaged 214 ponnds each in 
weight. His wife is Clarissa Winchell, born in Eose, and they have two 
children, David and Minerva. The house remains, without, much as it was 
in Gillett's day, but the interior arrangements have been altered somewhat. 
The Harpers are Methodists. (David has recently wed Anna Lovejoy.) 

We have now reached the eastern limit, and to get to the other part we 
must stand again on the corner by Mrs. Proseus'. We shall pass at our " 
right a fruit dryer on the Proseus place, and must then go over a deep 
glen, along which, years ago, were the saw and grist-mills of Isaac Lamb. 
Somewhere along here on the south side was the home of Isaac Lamb after 
leaving the old farm. The first house to be encountered is that owned by 
Cephas B. Bishop. The latter is a son of Chauncey, so long prominent in 
the annals of the town, and he married a daughter of the second William 
Chaddock. I am very sorry that I cannot tell more about Almon 
Howard, who was one of the first if not the very first resident here. He 
was prominent in school matters, but like many others went to the west. 
After him Ebenezer L. Sumner is fouud, but aside from some marriage 
connections with neighboring families, we have little save the name. He, 
too. went west. Then came Dr. Henry VanOstrand, who finally went to 
Albion, Michigan. Then succeeded Murray Waterman, who now lives in 
Lyons. The house was built by Mr. Van Ostrand, but was improved by 
Waterman. Then followed Henry Clapper, Eose born, but who has lived 
years in Wolcott. He was his son who married Anginette Muusell, grand- 
daughter of Harvey Mason. From Clapper the farm passed to Bishop ; 
this in 1863. There are eighty- six acres in it. The owner has not lived 
on his farm for some years, finding it more convenient to dwell in the 
Valley, and to thus afford a home to his aged mother-in-law. Cephas is a 
man of many a joke, and enjoys a good laugh. (Charles Garlick is now 
the owner.) 

The next place, that of Mr. Correll, is a part of a very large farm that 
was years ago in the possession of a Mr. Young, a wealthy Genevan, 
whose brother Thomas lived in the Proseus house and managed the estate. 
One of the first dwellers here was Joseph Aldrich, reared at the corners, 
being a son of Amos. To him succeeded one of the Lymans, then Alpheus 
Gillett, Ira Lathrop, and finally the present owner, a German. (Now the 
property of Mrs. John York.) 

Our last place in this district is reached when we come to the long time 
home of Pardon Jones, though he for many years resided in the Valley. I 
can find no earlier name connected with the farm than that of James 
Colborn, the same one who lived so many years in the Griswold district. 
Though his life more properly belongs to the latter neighborhood, it will 



150 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 

not be amiss to state that he was from Pennsylvania, and that his wife was 
Mary Waters of Alloway, town of Lyons, a sister of Mrs. John Deady of 
District Xo. 5. He probably came to this farm in 1816 and helped manage 
the neighl)oring sawmill. Here happened one of those harrowing accidents 
from which no age nor place is free. His oldest boy, a lad of five or there- 
abouts, was found dead in the path connecting the house and the place 
where the father was chopping. There was no mark of violence on his 
body, and his death was accounted for on the supposition that he had 
quietly followed his father, and finding a newly fallen tree across the path, 
had climbed upon this, and was sitting, possibly lying on it, when another 
tree, falling, struck the fallen tree so violently as to kill the lad by the 
concussion. Mr. Colburn was here possibly five years, when he was 
succeeded by Nicholas Stansell, who, in turn, ran the saw-mill. John 
Fosmire also was a resident for a time, but it is more than forty years 
since Pardon Jones located and staid. Mr. Jones was born in Ehode 
Island, and in his ways and sayings retained very much of that quaintness 
for which New England Yankees have been so long noted. In naming the 
characters of the town Pardon would come in early. In coming to Eose 
his first stopping place was near the Lymans, perhaps in that house 
where John Lyman essayed housekeeping, and then he went to the old 
Briggs place, afterward and for years that of " Ken" Sheffield. On this 
farm he lived two years, and then moved to the one so long connected with 
his name. Mr. Jones had filtered through several states and counties 
before reaching our town. His wife, Dorcas Burlingame, was a native of 
Cortland county, and her he had when he came to us. His only son, 
George H., is a resident of Auburn, where he is developing a very 
successful invention of his, viz., a turbine water wheel. Pardon Jones 
died September .5th, 1888, at the age of eighty-four years. 

Once more we are at the end of our school district, the second in popula- 
tion in the town, yet were it not for the village at its centre, so great are 
the changes in modern living, the number of children to attend the public 
school would not be so large as it was sixty years ago. Unless customs 
change, no Malthus can inspire us with fear of overcrowding the earth. 

SCHOOL DISTEICT NO. 10— " Covell's." 

Nov. 7, lSS9—Jan. 30, 1S90. 

However much we may obtain from written records, to him who writes 
there is no satisfaction like that gained from some aged narrator, M'ho. the 
toils of life all past, passes its evening calmly by the fireside, and. sur- 
rounded by loved ones, tells of the events of its earlier and active days. 
Such a source is had as we come to the district frequently referred to as 



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Covell's. "We enter it by turning to the west at Shear's corners, or if we 
took the west road, just south of George Stewart's, by continuing due west. 
This road is the longest straight stretch in the town. Beginning a half 
mile from the Butler line, it continues parallel with the Rose border and a 
little less than two miles south of the north edge, to within half a mile of 
Sodus. It must be, then, about sis miles in length. We enter our neigh- 
borhood through District Xo. 3, whose extreme western resident, Super- 
visor George Catchpole, was mentioned several months since. 

Our first stop is at a pleasant farm house on the north side of the road, 
where we shall find at home a man who, more than sixty years ago, came 
hither, and in the wilderness laid his hearth-stone. Stephen Collins was 
born March 8th, 1S02— eighty-seven years since — and, with his father, 
Thaddeus', family, came to Rose from Phelps. Earlier than this he had 
come in with his brothers, Alpheus and Thaddeus, Jr. In fact, his advent 
was made on horseback, in some way contributing to the good of his kin. 
After the coming of his parents and their making their home near where 
Mrs. Harvey Gloss now lives, he led the usual life of boys in these pioneer 
regions, getting a little schooling in the winter, and having always a pretty 
definite notion of what hard work was, till his marriage, in January, 1822, 
to Clarissa Wilson, a daughter of that Jonathan who had made his early 
home just north of Stewart's corners. They do say that Stephen was a 
most assiduous courter, and that sometimes the boys would untie his 
horse, which would result in his late rider's having to walk home. A 
neighbor says : " His horse was sometimes tied to the fence when I got 
up in the morning to start the day." Such ardor could have only one end- 
ing. So, long before attaining his majority, our friend essayed the yoke of 
matrimony, thus, it will be seen, never really knowing what liberty is. The 
full measure of home life, /. e., work at his fathei-'s home, was exacted in 
spite of his marriage. When the full time had been served, or a little 
after, he came down to this plain and took up his residence in a log house, 
built by Amasa Andrus. The farm itself was a part of the Nicholas pur- 
chase. Two brothers, James and Amasa Andrus, had come with Deacon 
Elizur Flint, first neighbor east, and Amasa located here. James, who 
was married, settled first on the farm where Will Gloss is now. Afterward 
he lived in a log house across the road from the present Collins place, 
built by one Hall. Neither paid anything on their lots, and so, after a 
while, both went to Huron and thence west. Stephen succeeded to the 
farm and betterments, paying therefor nine dollars an acre, a sum consid- 
erably greater than a new lot would cost. But his hands were young and 
strong, and with a clear conscience and a willing heart he went to work. 
He received less from the paternal estate than his brothers ; but he suc- 
ceeded quite as well, a tribute to the zeal and industry of himself and of his 
excellent help-meet. Gould there be embodied in these lines all that this 
aged man can tell of the days early in the century, we might have veritable 



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pictures of the homes and farms of those times. Let him narrate some of 
his observations : " Yes, we began in a log house, and began pretty much 
as others did. There was no mill near at first and grain had to be taken, 
at the nearest, to Wolcott. Then came the one at Glenmark, with saw- 
mills all along the creek to the eastward. Roads cut in and across wher- 
ever the people wished. Gradually, as the country was cleared up and 
fences built, it became necessary to lay out and maintain regular thorough- 
fares : so the temporary ways were closed up. We lived closely, using 
much Indian meal and pork. Game was tolerably abundant. Everybody 
thought strong drink necessary, and I bought, soon after coming here, a 
ten-gallou cask of whisky ; but some how or other I didn't take to the idea, 
and so never had it filled again. I had neighbors who were incessantly 
begging for it. One man, Solomon Fraly, was a lesson to me. He lived 
in the log house, mentioned before, and he drank himself into delirium 
tremens. I wanted nothing of the medium that would reduce men to his 
condition. There were log houses at frequent intervals, even more com- 
mon than the permanent homes of to-day. Quite a ways down there, 
toward the south, was a log shanty, in which lived a family by the name 
of Eiggs. They were wretchedly poor, so poor, indeed, that once they 
were said to have lived two weeks upon leeks. The Hall already men- 
tioned had married a sister of Mr. Eiggs, who was the father of Gowan 
Eiggs, so recently deceased in Huron. To put it in the mildest form pos- 
sible, this early settler was a man of very irregular habits. He sold to 
one Bascom. Then came a Van Wort, and he sold to Henry Ackerman, 
my son-in-law, and myself. The house became my barn, and it, in time, 
fell down. The Halls, Bascoms and Van Worts went west. You can not 
remember the funny way we had to resort to to gather our crops. Did you 
ever see grain drawn upon a bushi No? Well, this is the way it was 
done. We would cut down a small tree or take a branch of a large one 
and hitching a horse or ox to the end of it, would draw whatever could be 
piled on it, and we could get quite a deal, too. Then, too, in cutting grain 
we had to use the sickle entirely, and it was quite an art. Men had as 
much pride in their ability to swing the sickle well, as their sons, in the 
cradle, and grandsons in the reaper. We used to make a band of the first 
clip, then would lay on it enough for a bundle, and so continue across the 
field. When we had cut across, we would bind back, rolling our sickle up 
in our tow frocks, or hanging it on our shoulders. I used the latter way, 
generally. There was more made of the harvest season in those days than 
now. Liquor was considered a necessary part of the programme, and here 
is the refrain of some Pennsylvanians, who came up here to work. When 
making their first band, they would sing : 

'"Good Massa Longstraw, 

Bottle at each end. 

But not in the middle of the band, O.' 



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"This meant, I suppose, that they wanted plenty of drink, but none of 
drink's results in their bands. Homespun was our chief wear. In the 
year there might be woven fifty pounds of wool and one hundred of flax. 
How much money do you suppose I paid out in the making of that barn? 
Well, you couldn't guess. It was just two dollars and a half. Of course, 
it cost me more than that ; but grain was our standard and a day's work 
was rated at one bushel of wheat or two of oats. There were thirteen days' 
work on the framing of the barn. The house was built in 1839." The 
marriage of Mr. Collins and Clarissa Wilson, so early consummated, 
resulted in the birth of several children, as Mary Angeline, who, as 
the wife of S. Wesley Gage, now lives on the old farm, thus making 
pleasant the later days of her aged father. Mr. Gage is a native of Cayuga 
county. They have one daughter, Lillian M., who has had much experi- 
ence as a teacher, but is now at home. (Xow Mrs. J. A. Rose, Hillsdale, 
Michigan.) Their only son, Thaddeus W., died in 1S73, at the age of 
fourteen. Grace, a niece of Mr. Gage, finds with him a pleasant home. 
(Married in 1892 W. H. Lassell of Jersey City). Few people are better 
posted on contemporaneous Rose events than Mrs. Gage. Mr. Collins' 
second daughter, Damaris Adaline, married Henry Ackerman, and now 
lives in Huron. His only son, Thaddeus W., is well known in Wayne 
county, having been for many years a lawyer in Lyons, where he has held 
many offices at the hands of his fellow citizens. He is a graduate of 
Genesee College, now Syracuse University, then in Lima, and of the 
Albany Law School. I was a very small lad when I heard him and John 
Vandenberg of Clyde address the citizens of Rose in the old Baptist Church 
on the subject of slavery. I think it must have been my induction into the 
cause of abolition. He has been three times married. His first wife was 
Lovina A., daughter of William O. Wood of Red Creek. She was the 
mother of T. W. Collins, Jr., a rising young lawyer of Lyons. His second 
wife was Corinthia Bottum of Lyons. Stephen Collins' third daughter, 
Esther L., married James Winchell, then of Rose, now of Sodus, while 
Henrietta M. is Mrs. John Shear of Rose, near Stewart's corners, a 
brother of Peter, John Shear came from Junius. Mr. Collins has been for 
many years a leading member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Twice 
he has gone to Lyons to live with his sou, but on the death of his wife late 
in 1886, he returned to his old home. Though we shall have occasion to 
refer to him often, we shall have to leave him now, happy, I trust, in the 
memories of a well spent life, and in the promise of a glorious life beyond. 
(Died November, 1892. In 1893 the Gages live in the Valley, and 
Prank Kellogg works the farm.) 

The next farm was early taken up by Charles Woodward, who sold his 
betterments to Moses Foster Collins, another son of that first Thaddeus. 
He it was, who, when the century was in its teens, went courting with his 



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brother Thaddeus " over east." He was attracted by the charms of Mary, 
daughter of Alverson Wade, who then lived on what is now the Lewis 
Town place, while Thad. was enamored of Harriet, daughter of Deacon 
Aaron Shepard. It was on these expeditions that to protect themselves 
from wolves, whose howls were alarmingly near, the sparkers armed them- 
selves with stakes from an old wood sled that chanced to be handy. 
Fortunately for them they didn't have to use them. This story was a 
favorite one of Uncle Thad.'s, and many a boy's hair has all but stood on 
end at the recital. Another even better liked by the small boy was about 
a bear that he and Mr. Beals once treed. They chopped the tree down, 
and then, by the help of their dogs, killed the animal as he leaped from 
the fallen tree. When an old man, and when to illustrate, it must have 
caused him a serious effort, he would get down upon the floor on his hands 
and feet to show how the bear acted. No circus ever gave one-half the 
pleasure that that home performance afforded ; and when Stephen Collins 
informs me that Mr. Beals was a Phelps man, that the bear was killed only 
a little further west, near the home of Francis Osborn, and that he went 
down the next morning to help skin it, the whole incident becomes a 
reality. Somehow or other I had grown to think that Mr. Beals and 
possibly Mr. Bear were only creatures of my good relative's imagination. 
Foster Collins married Mary Wade, and by her was the father of a numer- 
ous family. He was himself a member of the Methodist Church. Like 
his brothers, his life began in Phelps, May 22d, 1795, and he finished his 
earthly career July 14th, 1878, in Ann Arbor, Michigan. In addition to 
the names given here, there were several children not named, who died 
early and were buried on the farm. His wife was born in Paris, Oneida 
county, September ISth, 1799, and died in Ann Arbor, August 11th, 1879. 
They were married July 16th, 1816, in what is now Eose, by the Rev. Mr. 
Smith, possibly that Elder S. who was the first Baptist preacher in our 
vicinity. I am under obligations for data to Mr. Collins' oldest daughter, 
Harriet, who, born July 7th, 1817, is a resident of Ann Arbor, Michigan. 
She married September 27th, 1838, in Pittsfield, Washtenaw county, 
Michigan, the Eev. Nelson Eastwood of the Baptist denomination ; their 
one son, John Foster, born December 3rd, 1846, is a Ph. I), from Michigan 
University, 1887, and an assistant professor of chemistry therein. Foster 
Collins' next child was Joseph Wade, born in Rose, September 16th, 1818, 
and he has been twice married ; first to Lucy Raymond, of Lodi, N. Y., 
and second, to Laurie Hincs of Michigan ; he is a Wesleyan Methodist 
minister and the father of eight children, all farmers. Next came Franklin 
B., born September 7th, 1823, an M. D. from Michigan University; he 
died in 1857, leaving one daughter, Mrs. John Bennett of Ann Arbor, 
Michigan; his wife was Cordelia Bristol, of Michigan ; he practiced medi- 
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February 14th, 1826 ; he married Mary McDowell; has been a member of 
the Legislature ; has four children ; and is now extensively engaged in 
grain raising in Dakota ; post office, De Smet. Mary L. Collins, born 
February 11, 1830, became Mrs. Addison McDowell, and died February 
11th, 1884, in Middleville, Barry county, Michigan, the mother of nine 
children. George F. Collins, born March 21st, 1834, married Alvira 
Hepburn, and a farmer, is in Nebraska; he has one son. Betsey M., the 
last of Foster Collins' children, and the only one not born in Rose, became 
Mrs. George Cook, and is a resident of Middleville, Michigan. Her birth- 
place was Pittsfield, August 9th, 1837 ; she has one daughter. Truly this 
Collins-Wade stock was fruitful and of excellent quality. Leaving Rose 
in 1834, the most of Mr. Collins' following years were passed in Pittsfield. 
In Rose he was one of the first board of trustees of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church established in 1832. The Woodward who preceded Mr. Collins on 
this farm went first to the Valley, where for a time he kept tavern, and 
then went west. His wife was Clara, a daughter of Captain John Sherman, 
one of the first settlers. To Foster Collins succeeded John B. Chatterson, 
a son of that Betts C. whom we found in District No. 7. Before leaving 
the Hudson river region he had married Cynthia Sours, a sister of Capt. 
Philip S., long prominent in Huron affairs. His children were all girls, 
viz. : Happilona, whom we have met in North Rose as the widow of 
Samuel Gardner; Mary is dead; Emily lives at the old home with her 
sister Cynthia ; Melvina married Newman Finch of Rose ; Cynthia married 
Andrew Andrus of Huron, and lives on the farm whence years ago her 
parents were borne to their last resting places in the Huron burial ground. 
The Andruses have one daughter, Eveline May. Mr. A. is a son of Ben- 
ham Andrus, who once lived on the old Wright place in District No. 5. 
The farm that Mr. Andrus is managing is a pleasant one, and the house 
that he has added to and repaired has as fine an outlook as any in this 
part of Rose. There is every indication of careful, painstaking farming. 

The next house toward the west is on the south side of the road, and in 
it dwells the family of Henry Gar/clner, a numerous one, for I understand 
that he has thirteen children, though all are not at home. Several years 
since, J. Shanker, a German, bought a small lot here and built a modest 
habitation. He and his wife, adepts in their work, made and sold willow 
baskets, depending upon several dwellers in Rose for the raw material. 
They had four children, and are now themselves both dead. 

Just under the hill is a still smaller house, in which we may find Charles 
Ditton, whose wife, Lovina, is a daughter of James Phillips, on whose 
estate the place is. Down in the vale we may look either way along the 
site of what was to be the Sodus canal. There is a goodly quantity of 
water making its way lakeward, just as it has been doing for ages. The 
century was hardly begun before man, appreciating the power in this 



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stream, began to dam its waters and to erect saw-mills. Stephen Collins 
thinks that the first mill on the creek was built by one Whitmore, who 
lived near the Shear corners, and that it was nearly in front of John 
Phillips'. It was i^robably put up in 1815 or 1816. A road ran down to 
it, entering near Mr. Fisher's stone barn. Succeeding owners were Howe 
and Van Buren. Alfred Lee may have owned it. It went down before 
the beginning of the ditch. A little further north, one "Welch, an early 
comer, had a mill, and still further down the valley a dam was erected by 
Samuel Hunn, on which he had two saw-mills. After him came Simeon 
Barrett, under whom the mills went down, for General Adams prevailed 
upon him to let him run the water off just for a short time, and the site was 
not worth a dam afterward. Across the road where we may still see the 
ridge that formed the dam, Samuel Hunn afterward built a mill on John 
P. Chatterson's laud. Then down about where the railroad crosses the 
vale, Uriah Wade had his dam and mill. It is only recently that the old 
frame entirely disappeared. In fact, were we to follow back through this 
glen we might find traces of all these dams and ponds, where the collected 
water helped to fashion the material whence came the fences and houses of 
the early settler. Now the waters flow unvexed, save as sportive, naked 
boys lash them in juvenile glee, finding in some retired cove no end of the 
pleasure so dear to the juvenile heart and flesh. To be sure, as when I 
saw them, the sun may blister their exposed backs, but sweet cream will 
allay the pain, and to-morrow they will be as fresh for the fun as ever. 

Next there is a hill for us to climb and then we stand where two roads 
cross each other, making a point where the ancient and superstitious buried 
suicides and drove a stake through their hearts, making a terror for Godly 
survivors. But no such ghostly vision greets us, for here, rearing its 
white walls as a bulwark against ignorance and superstition, is a school- 
house, the one known throughout the town as Covell's, thus commemorat- 
ing the name of the good people who for so many years have dwelt beneath 
its shadow. It is the third building on the site. 

The old Chatterson farm extended to the northeast corner. On the 
southeast corner we have the old allotment of the Phillipses. William, 
the first comer of this family, was from the east, possibly remotely from 
Rhode Island. He had not that regard for comfort that some of his 
neighbors possessed, but with his wife, Jane Crandall, reared a large 
family, and died in 1847, at the age of sixty-three years. He claimed to 
be a Quaker in faith, a very rare belief in this town. To the best of my 
knowledge he was the first comer here. The east part of his lot, running 
from the east and west road which we are traveling to the next one south, 
he afterward sold to Samuel Hunn, who came to us from Phelps. In time, 
Mr. P. built his house on the other side of the street, where uow Mr. 
Stopfel resides, and our further discussion of him and his we will withhold 
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On this corner in the long ago Hosea Gillett located, taking up a lot in 
the Nicholas purchase. To some of the old inhabitants he is yet a veritable 
figure, but to far the greater portion of Rose readers he is scarcely more 
than a name. He was said to be a happy-go-lucky man, patterned, perhaps, 
somewhat after his relative Harvey of District No. 3. I am told that both 
he and Harvpy married Burnhams, sisters, and that Hosea's marriage in 
January, 1812, was the vei'y first celebrated in town. I am also impressed 
that these Gilletts were the sons of Nodadiah Gillett, to whom was assigned 
the old Benjamin Seelye farm east of North Rose. It is said that his wife 
bore him sixteen children, and yet, when they had migrated to the west, 
she deserted him for another man. In the rather rough joking of that day 
it is claimed that she left him for fear that she would die childless. One 
picture of this pioneer presents him with a pair of breeches, whose warp 
was coarse swingle tow ; the filling was raveling from stocking, woven by 
his wife and colored by hemlock bark. He came early in the century, and 
finally sold to the Covells, whose first representative, James, came to Rose 
from Galen, though he had lived in Savannah and had married in Pompey. 
His wife was Anna Seymour of that town, and as it was the birthplace of ' 
ex-Governor Horatio Seymour, it is more than likely that they were rela- 
tives. Their first log house was a little west of where Joseph Phillips now 
lives. To them were born numerous children, of whom the oldest, James, 
never resident in Rose, went to Virginia from Clyde, and there died young. 
Maranda married Silas Brown and lived at Shepard's corners. Their only 
daughter became the wife of Lewis Barrett of Rose. Both Mr. and IMrs. 
Brown are buried in the Rose cemetery. Hiram married Huldah Bailey of 
Galen, went west, and died in Ohio. Seymour, of whom we shall see more, 
wedded Clarissa Crafts of Wayne Center, and now lives north of the 
school-house. Charles took for his wife Lizzie, daughter of John I. Smith, 
then living in the district. They now live in Michigan. After the death 
of his wife in 1863, Mr. Covell went to Michigan to live with his favorite 
grandson, James, Seymour's son, and died in 1872. He bore a good repu- 
tation among the early settlers of our town. In 1874 and later, this place 
was the home of W. H. Sutphin, who married an Osborne and now lives 
in Allegan, Michigan. On this place is now found the home of Joseph 
Phillips, whose father, William, has already been referred to, and a very 
pleasant home it is. I only wish that the owner had better health with 
which to enjoy his surroundings. For a number of years he has been a 
confirmed invalid, a subject of much sympathy among his friends. Years 
ago he took for his wife Joanna Waters, one of that family which has 
furnished helpmeets to the Deadys, Desmonds, and Colborns. Nature to 
them has not been unkind, for around their hearthstone has blossomed a 
whole bouquet of juveniles, viz. : Josephine, Jane, Rose, Maranda, 
Charles, Frank, Anna and Florence. Anna, as the wife of Charles Strong, 



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lives in the next house west, which was once Charles Covell's home. 
Lest the race may become extinct, she carries a babe in her arms as she 
answers the knock at the door. (Nearly opposite, Mr. Shoesmith is build- 
ing a house, August, 1893.) 

Francis Osborne lives in a large and commodious brick house. There 

is an air of comfort and culture about it pleasing to contemplate. To 

reach it, we must leave the Strong place on the south side of the road 

behind us ; must go down a slight hill, cross a well-bridged creek which a 

iuvenile Osborne has dammed for purposes useful and sportive, and there, 

just at the end of the impending rise, we shall find the home of the 

Osbornes. The early history of the farm is even more than usually 

obscure. It is probable that it was first taken up by one Dunbar, said to 

be a colored man. David Gates, who married Eoxy Bishop, daughter of 

the first Joel, possibly followed. There was here once a German named 

Nierpas, and Judge Hawley of Lyons once owned it. As tenants, were 

Broderick and Fairbanks ; but the early mists finally clear away, and we 

find Francis Osborne, who made this his home in 1836. He was born in 

Ireland, one of those unyielding north of Ireland Presbyterians who have 

made such excellent American citizens. He came to Rose in 1828, and 

settled first on the place just opposite the old Deacon Lyon farm on the 

Clyde road. His wife was Martha Cowan, whose parents, James and 

Frances, passed their last days in a log house a little west of the present 

structure, and after life's battles sleep in Rose cemetery, whither they 

were borne in 1842 and 1845 respectively. The elder Osbornes passed 

away, the father in 1866, at the age of seventy-seven years, and the mother 

in 1856, in the fifty-seventh year of her age. They, too, sleep in the Rose 

burial ground. Of their children, William M. married Ruth Foist, of a 

prominent Galen family, and now resides in Lyons. He lived for many 

years in the Griswold district on the road north of Ferguson's corners, 

and was a very prominent member of the Rose Methodist Church. James 

married Helen, daughter of Seymour Covell, and is the very next resident 

west. For Catharine we must look in the cemetery, where, at the early 

age of eighteen, she lies by her parents' side. Martha married William 

H. Sutphin, whose former home we lately passed, and who is now in 

Michigan. Francis the second occupies the old home, much improved 

under his care, where several years ago he brought his bride. Flora Adel 

Holbrook of the Valley, a daughter of J. L. Holbrook. They have only 

one child, a son, Mervin Marinus, of natural history proclivities. Mr. O.'s 

youngest sister, Harriet, makes her home with him. (Mrs. Osborne died 

June 1, 1893, aged forty four years.) 

The next place is that of James Osborne, whom we have already 
noted as having mairied Helen Covell. Like his brother, he has built his 
habitation of brick, and it is a fine substantial edifice, obviously useful. 



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;iDd certainly creditable to the street. These good people having no 
(ihildren have adopted two, Carrie and Edna. The former is the wife of 
John Stopfel and they occnpy the next house west, but on the south side of 
the road. It is the property of Mr. Osborne. These gentlemen, James 
and Francis, emulate the virtues of their ancestors, and are pillars in the 
Eose Presbyterian Church. 

Still to the west and facing the road running north is the home of Prank 
Garlick, son of Henry of North Rose. The farm of ninety-two acres was 
for many years in the possession of Hiram Hart, who came hither from 
Junius, the farm having been given to him by his father, who probably 
took the land from the office. The Harts had no children, and after 
selling to Henry Garlick, eighteen years ago, went to Ohio and there died. 
Mr. G. has repaired the house and built barns till the place is very much 
improved. On the east corner is the home of Charles Crisler, whose 
father, Adam, lives in the northeast part of Rose. His wife is Sibyl Day ; 
they have two sons, Ernest and Sidney. A cooper shop near by indicates 
one of Mr. C.'s avocations. From the data in an old Wayne county atlas, 
I conclude that this location once went under the name of Alvord, for next 
west, a quarter of a mile away perhaps, was the nominal residence of 
William and Mary Alvord, whose son, George, dwells next north of Mr. 
Crisler. His home is on the west side of the road ; his wife is Etta 
Johnson. 

Nearly across, and somewhat back from the road, is the residence of 
Henry Dunn, whose wife is Nettie Correll of the Glenmark district. They 
have one child— Nora. The house was built for him by his father, who 
lives a short distance north. Before getting to Hiram Dunn's, we must 
pause a moment at the abode of "Jimmy" Wraight, who is rearing a 
second family of youngsters with the aid of his much younger wife. 

The last estate in this district on this road is on the east side, and here 
for many years have dwelt Hiram Dunn and family. He was one of 
Saratoga county's contributions to Eose. His farm %as bought of John 
Adams and Col. Cook of Sodus. The log house found by him has been 
followed by an ample framed structure. His wife is Jane E. Thompson, 
and their son, Henry, we have already passed. They have had three 
daughters— Mary, Hattie and Rosa. Both Mary and Hattie became wives 
of Monroe Seagar, of the west part of the town. Hattie was first married, 
and on her death Mary became Mrs. S. Rosa is Mrs. Andrew Brower. 

Coming back to the corners, and again going west, we encounter first 
the house belonging to Eli Eiggs. It is, however, occupied by other 
parties, while the owner resides in the new house of George Wraight. 
The latter is the son of James, frequently called " Jimmy" W., wlio, on 
this spot in our centennial, 1876, in October, was most cruelly set upon 
and robbed. He then lived in a log house, and it had in some way become 



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known that he was in possession of a large sum of money. Certain parties 
came to his house in the night, and after nearly killing him, forced from 
him the location of the treasure and carried it off. The robbers were, 
however, soon found, and one turning state's evidence, the other was 
sentenced to a long imprisonment, from which he emerged only a few years 
since. Jimmy, as we have seen, survived the shock to his nerves and 
frame, and is now rearing a new crop of Wraights. Eli Riggs married 
Prances Wraight and has two children, Norman and Hannah, still at home. 
(Mr. Eiggs has since built a new house on his old site. The Wraight 
house is now owned by the widow of Walter Messenger.) 

A little further to the west, were we to look very sharp, we might find 
the remnant of a blacksmith shop, at whose anvil William Eiggs once 
worked. Beyond it and on the same (north) side of the road, William 
lived. He came here in 1866, and took up the farm from the land office. 
Of course there had been many predecessors there ; but they had gone, one 
after the other, he being the first to secure a clear title. Mr. Eiggs came 
here from Lyons, apparently a new family in our midst. His wife was 
Betsey Purdy of Dutchess county, and it is possible that the Riggses also 
came thence. Their oldest son, Henry, married Emily Finch, and lives in 
the north part of Eose ; Eli we have just passed ; James we shall meet in 
District No. 11. George died at the age of seventeen. Mr. Riggs has lost 
five children. He sold to John Creek, an Englishman, but the place is 
now controlled by Lucy Weeks. In the little house, just a few steps 
further west, his son Eli once lived. Both houses are now unoccupied and 
are passing into decay. Mr. Eiggs after selling here moved a little south 
into the Jeffers neighborhood, following Harley Way in the old hill-top 
home. This place is the last in the district. A few rods further and we 
should be at the end of our long road in the Wayne Centre district, and 
very near the Sodus line. 

We are once more at the school-house and a few paces to the north 
bring us to the hoiffe of Seymour Covell. To-day there is no man in Eose 
better known than " Seem " Covell. He has traversed this and neighbor- 
ing towns in buying stock till his rubicund and merry visage is recognized 
without introduction. As Mr. C. is an excellent talker, he may tell his 
own story : " You see, I married a school ma'am, and, with all of her folks, 
went to Michigan, Oakland county. I had just got things cleared up and 
was in a good way when I thought I'd come home and visit my folks. 
After I got here, I found them old and very anxious to have me stay with 
them. I couldn't refuse them, so back I went to Michigan, sold out and 
came home." "Yes," says Mrs. C, "and took me away from all my 
folks. You never thought of that." Mr. Covell is used to interruptions, 
so he placidly proceeds : " One day, after we had been back some time, 
some parties stopped, as I was working near the road and asked the loca- 



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tiou of certain landmarks. Uncle Ira Lathrop, who lived where I do now, 
remarked : ' I'd sell all I have for so much per acre.' I tell you it set me to 
thinking. I told him to wait a little while and I'd think about it. I hated 
to run in debt so much, but I thought it a chance I couldn't afford to lose. 
After a while I mustered up courage to tell him I'd take the farm. And 
then I was afraid he'd back out before the writings could be drawn. But 
he went down to the Valley, and we had the deed drawn there, and I was 
to have twelve years to pay in. Then the old lady wouldn't sign the 
deed." "And I don't blame her a mite; I wouldn't if I had been in her 
place," interrupted Mrs. C. "The idea of signing away one's home. I 
never would." Taking breath, Mr. C. proceeds : " In spite of the old 
lady's failure to sign, I got possession, and have been here ever since. 
The times were good, and the farm laughed. I made big payments. Corn 
fetched a big price. The hogs were heavy and sold well, and at the end 
of three, instead of twelve years, I was ready to square up. So I said to 
Uncle Lathrop, ' I'm ready to pay you if you can get Aunt Jemima's 
signature.' He managed to get her to sign by giving her a mortgage on 
certain property in town that had every prospect of running a long time. 
It did. She never got a cent of interest or principal. I was mighty sorry 
for her, but what was I to do ? Yes ; they were nice folks, Uncle Ira 
Lathrop and bis wife, who had been Jemima Parrish. They came here 
from Phelps. They hadn't any children of their own, but they raised 
three adopted ones, one boy and two girls. The son finally went west, 
while Ann married Clinton Hart, and for a long time lived up west of the 
corners. Martha is the wife of George Correll of the North Eose district, 
and Henry Dunn married her daughter. Somehow or other things didn't 
go first rate after the Lathrops sold the place. Both are dead now. Uriah 
Wade was here before the Lathrops, and he built the log house. He was 
a son of Alverson Wade, over east, and he may have taken the land from 
the oftice, but the orchard was planted by a man named King. After 
leaving here, Wade took up the nest farm north and had a saw-mill away 
down in the glen.'' So far from Mr. C. himself. Now, I may say, that as 
the evening shades of life appear, he and his companion have every reason 
to congratulate themselves on their happy situation. Mrs; Co veil was 
Clarissa Crafts, and her father, Abram, was one of the earliest settlers 
near Wayne Centre, where she was born. She was the school teacher in 
the district when her future husband fell in love with her. Their union 
has resulted in the birth of Helen, the wife of James Osborne ; Charles 
Henry, whom we shall meet on the next place north ; James Egbert, who 
married Hannahett Vanderburgh, and is now in Jackson county, Michigan ; 
Abram Delos, married Helen Griswold and lives south of the Valley ; 
Irving Seymour, who married Florence Dodge, of Hartford, Connecticut, 
and is in business in New Haven, Conn. ; and Huldah Ann, who is 
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162 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 

at home. The house, much improved by Mr. Covell, was built by Lathrop. 
(Since -writing the foregoing, Mrs. Covell has ceased to be interested in 
things earthly, and has passed to her reward, dying Saturday, September 
28th, 1889. Her health had been steadily failing for sometime.) (In 1893 
Mr. Covell lives in the Valley, and the farm belongs to Joseph Phillips.) 

A large barn, with conveniences equally good, north and south, stands 
midway between the homes of Seymour Covell and his sou, Charles. The 
latter has been for some time the county superintendent of the poor. His 
first wife was Jane Haviland of Rose, who was the mother of his only 
child, Rose Adele, the wife of Frank Kellogg of District Ko. 7. He 
married, second. Miss Lillian York of Sodus, daughter of Norman York, 
who was a sergeant in Company D, Ninth Heavy Artillery. He was taken 
prisoner at Monocacy, and never saw the child born to him after his 
enlistment. A comrade in Danville, Va., I have seen him walk the floor 
hours at a time, talking to all who would listen of the wife and little one 
he was never to see. (Mr. and Mrs. Covell have a son, Ross Granger, 
born June 19, 1890.) 

Our dwellings along this road are all on the west side, facing the gorge, 
which was to have been the site of the Sodus canal, an institution whose 
building scarcely more than destroyed the mill privileges along the stream. 
Below us may be distinctly seen the old dams of Hunn'saud Wade's mills. 
A short distance north of Charles Covell's is the home of Seth Woodard, 
whose father, Charles, bought of Henry Young. The latter obtained of 
John I. Smith, who probably took from Uriah \Vade. Of the latter we 
can give the following facts. He was a son of Alverson Wade, encountered 
in District No. 6, and was an exceedingly busy, active man. His wife was 
Sally, a daughter of the first Thaddeus Collins. He was born in Chicopee, 
Mass., July 30, 1782, and was married in 1807. They had seven children, 
and all were born in Wayne county. In 1835 the family went to Michigan, 
taking a water route, by canal and Lake Erie, to Detroit. He settled in 
Concord, Jackson county. In Michigan he married again, his second wife 
being Mary Gates, by whom he had three children. Having been injured 
by a train of cars, he died October 11, 1871. Of these Rose children, the 
oldest sou, Thaddeus, lives in Illinois ; the next, Lawson, in Grand Rapids, 
Mich.; the next, Clinton, in Dakota ; the one following, Chauncey, in But- 
ler, Mich.; the oldest daughter, Paulina, Mrs. Samuel Eddy, in Jamestown, 
Dakota; her sister is Mrs. Cordelia Tripp, of Concord, Mich. The 
youngest son of the children by the first wife is M. D. Wade, of Indian- 
apolis, Ind. Sally (Collins) Wade died in Concord, May 14, 1837. Mr. 
Smith was one of the early emigrants, but I understand that he was for 
several years a justice of the peace here. Mr. Young had a mill in Glen- 
mark. He, too, migrated. Chas. Woodard came from Ontario county, in 
1851. His wife was Caroline Horn, of Lyons, where he now is. His son, 



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Seth, the present occupaut, ruarried Louise M. Messenger, of Glenmark, 
aud their only son bears his grandfather's name, Charles. Levi B. Wood- 
ard and wife, parents of the first Charles, came with him, and for several 
years lived here. They were Canandaigua people. The old house to the 
north, now unoccupied, was built l)y LTriah Wade of hewed basswood logs. 
Clapboarded without and plastered within, no one would suspfct it to be 
a log house were it not for the thickness of the window casings. If I 
could get all the town history that the successive residents here could 
recount, I should have little lacking. The most of the dwellers, however, 
are " beyond the smiling and the weeping." 

The very last citizen in District No. 10 is reached when we come to the 
home of David P. Barnum, whose home we find just south of the railroad. 
He is a native of Putnam county, but went early to Junius and thence to 
■ Wisconsin. His wife is Catharine Burch, of Juniiis. He came here more 
than twenty years ago. His children are Laura M.; Mary, who married 
Albert Ellis, of Glenmark, and Ara, who is at home. In politics Mr. 
Barnum is an uncompromising democrat. (Mrs. Barnum died December 
30, 1889. Mr. B., October 20, 1800.) 

Coming back to the school-house, we will journey southward, and near 
the corners, on the east side of the road, is the home of James Phillips. I 
think his neighbors more often call him "Jim." He is a son of the first 
comer, William. Years ago he married Electa Bradshaw. Of his children, 
Stephen went into the army, served his three years in the 10th Cavalry, 
and died in 1864, on his return. His grave is one of those decorated by 
the Eose veteranS; George married in vSyracuse, and went there to live. 
He once managed the cider mill just south of his father's, under the hill. 
Laura became the wife of Charles Hurst, once well known in and about the 
Valley. Elizabeth married Charles Miner, of that vejy large family 
descended from the Baptist elder. Loviua, as Mrs. Charles Ditton, we 
passed on the road east of the corners. 

Near James Phillips' home was the old home of his father, to whom 
passing reference was made as we went along the east and west road. His 
log house, one of the most primitive in these ])arts, covered once the fol- 
lowing children : Israel, who, on reaching manhood, went west ; James, 
already mentioned ; Isaac, who married Louisa Palmer and went to Gene- 
see county ; JIary, the wife of Leonard Lomljard, who went to Michigan ; 
Levi also went to the Badger State ; Hannah, as the wife of Benjamin 
Snyder, followed her kin to the Peninsular State, as did Lovina, who mar- 
ried John Geer: William, too, joined the same procession and mairied 
west, but, having returned, he lives now in the old Samuel Hunu house. 
The youngest of the family. Joseph, we encountered west of the corners. 
After a time William Phillips bought land oj'posite, an<I put up the frame 
of a large house. This, however, was never finished, and finally fell down. 



164 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 

In it old Mrs. Phillips was bed-ridden for many years. Just under the 
hill is a building used now as a peppermint still ; but it has been a cider 
mill and possibly an evaporator. It is the property of James Phillips. 

Near by, on the west side of the road, is the house of Mr. Stopfel, one of 
whose sons married the adopted daughter of James Osborne. He has 
another son, Louis E., and two daughters. Before him was John H. Eup- 
pert, and from a tombstone in the Rose cemetery, I copy this inscription : 
" John H. Ruppert, born May 29th, 1822, in Willinghausen, Germany ; 
died April 1st, 1882. Co. H, 148 Eegt., N. Y. Vols." One instinctively 
thinks of that Prince Rupert who came from his German home to the 
help of his hard-pushed uncle, Charles the First, of England. This Ger- 
man's grave is another of the cherished ones in our cemetery. 

Between this house and the nest turn to the east were once the homes of 
Messrs. Hollafolla and Fink. All these names, /. e., these last two and 
the preceding two, are reminders of that very quiet German invasion 
which was made in the fifties. George Hollafolla died in 1878, and is 
buried in the Rose cemetery. His holding was a small one and passed 
into the large Barrett farm. Christian Fink had a place of twenty acres, 
but he, too, sold to the Barretts and moved away. Both Fink's and Hol- 
lafolla' s houses have disappeared, leaving not a vestige on the former 
sites, though it is proper to state that Fink's abode was moved over the 
way by Lewis Barrett, and, considerably changed, stands to^lay opposite 
the residence of Jerry Barrett, the property of the latter. 

On the east side, a little further north, resides Charles Stephens, whose 
wife was a daughter of the Mr. Fink just passed. This place is a part of 
the old Wm. Phillips lot — some ten acres in all. Eli Garlick held it years 
ago, and built the house. He also had a blacksmith shop near, an invari- 
able accompaniment to any house owned by him. He sold to George 
Hollafolla, who once lived opposite. Mr. H. passed the place along to 
LaRock, who in turn sold to Abram Covell, a native of the district, but 
now dwelling south of the Valley. 

Our way southward is ended when we reach the road running east. At 
our right is a small shop where Simeon I. Barrett formerly wielded his 
hammer and fashioned iron. Opposite is the house erected by him, and 
in it he passed the later years of his long and useful life. He was born in 
Fisbkill, Dutchess county, New York, February 22, 1794 ; so, if he lives 
till next Washington's birthday, he will be ninety-four years old. He came 
to this town forty-seven years ago, but he left his old home long before 
that. It was in 1815 that he came to a place south of this. The next 
season was that of the famous cold summer of 1816. His wife was Matilda, 
the daughter of a Revolutionary soldier, Ebenezer Pierce, from Massachu- 
setts, and she was worthy of all the affection with which her husband 
regards her. 



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Mr. Barrett is of a very active temperament, though he has done very 
littl(; farm work for the last twenty four years. Like Isaak Walton, he is 
a great fisherman, and at least once a week has to go to Sodas bay for his 
favorite amusement. He reads a great deal and has never used glasses. 
For many years an anti-Mason, he peruses most diligently the columns of 
the Christian Cynosure, a paper managed in opposition to Free Masonry. 
His chief delight, however, is in his Bible, and this he reads constantly. 
He has read it through, consecutively, many times, in addition to the 
desultory reading that forms his chief occupation. "With his faculties 
unimpaired, he has his opinions on all current topics. He does not, like 
so many aged people, live only in the past, but he is actively alive in the 
present. May his good works continue, and may he live to see his fully 
rounded century! Living with his son, Jeremiah P., he has a happy 
home. He has had seven children, some of whom have preceded him to 
the other world. (Mr. B. died in 1887.) 

Uncle " Sim's" wife, to whom he was devoted, died July 30, 186.3, at 
the age of sixty- five. Near them, in Ferguson's burial ground, lie Mrs. 
Barrett's parents, the Pierces, Mr. B.'s mother, Tamar, who died in 1839, 
and several children. Their children, who survived, were John E. who 
married Maiy Pitcher, and lived on the Wayne Centre road further south. 
Luniau Lewis Barrett married Betsey Brown, of Galen ; her mother was 
Seymour Covell's sister. He formerly lived in Rose, owning, among other 
places, that on which Jared Chaddock is now, and for a time was opposite 
the old home place. Till lately, however, he has been in Huron, where 
his only child, Gardner, who married Alice Bradburn, now resides. In 
the siting of 1880 he came to the Valley to live, occupying the house north 
of the corners, owned by Julia Sedore. Mary was the wife of Henry 
("Hack") Sliepard, and died several years since. They had but one 
child, "Libbie," one of the merriest of girls, who died some time l>efore 
her parents. Catharine married Anson Cady, of Galen. The youngest 
son, Jeremiah, made Anna Collier his wife, and, till this season, ran the 
farm. He has no children, and now lives in the Valley, leaving Edward 
Klinck in care of the home acres, one hundred and forty in number. (Mr. 
B. is again on his farm.) It should be added that Simeon Barrett bought 
of John Rhea, who, I find, in 1S37, selling to Thomas J. Lyman subdivi- 
sion Ko. 1, part of lot 425, in Robertson & Howard's tract, three acres, 
deeded by Fellows & MacNab to Henry Dodds. This covered, I suppose, 
some part of the old Barrett place. Rhea had a son, Arnold, and his busi- 
ness was largely the care of saw-mills. 

The house across the road has already been noted as the old Fink build- 
ing, moved from the west side of the north and south road. Now it serves 
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166 ROSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 

Quite a distance back from the road is an old red house, which for many- 
years was .the abode of Samuel Hunn and family. He has been referred to 
before as the purchaser of the eastern part of the old Phillips lot, and as 
the builder of numerous saw-mills. He came to Eose from Phelps. His 
wife was Sally, a sister of Samuel Otto. For many years be was a prom- 
inent member of the Eose Methodist Church, valuable in all her counsels. 
He died in 1875, his wife in 1877, and both lie in the Eose cemetery. 
They had two sons, James and Parsons. The former married a neighbor's 
daughter, Catharine Winchell. He died in 1861, leaving children— Clay- 
ton, now in Indiana ; Sally Ann, who married Fernando Miner, and 
Margaret, the wife of Peter Paine. Mrs. Hunn married, for her second 
husband, Andrew Andrus, of Huron, and for her third, Albert Harper, a 
twin brother of Almon H., sons of Daniel Harper. Both were very large 
men, together weighing more than 500 pounds. Again a widow, she is liv- 
ing in the Valley. Parsons Hunn married Martha Weeks, and had two 
sons, Jerome and Harrison. After Mr. H.'s death, in 1868, Mrs. H. 
married David Brower, of the neighboring town of Sodus. The sons went 
west. I have the impression that the elder Hunns passed their latter days 
in the Valley. The old Hunn house is a tenant house belonging to Charles 
Miner. His wife's uncle, William Phillips, lives in it now. 

A very pretty white house marks the home of Charles Miner, a son of 
Eiley. His wife is James Phillips' daughter, Elizabeth. The house was 
built by Parsons Hunn, the place being a part of the old Hunn property. 
Miner bought directly from Peter Eeam. His children are Ada L., James 
O., and Lydia Jane (and ^Myrtle). This is a favorite neighborhood for 
mint stills, and just before reaching the house, on the side of the hill, is 
one of these tokens of Wayne county's peculiar industry. Mint stills are 
infinitely better for a section of country than mint juleps. 

Mrs. Abram Phillips dwells in the next house, though the same belongs 
to John Phillips, her son. Ourfiist mention of this family was in connec- 
tion with the Chatterson farm in District Xo. 7. They were Hudson river 
people, and, after living in Huron some years, Mr. Phillips died ; so his 
widow, with her aged mother, Mrs. Tipple, came here to live. The place 
was first occupied by James Winchell, a sou of Eiley, who married Esther 
Collins, and now resides in Huron. 

Mrs. Jacob Tipple, on Saturday, the 31st of July, 1887, was congratu- 
lated on the one hundredth return of her natal day. She lived with her 
daughter, Mrs. Abram Phillips, about two miles west of Eose Valley. As 
Margaret Pultz, she was born in 1787, in Wittenberg, Dutchess Co. She 
is of good Dutch stock, her father having been Sebastian Pultz, a lineal 
descendant of the early settlers of New Netherlands. Mrs. Tipple always 
in her speech betrayed the race from which she sprang. In her father's 
familv there were six sons and three daughters, and though all grew up, 





Mrs. Margaret Tipple. 
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none attained remarkable old age. She was next to the youngest child. 
Her father, who was a farmer, did not live beyond the ordinary span of 
life, but her mother died at eighty-eight. Those who dwell much on 
hereditary will see here a reason for the daughter's protracted living. 
Early in her life her father moved to Kinderhook, where she married 
Jacob Tipple. Here her children were born, though her family hardly 
equaled that of her mother. Her daughter, Eliza M., with whom she now 
lives, married Abram Phillips, who, years ago, worked a farm belonging 
to one of the noted Van Buren family. A son, Philip, married and lived 
to middle life, though he has been dead many years. His widow is living 
now near the lake. Many years since Mr. and 3Irs. Tipj^le moved to 
Otsego county, and after living thei-e a while, came to Rose, settling tirst 
in the Seelye neighborhood. Here Mr. Tipple died in 18.53. Afterward 
his widow went to live with Mrs. Phillips. Years ago, though conspicuous 
for the neatness of her home and person, she did not consider hers a strong 
body, and counted perhaps as many ailments as do most i)ersons of sixty 
and past. She was short and stout, and the word "comfortable" would 
apply to her appearance as well as any that I am familiar with. What a 
genial smile always wreathed her face when she greeted her friends. 
Middle-aged people remembered her as '• old Mrs. Tipple "' in their child- 
hood. 

From an article written by me at the time for Tlie Ch/de Times, I take 
the following : "After a hundred years of life we find her in her right 
mind, vividly recalling the days of old. To a lady past seventy, who 
recently visited her, she said : ' Why, Mrs. S., I am glad to see you. Do 
you remember my telling you, thirty years ago, 'You would live to be a 
fat old woman like me, yet ? ' She took her visitor's hand in both of hers 
and pressed the same in sincere pleasure over the meeting. A child of 
seven years accompanied the visitors, and, kissing the venerable lady, was 
kissed in return, 3Irs. Tipple saying: ' You must always remember that 
you have beea kissed by a woman a hundred years old.' The day itself, 
Saturday last, was one of the very hottest of an exceedingly hot season ; 
but the friends and relatives were present in large numbers. It was an 
afternoon of the liveliest kind of congratulations. The chief centre of all 
this scene of pleasure, Mrs. Tipple, clad in a plain black dress, with the 
whitest of lace caps upon her venerable head, sat in her favorite chair in 
the parlor, and received the many hand-shakes and cheering words of her 
numerous vi.sitors. She recalled with wonderful quickness circumstances 
pertaining to those whom she had known, but had not seen for many years. 
My own visit of two weeks since, she immediately mentioned. In person, 
Mrs. Tipple shows her weight of years. Her form is somewhat bowed, 
but her hair is scarcely changed in hue from that of youth. She uses no 
glasses, though she reads but little, and then only in her Dutch Bible. 



168 EOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 

Her chair is a small, straight-backed rocker with no arms. Here she sits 
contentedly many hours at a stretch. A year since she walked unaided, 
but now she requires a helping hand, as when she took a seat on the fron 
porch to sit for her portrait. Had the family of our centenarian been as 
prolific as those of years ago, she would now count her children and chil- 
dren's children by the many scores. Her sou, Philip, had only two 
children, one of whom has three and the other two children. Mrs. Phillips, 
her daughter, has six children living. Of these, four were present, Mrs. 
Phillips herself will be seventy-eight in December ; but shows very few 
traces of infirmities. Her husband, Abram, died in 1884^, at the age of 
eighty-two. The sum total of Mrs. Tipple's living descendants is twenty- 
six, and of these fifteen were present. John H. Phillips lives in Rose ; 
William resides in Fairhaven ; Charles in Eose ; Mrs. Amanda Finch in 
Rose also. Those represent the third generation present. One grandson, 
Nathan Phillips, is in the south, and could not be present." (Died in 
Maryland, June 3, 1893.) 

This fete day was her last, for when the next 30th of July rolled around 
she was lying by the side of the husband whom death had torn from her 
thirty-six years before. " Like flowers at set of sun " her eyes had closed 
in their last sleep, July 7, 1888, and gentle hands performed for her the 
last sad office. She had no illness. " She simply ceased to live." Mrs. 
Phillips is above eighty-one years, but she has wonderful strength of body, 
and may herself attaiq^the great age of her mother. A sou, who works 
for his brother, Johu, stays with her nights, otherwise she is alone, and 
she says that she misses her mother sadly. "Her chair sat right over 
there and she was always in it. I can't tell you how much I miss her." The 
old lady was placed by the side of her husband in the Collins cemetery. 
(In 1S03 Clarence Phillips and wife are living here with Mrs. Phillips.) 

Nearly opposite this house, a road leads southward, passing the home 
of Isaac Boyce and Horatio Baker, and coming out upon the next east and 
west road near John Blynu's. Just beyond, and on the south side, lives 
Darwin Miner, another son of Riley. His wife was Kettie Messenger of 
the Glenmark neighborhood. He bought of Charles Bradburn, who took 
from James Hunn. 

As we go down into the valley, through which flows Thomas' creek, 
which was to mark the site of Gen. Adams' ditch, we may find a pleasant 
white house, looking northward out over the mint still, which John 
Phillips has planted down by the water. This is the Bradburn home. 
With an eye for the antique, we may be pardoned if reference is first made 
to an old log house, having two front doors, which stands to the left of the 
lane leading back to the barns. This is John Winchell's old house ; was 
first put up consideral)ly further -back and then taken down and moved 
to this place nearer the road and just at the point where the road takes a 



ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 169 

short turn to the north to cross the creek. It may be as well to give a 
sketch of the Winchell family now, for we are approachiuo, in fact are in, 
what was once called Winchellville or Canada. Absalom Winchell was 
born in Egremout, Massachusetts, though the family was originally from 
Connecticut, married Byer (Abiah ?) Daly, and, in 1816, moved to the 
town of Galen, south of Ferguson's corners. His children were Jacob, 
John, Riley, Eussell, Lany (who married Calvin Race, and lived and died 
in Phelps), Sally, Lucinda, Maria and Lovina. Except Lany, all of these 
children will be met as we journey through Rose. Jacob, the eldest, a 
soldier in 1812, settled first in Galen with his father ; his wife was Katie 
Bradburn, of Massachusetts ; he afterward lived where Leland Johnson 
now resides, a little east of John Phillips ; he died at the home of David 
Bradburn, brother of his wife and husband of his daughter Jane. John 
was twice married, first, to Mary Losier, and with her lived in a log house 
west of Philander Mitchell's present abode ; she died there ; their children 
were : John, now living in Huron ; Catharine, the wife first of James 
Hunn, and last, of Albert Harper ; Sally Ann, married John Almond of 
Waterloo, moved to Indiana, and there died; Mary, married a Harper; 
Lucretia, a Bennett, and went to Michigan. After the death of his first 
wife, Mr. W. married again, this time Margaret Ackerinan, and moved to 
the log house near where we now are, on the Bradburn farm. By this 
marriage his children were : Lovina, who married Isaac Brewster, who 
died in the army during the Rebellion, leaving two sons — James and 
Eugene. Sarah Jane married James Van Aniburg. John Winchell died 
in the log house, and was buried at Ferguson's corners. His widow died 
with Henry Ackerman in Galen. The place passed from the Winchells to 
Helon Ackerman, and from him through Smith, Van Amburg and Lyman 
Covell to Andrew Bradburn, who came from Gt. Barriugton, Mass., in 
September, 1846, to the place formerly held by William Pixley on the 
Wayne Centre road. His wife was Harriet Jones, of New Marlborough, 
Massachusetts. The Bradburn children reared here were Thomas, now in 
possession ; Charles, who married Jane Brink of Huron, in which town he 
now resides ; Alice, who is Mrs. Gardner Barrett of Huron, and Edward, 
who married Georgie Smith of Rose, and lives in Clyde. Mr. Bradburu 
died in 1873, at the age of fifty-seven, and is buried north of the Valley. 
Thomas Bradburn found his wife in the person of Myra Johnson, a 
daughter of Leland. They have a son, Ray S., a black-eyed youngster, to 
gladden their fireside. In addition to his farm Mr. B. has long run a 
threshing machine. Mrs. Andrew B. makes her home with Thomas. 

Cros.sing the brook, we are facing the house of John Phillips, who has, 
by successive improvements, made his home a very attractive one. As 
already stated, he is a son of Margaret, who resides a few rods west. The 
farm is the old German Van Amburg place. His daughter, Eliza Jane, 



170 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 

married Mr. Phillips, who in time succeeded to the estate. The Van 
Amburgs were from Saratoga county, but German's wife was Elizabeth 
Finch of Yates county. Another daughter, Sarah Caroline, became Mrs. 
Harvey Clapper, once of Rose, but now of Wolcott. German Van Amburg 
died in 1878. The Phillipses have only two children — Clarence and Alice. 
The former married Ina, a daughter of Captain Daniel Harmon, formerly 
of the Valley, and the latter is Mrs. Luther Waldruff. 

The region beyond is known in neighborhood parlance as Minerville, 
from the many Miners who live in the vicinity. On the outskirts of the 
Ville is the home of Leland Johnson, who came from Pownal, Vt. His 
wife was Minerva Goodell, of Williamstown, JIass. Their children are : 
Benjamin S., who married Kittie Van Gelder ; Edna we shall meet in Dis- 
trict Xo. 11 as Mrs. George Worden, and Ehoda, also, as Mrs. Horatio 
Baker ; Myra, we just passed as the mistress of the Bradburn home. 
They have an adojited daughter, 3Iabel Wooster. Before the Johnsons 
was Samuel Cox, from whom they bought, and his father, S. D., bought in 
1868 of H. P. Howard, now of the Valley. Before him was Forte Wilson, 
a brother of Ephraim, a resident further east. The latter's holding must 
go back very near to the land office. By his improvements Mr. Johnson 
has transformed the house and its surroundings. 

The next house has stood in the Bovee name for several years. Stephen 
was the first name, and his widow is still there. Her sons are George and 
Herman. The house belongs to Mr. Johnson. These last two places are 
on the north side of the road. 

The Miners on this street are sons of Eiley Miner, a son of that Elder 
Miner who was one of the first ministers of the Baptist denomination in 
the town. Riley was a stone mason by trade, and was well known in Rose. 
He had twelve children, eleven of whom were present at his funeral. 
There are ten sons in the Eiley Miner family and, save John and Philo, all 
live in Rose. John lives in Mauton, Michigan ; Philo lives in Summer 
Hill, X. Y. ; and Ursula, Mrs. Knapp, is in Weedsport ; Dora, the 
youngest, died February 17, 1891, aged twenty-eight years. In the 
four Miner dwellings we shall find first, William, who married Adaline 
Richardson. They have children, Ida, Irwin (now in the west), Arthur, 
Agnes, Flora, Jennie and Leon. In the next resides the widow of Riley. 
She was, I believe, a Xeal. (Here, too, live James Miner and his wife, 
Jennie Whaley, who was born in Onondaga county. They have one child, 
Blanche. Mr. Miner is a stone mason by trade.) Then comes Edward, 
who nuirried Dora Stearns of Sodus. Their children are Augustus, Ezra, 
Pearl and Sidney. Finally, we have Fernando, whose first wife was Sally 
Ann Hunn, a daughter of James and Catharine. She died in 1875. His 
second wife is Mary Hendrick. A neat, new house makes a very comfort- 
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Minnie, wlio married Joseph Bishop of Galen ; Margaret, who is Mrs. 
Chester Phimb, of Clyde, and Samuel. (Lovina died in May, 1893, aged 23 
years.) 

No part of the district has changed hands more often than these several 
holdings along this road. On a county map, published in 1858, I find 
names that to-day have no lodgment here. For instance, beginning on 
the south side of the road, just east of widow Phillips' home, we find J. 
O. Hunn, now Darwin Miner's home; then C. N. J. Van Amburg, one of 
the many owners of the Bradburn farin. "Mrs. Winchell " occurs, 
possibly the widow of John, and resident in the log house. Then came I. 
Churchill and J. Greatsinger, about whom I knew nothing. Then is the name 
of Mrs. Lyman, possibly the widow of Jesse, and finally, R. Winchell, just 
at the angle of the road, the site of Fernando Miner's house. This was the 
home of Russell Winchell, who died in 1859, aged forty-seven years. His 
wife was Lucinda Ackerman, a daughter of John Winchell's second wife, 
by her first husband. Their children were David, who married an Odell 
an<l lives in Galen ; Margaret Ann married, first, Alexander Harper, and 
second, Ebenezer Odell, both of Galen ; Clarissa, whom we have seen as 
Mrs. Charles Harper, of North Rose, and Betsey Maria, who was Mrs. 
Ebenezer Odell, of Galen. 

Going back to TLeland Johnson's house, we find there, Tiear it, the names 
J. Sherman and H. P. Howard. Then D. Bradburn, brother of Jacob 
Winchell's wife. J. Winchell comes next, and lastly, at the angle on the 
north side, was Riley Winchell's home. His first wife was Clara Hines, 
and their son, James, married Esther Collins, Stephen's daughter, and 
lives in Huron. Another son, Calvin, wedded C. E. LaRock, and dwells 
in North Rose. Riley's second wife was Mary Alworth, a daughter of the 
second wife of that "Sammy " Jones whose eccentricities were dwelt upon 
in our treatment of District No. 7. Their children were : Walter, who 
married a Blakesley and lives in Michigan, and Sophia, who became the 
wife of Henian Bovee, a son of Stephen, and the next neighbor w^-st. He 
married for the third time, his wife being Amanda Swift, of Sodus. Mr. 
Winchell is living south of Clyde. His house became the property of 
Ephraim Wilson, who used it for a time as a tenant house, but not liking 
all the neighbors whom this use brought him, he finally moved it to the 
back i)art of his yard, where, as a sort of catch-all, it stands to-day. We 
have reached the bonnds of the district, for the remaining j^laces on this 
road belong to the Valley neighborhood. 



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DISTRICT XO. 11. — " JEFFEES." 

May 1—Jirne 19, 1890. 

This district occupies the range south of Xo. 10, and extends from the 
Valley neighborhood to that of Wayne Centre. We shall enter it by the 
road leading to the latter place, turning westward just north of the Presby- 
terian Church. Our first stop will be at the home of Wilbur Osborn, a 
sou of Abner, who lives in the next house west, and whom we will inter- 
view for facts pertaining to him and his. He is a native of Lincolnshire, 
England, a brother of Samuel, encountered in District No. 6. His wife is 
Adelia Hendrick. a niece of the late Dr. Hendrick of Clyde. She was, 
when she married Mr. Osborn, the widow of his brother, Isaac, who, as 
may be remembered, was killed by a sti'oke of lightning in the house now 
occupied by Samuel Osborn, Jr., and in which Abner and his wife began 
their married life. They came to this location about twelve years ago, 
buying of Eron X. Thomas. There have been many names here in the 
past. Originally the land goes back to the old Jeffers purchase, and it 
was James J. who built the house now standing, ftome of the land also 
was held by William Pixley, who was connected with the Jeffers by 
marriage. A part also was owned by one of the Clappers. There are now 
in the farm two hundred acres. Mr. Osborn has improved all the belong- 
ings very much, and his barns may favorably compare with almost any in 
the town. His children are Wilbur, who married Jennie Sherman of the 
Valley, and John, who married Anna Fredendall, also of the Valley. 
Wilbur and his wife live in the pleasant white house first reached, which 
was built expressly for them. Mrs. W. Osborn is a daughter of Henry B. 
Sherman, deceased. They have one child, Edna, by name, and a boy liorn 
August, 1890. John Osborn's home is in the Valley. 

Abner Oslwrn has in his possession a valuable Indian relic in the shape 
of a stone hatchet. It was found on the farm of Samuel Osborn, and, 
aside from arrow heads, is the second weapon to my knowledge found in 
the town. Mr. O. is a very pleasant talker ; quite willing to give me all 
the information desired. Among other items, he told me of a relative 
who, in 1841 or 1842, came to this town and bought the lot west of the 
Oaks farm, now belonging to the Welch brothers. This man, an uncle or 
cousin, had made an unfortunate marriage, and despairing, apparently, 
of happiness at home, had disappeared. His wife and others on the old 
English holding finally gave him up entirely, he having last been seen at a 
pul)lic house on his way to town. It was even reported that he might 
have fallen a victim to foul play at the hands of the unscrupulous bank- 
men, or those who keiit the sea away fi-om the fens. Much to the surprise 
of his American relatives he appeared among them as above, and abode 



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with them for some years. He was a carpenter and joiner by trade and 
did some of the work on the McKoon stone house in Butler. His children 
had grown up, and he heard that two of his sons had emigrated to Quebec. 
His paternal instinct drew him there on what proved to be a futile search. 
There was a mystery as to how he had passed the years of his disappear- 
ance. He had with him much valuable material, filling certain trunks and 
boxes. Not finding his sons, he returned to England and there died. 

Just beyond Mr. Jeffers' and on the same side of the road is the home 
of John Jeffers, a son of Xathan, and himself a deaf mute. His wife, also 
a mute, was Mary Dougan, of New York. She had come to Wayne county 
to visit the Pimm family, and while thus visiting met her subsequent 
husband. They have three children, two girls and a boy, all having 
normal faculties. Before J. Jeffers, this place was in the possession of 
Joseph Andrus, whose wife was Henrietta, a sister of Ephraim Wilson. 
They have one daughter, and now live in Huron. In 1S5S it was held 
by Abuer Garlick. An earlier resident, George Fisher, who nuirried 
Betsey Jeffers, would carry us back very near, if not quite, to the Jeffers 
occupation. 

Conspicuous ou the south side of the road are the foundation walls of a 
house, while back of them is a barn. The walls mark the foundation of a 
house which some years ago was burned. Robert Jeffers is the owner, and 
it is claimed by some that the structure was burned by an irate applicant 
for the place on account of his beiug refused. Be this as it may, the cellar 
is there and that is about all. The site calls to mind the name of William 
Pixley, a former owner, whose second wife was Nancy Jeffers, and who 
long since went to Wisconsin. He had a large family. Before him is the 
name Pugsley ; but it is a name only. There is extant a deed to E. N. 
Thomas of four acres from William A. Pixley and Nancy, his wife, dated 
October 16th, 1849, bounded south by David Holmes, west by Ovid Blynn, 
north by east and west road. Quite likely this is the lot. 

Our next stop is at the home of Ovid Blynn, and this we shall find on 
the north side of the road. We shall be very likely to find the old gentle- 
man at home, for his age forbids his straying far. He was born February 
11th, 1803, in Canaan, Columbia county, one of the few who went from 
rathei- than to the happy land of Canaan. His wife was Hannah Haden- 
bnrg, her name proclaiming her German origin, which she owed to one of 
the Hessians, whom Britain sent to America during the Eevolution. Her 
father, not liking his hireling business, deserted and became a reputable 
citizen of this Hudson river country. It was in 1841 that Mr. Blynn 
sought our town, coming here through his brother-in-law, John Phillips, 
a paper maker by trade, who had bought not the present home of Mr. B., 
but one further west of Samuel Way. Phillips never lived here, but his 
widow is now a dweller with her brother, the latter's wife having died in 



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1886 at the age of eighty-three. This first home was a log house nearly 
opposite John H. Blynn's present house west of the corners. It was built 
by Samuel Way. Mr. Blynn tells me that during bis first winter he kept 
his stock fully a mile and a half away, in the barn of the Ways, on the top 
•of the hill to the westward, where the sky and the buildings apparently 
meet. There was then only one framed house in the vicinity, that of 
Eobert Jeffers. The whole region was new, left to the very last on account 
of its low character and the heavy timber covering it. Eoads were nearly 
impassable. Tn the spring it was a half day's task to drive to Clyde, and 
another half day's work to get back. In time Mr. B. built or improved 
his own framed house and barns. These are now in the possession of his 
elder son, John H., who married Catharine Braman, for some years an 
Invalid. They have one daughter, Mrs. Etta Mclntyre of Wolcott. (Ovid 
Blynn died July 12, 1891 ; Mrs. John Blynn in 1893, and Mr. Blynn has 
moved from the corners to this place.) 

The locality so long unsettled rapidly filled up when the way was 
opened, and the vicinity became more thickly inhabited than the older 
portions of the town. About these four corners have dwelt people whose 
names only remain, and some of whom not even the names can be found. 
On the southeast corner was Eobert Vandercook, a cousin of John and 
William H., living with his widowed mother in a log house and having 
twenty-five acres of land. A sister of E. Yandercook married James 
Ferguson. He sold out to Ovid Blynn and went west. There is now no 
trace of the house. Just south of the corners is a house built years since 
by Daniel Wiley for a fanuing-mill shop, and I may state here that in this 
vicinity there were at one time, a long while ago, four places where these 
useful machines for the farm were made. The house in which John Jeffers 
lives was erected for that jiurpose, and in it work was done by Joseph 
Waring, who married Susan Jeffers, and who kept a toll-gate on the Clyde 
road, and his son-in-law, George Clapper. Through Henry Garlick this 
house south of the corners passed into Mr. Blynn's possession, as did also 
the present home of John H. B., which was built by one Peckham of 
Balsam fame. Mr. Peckham, on leaving this neighborhood, went east to 
Johnstown, Montgomery Co. There can be no middle-aged dweller in this 
part of Wayne county who does not recall the doses of Peckham's Balsam, 
whereby, in due time, his colds were supposed to be loosened and he 
restored to health and activity. There were only four acres in the holding. 
Mr. Blynn bought directly of Jeremiah Bennett, who may have taken from 
Peckham. After living in this house for many years, Ovid Blynn bought 
of David Lyman twenty-five acres and the house in which he now resides. 
To his original farm he also added fourteen acres of William Garlick, 
which must have joined him in the west. Mr. B. was a Methodist before 
coming to Eose, and for many years has been a prominent member of the 



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Rose Church. His .secoiul son, Maitiu H., better kuowii in Rose as 
" Matt," was one of the l)est known and most successful teachers in our 
town. In the fall of 1S60, when the writer was just leaving for his first 
term at Palley Seminary in Fulton, "Matt" Blyun was beginning his 
winter's work in the old stone school-house in District No. 7. While not 
necessarily severe, he tolerated no nonsense, and insisted upon strict 
attention to business. Says one pupil, now a tradesman lu Clyde : " He 
was the best teacher I ever had. He made me learn whether I wished to 
or not." Certain it was that his schools always stood well in the eyes of 
the community. Before the Wav he had studied medicine somewhat, and 
consequently when the strife came, he was leady to accept a position in the 
medical department, which he did as hospital steward of the Tenth New 
York Cavalry. But this place was not adapted to his active temperament, 
and he was early in 186.3 commissioned as second lieutenant in the same 
regiment. Thence liis progress upward was rapid, and he was finally 
mustered out in June, 186.5, as brevet lieutenant colonel. Concerning 
his service and record as a soldier, I append extracts from a letter written 
by his comrade. Brevet Lieutenant Colonel N. D. Preston, Pittsburg, Pa. : 
"Captain M. H. Blynn's record as a soldier was an enviable one. He was 
one of the most efficient and reliable officers in our regiment. " * * * 
The first I remember of him he was hospital steward. From this position 
he rose rapidly, not by favoritism or influence, but by merit, until, as I have 
said, he came to be looked upon as one of the best officers in the regiment." 
After the War he finished his medical studies, graduating in New York in 
the spring of 1866. He then accepted a government medical appointment 
and was in South Carolina for some time, but coming north, finally he 
located in Cicero, Onondaga county, where he Iniilt up an excellent piac- 
tice and reputation. He there married Frank Douglas, but liis career was 
suddenly ended December 10th, 1883, by the rupture of the artery of the 
stomach. He was at the time in his forty-eighth year. (The old Blynu 
place is now owned and occupied by Mr. Isaac Boyce.) 

Our discussion of the BIynn family has led us on all sides of the very 
comfortable house situated on the northeast corner of the cross-roads. As 
usual in these parts, we are on early Jeffers ground, and this place was 
once the property of Mrs. Hannah Dodds. In 1858 it belonged to Judd B. 
Lackey, who long since went to Michigan. He was a brother of Mrs. 
Susan Wykoff, of the Valley district, and his wife was Martha Hurlburt, 
who died in Lanesburg, Mich., January 28, 1890, aged sixty-three years. 
He was for some time an employee of E. N. Thomas, in the latter's saw- 
mill. (Mr. L. died in LanesVmrg, Nov. 4, 1890.) For some years the 
place has stood in the name of Fidelus Kaiser, who is German born. His 
wife was Magdalena Garling, a native of Alsace, one of the long fought for 
Rhine provinces. Their children were Elizabeth, who, as Mrs. Jacob 



17G ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 

Miller, lives in Michigan ; Mary, who is Mrs. William Neilson, of Canada ; 
Valentine, living in Wayne Centre ; George Philip, in Macedon ; W^illiam 
Henry, in Tonawanda ; John E., who lives in the Valley, and Alfred, who 
died at the age of twenty- five. Mr. Kaiser settled first in Wayne Centre, 
but afterward came this way. His faithful wife pas.sed to her reward on 
the 4th of June, 1889, at the age of seventy years. Since her death Mr. 
K. has not been much at his old home, but has rather visited about among 
his children. (Died Feb. 11, 1893.) 

AVere we from this point to take the south road, we would soon reach 
the confines of the Griswold district ; but there are no more dwellers in 
District Xo. 11. Should we go north, which we proceed to do, we would 
soon find a small house, with pleasant inmates, on the west side of the 
road, that of Horatio Baker, who came to Rose from Geneva. He bought 
his farm of twenty-five acres from Julius Smith, who now lives in Sodus. 
The latter built the house. Mr. Baker's wife is Rhoda, daughter of 
Leland Johnson, of District No. 10. Three children gladden the fireside — 
Mabel, Earl and an unnamed girl baby, who was monarch of the cradle 
when I called. 

It should be stated that thirty years since, two houses were found on 
the east side of the road, between the corners and this point. In one of 
them dwelt Merrill Pease, of whom more will be said later, and in the 
northern one, C. V. Smith, of whom I have only the name. There are no 
traces of habitations now. 

Still northward and on the east side Isaac Boyce resides. His neighbors 
pronounce his name as though it were spelled Bice. His father was 
Stephen, and the old family home was the place southwest of the Valley; 
now held by Judson Chaddock. His mother was Mary Ann, daughter of 
Nathan Jeffers. Isaac came to this place in 1871, buying out Eli Garlick, 
who, as usual, had a blacksmith -shop hard by. Mr. Boyce's wife is 
Lany Ream, a sister of Fred Ream, who lives further west. Her family 
came from Germany thirty or more years ago. There are two boys — 
Charles and John, who, when I called, were helping their father in har- 
vesting grain. The house was built by Eli Garlick, and there are twenty- 
seven acres in the farm. A few rods to the north we should find the end 
of the road, the same terminating in District No. 10. (Mr. Boyce has sold 
to Burt Haviland, who will occupy in 189-t.) 

We must return to the corners and resume our westward way. Over 
the hill, and beyond John Blynn's, were we to look carefully on the south 
side of the road, we might find a filled up well, the same marking the site 
of the log house in which once dwelt Merrill Pease and his wife. Being 
childless, they passed their last years with William Dodds. Mr. P. 
peddled Peckham's Balsam, and the story is yet told of him that when he 
sold a bottle, he was wont to say: -'After taking the balsam, you had 



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better drink a little water, so as to wash it down on the lungs." Where 
could he have studied physiology? His acres passed first to William 
Garlick and then to Ovid Blynn. Before Pease, was one Stewart, whose 
son, William, married Martha, Mr. Pease's niece. 

On the north side, some rods back from the street, is a very pretty 
cobble-stone hol^se, the very first met on this I'oad. Here, till recently, 
dwelt Jared Chaddock and family. The earliest resident whom I can find 
was William Desmond. He was born in Ireland, an uncle of the William 
Desmond residing east of the Valley. He took up the land from the oifice 
and made the usual weary trips to Geneva to make his payments. He 
built the first log house and lived and died in it. He was only fifteen 
years old when he came to this country, and his home was with his 
brother, John, till his marriage, at the age of twenty-two, to Lucinda 
Winchell. Her brother-in-law. Esquire Mitchell, married them, and she 
bore nine children to him. He died in 1849, aged forty-two years. His 
widow subsequently married Edward Horn, and died at the age of seventy- 
eight. Three of their children died early, but six are still living, viz., 
John, who resides in Huron; Timothy, in Clyde; Frank, in Missouri; 
Mrs. Burch and Mrs. Cleveland, both in Rose ; William, who lives in 
Arcadia. To him succeeded William Mitchell, to whom we owe the stone 
house. He was the second son of Philander, long known as " 'Squire " 
Mitchell, of District No. 13. He married Jane Grenell, of that family so 
long identified with Ferguson's corners, and now lives in Lyons. After 
him came Henry Akerman, Stephen Collins' son-in-law, who built the 
framed addition to the house and added to the barn. After him came a 
Mr. Foster ; then Lewis Barrett, now of the Valley ; next Philander 
Mitchell, 2d; after him Fred Ream, whose present home is further west; 
then Samuel Garlick, and lastly, the late occupant, who has made many 
improvements. In the farm are fifty-seven acres, very pleasantly located. 
Reference to Jared Chaddock was made in our leaving District No. 9, where 
he was named among the children of William Chaddock, 2d. His wife, as 
stated there, was Mii-iam Durfee, of Marion, a public spirited lady, who is 
interested in everything that pertains to the good of the town. They have 
only one child, Maude Evelyn. Mr. Chaddock himself was one of the early 
enlisted men from Rose, going through the War in the 67th New York, a 
regiment that began its work at Big Bethel, went through the Peninsula, 
Fredericksburg and Grant's "Fight it out on this line" campaigns. In 
his town "he is noted for his devotion to the temperance cause and for his 
unfailing interest in the Grand Army of the Republic. It has been doubted 
by some whether the Sodus encampment, each August, would be a success 
if Jared should miss it. He is always first there and the last to leave. 
Only a few weeks since the farm passed into the hands of Miss Lucinda 
Mitchell, and Jared has moved to the Valley. (Now owned by Cornelius 
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Marsh, who has rebuilt the barns and house, making them very attractive.) 
Our next stop is on the south side of the road, and if our old friend, 
Cornelius Marsh, is at home, we are sure of a hearty welcome. His name 
was first given in our rambles as the owner for some years of the Joe Wade 
farm in District No. 7, and again as one of Amos Marsh's sons in District 
No. 5. Since leaving the eastern part of the town he has moved about 
considerably, and we now find him residing on the William Garlick farm. 
I call his attention to the solitary tree, standing on the very top of the last 
range of Rose hills to the east, and in the south part of the second lot 
from the north end of the ridge, and tell him that his birthplace is only 
just over that tree, a few rods further south. The point is between three 
and four miles away, but it seems only a brief distance. The house in 
which the family lives is very old, a log one, yet no one would suspect it, 
for the squared logs are clapboarded without and lathed and plastered 
within, similar to the one in District No. 10 built by Uriah Wade. From 
time to time additions and changes have been made till the structure has 
many crooks and angles. There are here a son, William, taller than his 
father ; a daughter, Irene, just blossoming into womanhood, and Cornelius, 
Jr., a black-eyed boy, at the happy and careless age just before his teens. 
(Irene Marsh was married in March, 1893, to Frank J. Mitchell.) 
William Garlick, referred to in our North Eose article, formerly owned 
this place and long lived here. He sold in 1881 to his son, Samuel. His 
first wife was Caroline Clary, from the northern part of the town. They 
had but one son, Samuel, who is now a Presbyterian minister, living near 
Ithaca. Mrs. Garlick died in 1881, aged seventy-two years. Her hus- 
band, later, married again, and now lives at Woodmont, Conn., near the 
old home of the Garlick family. The soa, Samuel, took a theological 
course in the Auburn Seminary. He married Martha Delamatter, of 
Eose, whose parents have since moved to Michigan. Their children are 
Lena, who is Mrs. Jay Mack, of Ludlowville, N. Y., and Carrie, at home. 
(Now Junius, where Mr. G. is pastor of the Presbyterian Church.) Before 
Mr. Garlick, was John Nelson Pease, who inherited from his father, Alanson. 
His wife was a daughter of Stephen Boyce, and he long since went to Wis- 
consin. He was a member of the Methodist Church. Alanson Pease was 
probably the first holder and the builder of the house. His wife was 
Nancy, a daughter of the first Eobert Jeffers. They had children — John 
N.; Martha, the wife of William Stewart, and Permillia, who married an 
Ethridge, in Wisconsin. Mr. Pease was known in town as "Old Honesty," 
and dying, was buried in the Jeffers ground, further west. His widow 
accompanied her son to the far west. This farm of fifty acres is on lot 
238, and in an old deed, dated January 20, 1850, I find that John N. Pease 
sold to Eron N. Thomas, who at one time or another had his name con- 
nected with very many farms in these parts. He must have passed the 



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ownership to Mr. Garlick. la this deed I find boundaries as follows : North 
by Samuel Jeffers, east by the same, south by Merrill Pease and Franklin 
Finch, and west by Henry Wagoner and Frederick Nusbikel. What 
changes have taken place in the interreuing foi-ty years, I am unable to 
state. 

Nearly across the way is the home of Gideon Barrett, whose father, 
John, bought, long since, of Henry Streeter. The latter was the first hus- 
band of Maria Winchell, a younger sister of Mrs. Sally Mitchell. Their 
sons were Alouzo and Jonah. John R. Barrett, as we learned in District Xo. 
10, was the oldest son of Simeon Barrett. He married Mary Pitcher, of 
Columbia county, a sister of Mrs. William H. Vandercook. This farm, 
when he took it, was mostly new land, and he found work enough in try- 
ing to reduce it to a proper condition of cultivation. For the latter part 
of Mr. Barrett's life, he was sadly afflicted, being almost helpless for eight 
years from rheumatism. He died in his forty-ninth year. For many 
years he was a conspicuous figure at the religious meetings of the town, 
being one of the first to leave the Methodist Church at the formation of the 
Free Methodist organization. The children in this family were Gertrude, 
who became the wife of Harmon Case, recently deceased, a Free Methodist 
minister ; Gideon, who holds the paternal acres, forty-six in number, and 
whose wife is Emma Vanderburgh, of the Lyman district ; Alice, who died 
at the age of nine years, in 1865, and Helen, who married George S. Bliss, 
of Clyde. Gideon Barrett has very much improved the farm, and his 
father would hardly recognize the house, could he again look at it. In 
this home are two children — Georgie Emma and Florence May. 

Beyond this farm we go past several fertile fields (all the laud here is 
good) and are confronted on the north side of the road by a large, well 
appointed barn, now the property of George Jeffers, but for many years 
it stood in the name of Loren Lane : and here, among the peach trees, was 
a very pleasant home. He bought of "Little" William Jeffers, son of 
William, and thereby a grandson of the first Robert Jeffers. It will 
doubtless be understood why this is called the Jeffers neighborhood. 
Loren Lane's wife was Fanny M. Van Marter. Their children were 
Johnson V., to be met later; L. Nelson, who married Reliecca Chidester, 
of the north jiart of the district, and who now lives in Michigan, and 
Elizabeth, who married, first, John Rhea, and second, William Story, liv- 
ing now in Canada. Recently the house has been destroyed, but there is 
no better building spot in this part of Rose. 

Across the way, and for some distance to the south, are the lands of 
Fred Ream, who lives on the next corner. A very fine apple orchard 
occupies the field first met and this extends to the next north and south 
road. In the lots to the south have been, in the years past, one or two 
mint stills. There is also a spi'ing of sufficient magnitude to find a loca- 
tion in the county atlas. 



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The next building is the school-house, in some respects the most noted 
in town. It is called indifferently "Spunk" and "Jeffers." The latter 
name is readily evident, but to the former there hangeth a tale. This 
neighborhood was ever clannish. In one way or another the people were 
related. They did not like to go down to the Griswold district to school, 
nor to the Covell district north. They were bound to have a school of 
their own. Old Eobert Jeffers gave the laud for the building, and willy, 
nilly, they had their school-house and their school. They were spunky 
about it, and, lo! the name clings to the building to this day, not only to 
the iirst edifice, but to its successor, and bids fair to remain indefinitely. 
Again, this was the chosen home of the Neversweats. "And who were 
they!" the interested reader asks at once. "Well, if every name and term 
used in this town had given me as much trouble in looking up, the history 
of Eose would have required an age like unto that of Methuselah to 
accomplish it. Everybody knew about the Neversweats ; could tell long 
stories about their meetings ; but the one who could tell why they were 
thus termed could not easily be found. In the history of Wayne county, 
published in 1877, quite a little space is given to them, but the article 
i-eally tells us nothing. An aged resident says : ' ' They were good men 
and women who did not like the forms and ceremonies of the churches and 
so withdrew and held meetings here in this school-house. They had no 
organization, but every one did as he thought best." This did not give 
me the reason for the peculiar name. "Oh," says another, "John Corn- 
wall was there one night, and he, always full of fun and ridicule, just 
called them Xeversweats, and the name stuck." But this did not satisfy 
me. Cornwall may have given them the name, but why? Finally, my 
seai-chings found this good lady, who said that the meetings were often 
protracted long into the night, sometimes till nearly morning, and that the 
expression used occasionally ran like this : " We'll hold on till morning 
and never sweat a drop. We'll never tire ; we'll work constantly," and 
so on in a similar strain. That an irreligious fun lover should catch at 
the expression "Neversweat" was the likeliest thing in the world, and 
the people were named just as long as their memory continues. It is 
stated that one prime cause of the start of the meetings was the desire of 
one of the near dwellers to preach, he claiming that he had had a " call," 
but the quarterly conference being quite certain that it was some other 
sound he heard, refused ; hence more " spunk " and the peculiar religion- 
ists. By good people, the meetings are recalled as exceedingly spirited 
affairs, the like of which can hardly be found to-day. To the boys and 
gii-ls who sat on the writing falls they were very entertaining. There is no 
doubt that they were productive of good. Though the Neversweats are 
numbered with other defunct bodies, there ai-e many people in the vicinity 
who, impressed by the peculiar characteristics of these people, do not 



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aflaiiate with any church. They claim to be and are, I think, excellent 
people, but when asked to what religious body they l)elong, the reply is : 
" He is, or I am, a stand alone." In all my goings up and down the world, 
this neighborhood presents to»me the first instances of this peculiar relig- 
ious status. If all were "stand alones," the assembling of ourselves 
together specially enjoined by the Bible would be rather infrequent. I 
believe there are some others like-minded in Rose, but this neighborhood 
seems to have been the birthplace of the notion. 

Another remove brings us to the four corners, where the fences are well 
covered with indications of tradesmen's enterprise, but never a sign to tell 
whither the roads lead. In that sweet-by-and-by, the few living may see, 
New England's example will have been followed to the extent of rearing 
at such a convenient point a guide-board, which will proclaim to the 
passers-by the distance to Lyons, to Clyde, or to the Valley. Now the 
manifold virtues of Barnes, the clothier, are frequently set forth ; but the 
traveling public would like to know how far the journey has progressed, 
how much longer it is to last, and the direction it must take. An excellent 
location for a guide-board. Neighbor Eeam, won't you be the first to set 
the town a pattern ? 

Should we turn to our left and go toward the south, we should find no 
house till we reach the Griswold district, and we are not ready for that 
yet. On each side of the road we should find the fertile farm of Fred 
Eeam, whose home is on the northwest angle made by these crossing 
thoroughfares. If interested in indications of prosperity, we will give 
more than a passing glance at the well built and well painted barn that 
stands west of the house. The master here enjoys having his belongings 
well kept. Mr. Eeam is of German birth. (His name in German is 
Eihm), though at his birth, his native city, Strasburg, was on French 
territory. His father, Peter, came to this country many years since and 
located on this place, then held by E. Nusbikel, a family that afterward 
went to Lyons, where members of it are to-day engaged in trade. Before 
the last named was Matthias Van Horn, whose wife was a Winchell. He 
went west long ago. Fred Beam's wife is Lovina, daughter of the first 
Philander Mitchell, and his children are : Alice F. and Edith L., both at 
home. There are one hundred and three acres in the farm. Mr. Eeam 
was one of the drafted contingent during the War. He says that with others 
he reported at Auburn and was sent home for a week. On his second 
reporting, he was told to go home and wait till sent for. He has been 
waiting ever since. The collapse of the Eebellion rendered his enlistment 
unnecessary. He tells me that he has not as yet applied for a pension on 
account of his military services. 

Just north of this place and on the same side of the road is the attractive 
home of Johnson Y. Lane, who is a son of Loren, once living to the east of 



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the corner. All these well-appointed bnildings are of Mr. Lane's own 
construction. He is himself an evangelist and not a member of any 
denomination. Much of his time is thus required away from home. His 
wife is Sarah Melinda, a daughter of Lorenzo Griswold, once resident 
further north. They have only one child, Irving J., still at home. Mrs. 
Lane's mother, now Mrs. Franklin Finch, passes some portion of her time 
in this place. (Mr. Lane died July 5, 1890. Irving J. married Etha J. 
Hetta of Glenmark, and lives on the Samuel Garlick place.) 

Xorth of and immediately opposite there was once a house occupied by 
W. Meeks. I think I have heard it stated that he was a shoemaker. 
Further, I cannot affirm, save to state that to characteristics such as his 
name implies, has been promised the inheritance of the earth. 

From this point northward to the beginning of Covell's district, the 
locality was known in former days as " Balsam ville," all owing to the 
manufacture of Peckham's Balsam, once made by Selden Borden, and I am 
told that as many houses have been torn away as are yet standing. Even 
now the number seems strangely large for a farming community. About 
each home is a small enclosure, scarcely more than a village lot. 

So, then, proceeding on our way, we shall first halt at the home of 
George Jeffers. South of him there is a noticeable angle in the road, giving 
it a slight turn toward the east. The farm is old Jeffers' land, and in this 
house Nathan Jeffers died. In 1858, it is recorded, it was the home of Mrs. 
J., who is now living in the Yalley. Nelson Lane next owned it, and he 
sold to George Jeffers, who seems to have a faculty of getting all that joins 
him. His surroundings are becoming more and more convenient every 
day. For a long time a deputy sheriff of Wayne county, he is well known. 
There are ninety-eight acres in his farm. His wife is Eliza, daughter 
of Leonard Mitchell, and thereby grand-daughter of the first Philander. 
They have three children— Willard, Frank and May. To those whose lot 
it is to till steep hills and unresponsive swamps, the almost ideal lay of 
Mr. Jeffers' land must be very inviting. The next house is used by Mr. 
Jeffers for rental. It was built by John Burt, whose wife was Eleanor, a 
half sister of the present owner. They went west long ago and died there. 
Thirty years since it was held by a Mrs. Potter ; fifteen years ago by F. 
Blake, and now people by the name of Eice occupy it. 

Opposite is the home of two very good people by the name of Kamp. 
Germany itself does not contain ten acres of more Germanized territory 
than are those belonging to Kasper Kamp. In the fifties this place was 
ascribed to S. Barrett. John B. once owned it, and he sold to Mr. Kamp. 
The latter has children residents in other parts of the country ; and they 
are thoroughly Americanized, but Kasper and his frau " can no sprek " 
English at all. John Chinaman, who does washee-washee in our cities, is 
not one whit more difficult to assimilate than are these good people to 
whom Deutschland clings in every particular. (Mr. Kamp has since died.) 



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Next is the unoccupied house of Melvin Lane. He is a nephew of Loren, 
his father being Luther. He is now in the west. His house looks desolate 
and forsaken, as it apparently is. Its remoteness from the stone-throwing 
village boys has alone saved the window lights. Perhaps we shall not be 
blamed if we peer in, having pushed our way through branches and bur- 
docks to the side of the house. Truly, the presence of the master is 
necessary to prevent decay and destruction. Pompeiian ruins could not 
afford much more in the way of dust and dirt. It is the old Borden place, 
where Selden made the famous balsam. 

The next house was built by John Chidester, to whom Lorenzo Griswold 
sold two acres of land. He sold to Samuel Clary, a brother of William 
Garlick's first wife. These people died here. A daughter by the name of 
Eose is married and lives near Eochester. A son went away long since. 
Now the place is occuiJied by William Armstrong, whose daughter, Kate, 
is the wife of Henry Fredendall of the Valley. 

We reach our northern limits when we come to the next place. Here, 
many years ago, came Lorenzo Griswold, having bought one hundred acres 
of laud with the inevitable log house from William Stewart, who thereupon 
went west. He had a brother, Solomon, who once lived opposite to Kasper 
Kamp's home. Mr. Griswold"s wife was Betsey, the second daughter of 
Nathan Jeffers. Their children were : 3Iary Eliza, who married Nathaniel 
Weeks, now in Michigan ; William H. of the Valley, who made the Weeks 
account square by marrying Nathaniel's sister Julia ; Benjamin Frank, 
who died when twelve years old ; Sarah Melinda, already met as Mrs. J. 
V. Lane ; Helen, who is Mrs. Abram Covell, now south of the Valley ; 
John Willis, who died when twenty years old, and Eachel, who died in 
infancy. Mr. Griswold himself died in 1851, in his forty-fourth year. It 
has been stated in these annals that his widow afterward became Mrs. 
Franklin Finch of the same district. For some time subsequent to Mr. G.'s 
death the place was held by the family, till it passed into the hands of 
Arthur Dougan, whose wife was Damaris, a sister of EiAraim Wilson, 
first, of the Valley district. Mr. D. was from Phelps, to which town he 
returned when his wife died. They had a son, Jerome, who was prominent 
in Eose musical matters, and who, I think, enlisted from Eose. The farm 
is now owned by Simeon Van Buskirk of Ontario county, whose son, 
Thomas, occupies it. 

Eeversing our voyage and going southward, it is impossible to repress a 
wish that we might have every name of the people whose living here was 
too brief for any record. How many missing genealogical links might thus 
be supplied, but the search would be fruitless. Even our agricultural 
town, with its permanent class, has afforded shelter for a brief time to 
those who have folded their tents, like the Arabs, and as silently stolen 
away. Only contemporaries can tell to-day where the dwelling places 
were. 



184 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 

We are again at the corners, and as we walk or ride along the valley we 
might, had we eyes sharp enough, find traces of former habitations. On 
the 1858 map, just west of what is now Fred Ream's house, was put down 
a name, which, after diligent effort, I have given up as undecipherable. 
It certainly begins with St., then it runs into the delineation of the hill 
beyond and ends in schif. It is suggestive of something decidedly German, 
and quite likely some ancient resident in these parts can tell about it. In 
the 1874 atlas Fred Eeam is put down as the owner of both houses, but 
now I can find only one, viz., the one in which he resides. 

Here begins the elegant fence with which the Glens have separated their 
farm from the road. Made of wood and wire and painted white, it has 
nothing approaching it in the town. This east and west road of ours is 
like the young Lochinvar, who *' staid not for brake, and he stopped not 
for stone," for it makes no concession whatever to the hills in its way. 
Westward it started and it pursues its course remorselessly. As with 
Sheridan on his famous Cedar creek ride, "hills rose and fell," so here 
we are uplifted, as on the crest of an ocean billow, and again we find our 
selves humbly at the bottom of the trough. ISTow we must mount upward, 
till reaching the summit, we may see the final range of Eose hills to the 
east and are confronted by the final line in the west. Our white fence has 
been at our right as we climbed, and while the horse takes a merited rest 
we will alight and call on the Glens. A very pretty marquee is set up in 
the front yard. That belongs to the "Sam" Glen's children, and if our 
call is in mid-summer, we may find "Sam" himself happily smoking, 
taking the othim cum dignitate which his New York life will not afford. 
His figure and bearing will warrant the conclusion that his way through 
life is not entirely without some of its good things. Again the house and 
outbuildings all bear testimony to the interest that ' ' Bill ' ' and ' ' Sam ' ' 
take in the old home. Their mother meets us at the door and invites us 
to a seat in the front room, and our pleasure at meeting her is more than 
ordinary, for her son, John, was the writer's chum away back in the early 
sixties at Falley Seminary. Some folks, Eichard Grant White among 
others, have descanted on the inelegance of the word " chum," but to tiie 
old school boy it arouses recollections and brings out old colorings that 
few other words afford. So, then, elegant or otherwise, John was our 
chum, and a good one too. If he did rather more than half the small amount 
of work that we had to do, it was because he liked to work, not that his 

chum, was 1 , well, disinclined. So, then, for the first time in my life, 

I am talking with John's mother, and she tells me that she and her late 
husband, William, were Saratoga county born — he in the town of Milton, 
and she as Nancy Cole, in Galway ; that they came to Galen in 1855, and 
to this farm in 1858. Originally they were members of the Methodist 
Church, but at the time of the formation of the Free Methodist body, they 



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united with it. Their children are : William, who married Louise "Worden, 
of the western part of the district, and now lives in Lyons, having one son, 
Willard. As " Bill" Glen, few men ever residing in Rose have a more 
general county reputation than he. From the farm he, years since, went 
into Charles Wright's store in the Valley, and there remained for many 
years. Finally beginning to dabble in politics, he went from one position 
to another till he became the sheriff of Wayne county, moving then to 
Lyons. He has since made that thriving place his home. The next sou, 
Samuel, married Cornelia Smith of Xew York City, and has for some 
years been in business in Gotham, sending annually his family to the old 
home, where he passes as much time as he can. John has already been 
introduced. He married Lucy Bullard of Williamson, and now lives in 
California. His exceeding goodness — I will not say that he monopolized 
this trait for the family — could lead him in only one direction, viz., to the 
ministry. So, very soon after leaving school — he could then make long 
and most excellent prayers — we find him in the traveling work of the Free 
Methodist Church. His experience was a varied one in the north and 
south till failing health forced his removal to the Pacific coast. Elias, the 
youngest son, married Mary Hill, near Albany, and a teacher, lives in 
Cortland. The daughters, Harriet, married Wesley Burns, in Alton, and 
Henrietta died in 1869 at the age of twenty. lu addition to the home in 
which widow Glen resides, there is a tenant house just back of the garden 
in which lives Orrin Carpenter, whose wife was a Dodds, grand-daughter 
of Mrs. Hannah D., who lives opposite. They have one child. The Glens 
bought of David Stanley and Calvin Pease, and before them the place had 
been owned by Loren Lane and Samuel Jeffers. (Mrs. Glen died June 1, 
1893.) 

Just over the way, on the south side, is the home of Jeffers Dodds, and 
now we are surely on Jeffers soil, for Mr. D. is a grandson of the first 
Eobert, and the house is within a stone's throw of the old home. This 
house, occupying a commanding site, was built for the present occupant. 
He is the second son of William Dodds and Hannah Jeffers, his wife. His 
own wife is Jane Fosmire, and their children are : Eva, who married 
Clifford Lee of District No. 6; the latter's early death left her a very 
youthful widow ; Florence, who married Frank Lyman : Libbie, who is 
Mrs. Wells Miller ; John and Freddie, boys at home. 

Only a few steps further west and we come ujion the house built by 
Eobert Jeffers many years ago. In fact, erected in 1818, it may be doubted 
whether there is an older dwelling house in Eose. The barn, near, was 
built in 1823. Exteriorly the house stands very much as it was when put 
up, though I presume its red paint dates from a later period. A knock at 
the door secures admission at the hands of Mrs. Dodds, now an aged lady, 
but still the good Samaritan, in that she is caring for a great grandchild. 



186 ROSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 

whose mother is very ill at her home in the Valley. Between the pranks 
of the child and my questions I feared I might drive all memory from her 
mind ; but she survived and managed to tell me a very interesting story of 
what was an early home in the wilderness. 

Robert Jeffers, with his brother, Nathan, came to this section from 
Johnstown, Fulton county, in 1S13. His location was in a heavily wooded 
wilderness. Xo framed nor any other kind of a house was anywhere near. 
His own log structure was constructed a little further west, in the valley, 
doubtless on account of the spring near. Convenience with reference to 
water usually determined the site of the pioneer home. His wife was 
Christiana Foote. Like many of the early comers, he died comparatively 
young, in 18-44, his wife surviving till 1858. The labor and ailments inci- 
dent to building up a new country, made havoc in the ranks of men who 
otherwise would have lived to be octogenarians. Both of these worthy 
people were buried in the private cemetery on the north and south road, 
next west. They reared a numerous progeny, and the names are as fol- 
lows : William, who married Phcebe Wiley, and for a time lived where 
James Weeks is now, and then went to Wisconsin ; Betsey married George 
Fisher, who once lived on the corner where George Woi-den is, but long 
since went to Michigan ; John took Lydia Way, a neighbor's daughter, for 
his wife, and, after living for a time on the Samuel Garlick, or Jared Chad- 
dock farm, went to Wisconsin ; Samuel married Harriet Eobinson, and, 
like others of his kin, went to Wisconsin ; Esther became the wife of John 
Drown, now of Huron — she once lived near Barnes'; Xancy, after the 
death of her husband, Alauson Pease, went to Wisconsin ; Susan was Mrs. 
Joseph Waring, and died in town, while he went west; Hannah married 
William Dodds, from Lyons ; James married Hannah Rhinehart, and went 
to Iowa ; Lawson, an invalid, still lives on the old farm and in the old 
house with his sister, Mrs. Dodds. (Has since died.) William Dodds 
died September 29th, 1888, aged seventy- five years and one month. He 
had built a house in the Valley. His family, too, was a numerous one, 
consisting of Polly, who is Mrs. William H. Thomas, of the Valley, well 
known for her zeal in religious matters, being a member of the Free Meth- 
odist Church ; Christiana, who is the wife of Jackson Valentine, also of 
the Valley ; William Henry, who married, first, Melissa Fosmire, and, 
second, Louisa Stack ; he once lived south of the Weeks place, but long 
since went to Michigan. Of his children Hattie married Ira Lamb, of 
Detroit ; William works for " Bill " Griswold, in the Valley, and Alber- 
tine is the wife of Orrin Carpenter, who lives on the Glen farm. James 
Jeffers Dodds, the youngest son of William and Hannah, has already been 
noted. Just a little northwest of the old Jeffers home, a small house has 
long stood, being a sort of receptacle for farm tools. This was once the 
home of John Jeffers, but during the past summer it was moved to a less 



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sightly locality. It should be stated that Alanson Pease, a Jeffers sou-in- 
law, found a last resting place in the family burial ground. Mrs. Dodds' 
recollections of olden times are very clear and accurate, and she brings up 
from the misty past many an interesting relic. She recalls the taking of a 
pig from his sty by a predatory bear, only a little south of her girlhood 
home, and her brother, John, with one of the Clappers, captured a wolf in 
a trap, and received the government bounty for his scalp. 

Again we go west, and after crossing a narrow valley, begin the ascent 
of the last range of hills in the town. Xear the summit we reach the cross 
roads, on whose northeast corner stands the house of George Worden. A 
well-laden peach tree at the corner of the house told of protection from the 
north wind, of the warmth of a south exposure, and was a reminder of the 
days when peaches were as constant a crop as potatoes, perhaps even more 
so. The house itself dates back to the days of George Fisher, whose wife 
was Betsey Jeffers. He displayed excellent judgment in locating his 
house, and I hope his Michigan home was half as pleasant. Fisher sold 
to George Lapham, who was the first husband of Elizabeth Worden, an 
aunt of the present owner. To him succeeded his brother-in-law, Con- 
stantine Worden. After the latter came his son, George, who, by the way, 
was born in the house. George Worden has been named already in Dis- 
trict No. 10 sketches as the husband of Leland Johnson's daughter, Edna. 
They have two children — John and Irene — who prove efficient helps in the 
house and on the farm. The parents are active members of the Eose 
Methodist Church. Constantine Worden, who lived here for many years, 
was reared south of the James Weeks home. He married Phcebe Ann 
Vandercook, now deceased. Their children were : Sarah, who married 
Allen Eobinson, of Huron ; George Leonard married Maggie Weeks, and 
lives east of North Eose ; and William, who is north of Wayne Centre. 
There are sixty acres in the farm. 

If we take our way to the north we shall soon finish this part of our dis- 
trict. There is a very steep hill to descend, and we shall need a firm 
trust in Providence as well as a strong part of the harness on which, it 
may be remembered, the old lady laid so much stress, and the breaking of 
which destroyed all hopes of salvation. At the time of my visit the road 
was much used by those who sought the blackberry said to grow in these 
parts in great abundance. The road itself was laid out many years ago, 
and is called the State road. Had it been continued directly to the north, 
it would have gone very near the house of James Osborne, in District No. 
10 ; but fortunately for him it was stopped just at the woods, and though 
one may go through now, it is not a traveled thoroughfare. Unless after 
berries, or to call on one of the two families living here, there is no reason 
why one should risk the going down and climbing back. A trifle north of 
the foot of the hill, on the west side, is the humble habitation of William 



188 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 

Lumbert, who came to these parts from Cayuga county. His family lives 
in two houses, not because his children are so numerous, though he has 
several, but because the buildings are so small. (Mr. Lumbert was killed 
by his son, George, Feb. 16, 1891. For this crime the son was sentenced 
to life imprisonment.) 

Somewhere along these parts, but just where is not clearly placed, an 
old map locates J. Jenks. Possibly the name is connected with the George 
Worden place. 

Some years ago Peter Hilts, of the Valley, bought seventy-four acres of 
land in this then wilderness, of Wallace St. John, long known as a Rose 
and Clyde school-master. There was a small house, which now serves as 
one of the farm buildings, a much better house having taken its place. 
Mr. H. came originally from Boonville, Oneida county, and for some time 
worked for E. N. Thomas, in the Valley. He also served in the army dur- 
ing the Rebellion, in Company H, of the Ninth. His wife is Catherine 
Stickles. Their children are Frank ; John, who married Jennie Andrews, 
of Rose ; Louis and Mary. All of these are at home, though a new house 
is going up for John a little south of opposite. (John and Jennie H. have 
now two children, Earl and Charles. ) In a little shanty near, an old-fash- 
ioned occupation is in progress, viz., the making of shingles with a draw 
shave out of good straight hemlock, and when John gets them laid on his 
roof, he need give himself no uneasiness as to leaks for the rest of his life, 
for they will outlast any number of the later sawed variety. This abode 
of Peter Hilts is on the east side of the i-oad and i-ather close to the woods, 
and is quite suggestive of mosquitoes in such seasons as that of 1SS9. 
Back of it are numerous small wood lots, owned by different parties, but 
all affording many blackberries. For several years William Lumbert 
lived in a log house nearly opposite. The sound of a gun in the neighbor- 
ing woods recalled the days when the sportsman could frequently bring 
home, for his pains, as many black and gray squirrels as he could com- 
fortably carry ; but all that is past. The big fellows have gone. Only 
chattering red ones remain. Pigeons, too, that were so common, have 
flown before the encroachments of civilization. 

We must go back to the cross roads and continuing towards the south, 
will call first on James Weeks. His location is an old one for these i>arts, 
and the outlook is grand. Nothing but the final range of Rose hills hides 
Butler from view, while, north and south, we may look to Huron and 
Galen. The view from the front porch of this house is unrivaled in this 
vicinity. Mr Weeks is at home, impaired vision rendering long walks 
from his fireside impossible. He finds his way to the nearest neighbor, 
Riggs, on the northeast, but returning he is near his home. Though the 
outward world is fading, he sees plainly the events and scenes of long ago, 
and pleasantly recounts to me some of the incidents of his earlier days. 



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He is a native of Columbia county, and came to Wayne county fifty years 
since. At one time lie owned the Dorman Munsell place in District 'So. 9, 
then he owned north of Shears' corners, on the west side of the road. 
Next he lived on the Hamelink place, south of his present home. Finally 
he bought of Constantine Word en twenty- five acres, and of Samuel Way 
fifty, and settled where he now is. Of his family that came up from 
Columbia county, one brother, Eufus, has already been mentioned in the 
account of District Xo. 3, he having been killed in the raising of a liberty 
pole. Mr. Weeks' wife was Phcebe Waterbury, a sister of the late John 
D. Waterbury, of District No. 3. Their children are : Nathaniel, who 
made Eliza Griswold his wife, and went to Michigan ; John married Helen 
Swift, and lives in the Valley ; Stephen found a wife in Margaret Grinnell, 
of Galen, and a home south of the Valley ; Julia is Mrs. William Griswold, 
of the Valley; Mary is Mrs. William Benjamin, and lives south of Clyde ; 
Delia is Mrs. Stephen Miller, now in Iowa ; while the youngest, Sarah, 
married Alonzo Case, from Sodus, and they, living on the old place, make 
a comfortable home for the aged parents. James Weeks has long been a 
stalwart, reliable citizen, not jirominent in politics, yet always ready to 
act as he thought right. In religious matters his leanings are toward the 
Baptist Church, though the Cases are Methodists. His grandfather, it is 
worth the while to state, died in his 100th year, and voted for Washington 
and Lincoln. (Mr. W. died June 8, 1892; Mrs. W. two years before.) 
The present Weeks house was built by a Jeffers. Nathan, a brother of 
Eobert, came to Rose early, and, in this town and in Lyons, reared a very 
large family. His first wife was Lucy Vandercook, and their offspring- 
were: Sally, who became Mrs. Samuel Boyce, of Rose; Betsey or Elizaljeth, 
who married, first, Lorenzo Griswold, and, second, Franklin Finch, 
both of Rose ; Mary Ann, the wife of Stephen Boyce of Rose ; Lydia, 
who married A. Ira Blynn, once of Rose (Balsamville), but now 
in Michigan, and who had sons, George and Addison ; Eleanor, as 
Mrs. John Burt, once lived in the house north of George Jeffers', now 
his property, but both went to Michigan and both are dead ; Julia married 
Adam McMillen, of Lyons ; Daniel, who made Malinda Myers his wife, 
went to Michigan and died ; Cornelius, who also went to the Wolverine 
State and there died ; Robert, of the Valley, who married, first, Marie Win- 
chell, and, second, Sarah Holbrook ; Nathan, Jr., married Lydia Ann 
Winchell and lived where George Jeffers is now ; he died in 1852, and his 
children are : Jane, who married Daniel Foster ; Ovid, in Galen ; Daniel 
and Lydia. Nathan Jeffers' first wife died in 1837, in her forty-seventh 
year, having borne him ten children. His second wife was Sarah Dunman, 
and their children are : John, already encountered near the home of Abner 
Osborn, at the eastern end of the district ; Janette and Jane, twins — the 
first being Mrs. William Deady, of Lyons, and the mother of six children ; 



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the second, Mrs. Hudson E. Wood, of the Valley ; Charles, at home with 
his mother in the Valley ; George, already met in the northern part of the 
district, and Laura, at home. Two children, James and Lucy, died in 
infancy. Mr. Jeffers himself passed away in 1854, in his sixty-fourth year. 
This is the largest family yet met in Rose. There were eighteen children, 
a number never met nowadays, except among the extremely prolific 
Canadian French. Had all these children produced as many children as 
their parents did, and there had been no western vent for this increase of 
population, this part of the town would have merited in an increased de- 
gree its name of Jeffers neighborhood. Mr. J. did not dwell uninterrupt- 
edly in Eose, but some part of his life was passed in Lyons on the McMil- 
len place, but he returned to end his days where his son George now is. 

Just below Mr. Weeks' home is a new house, erected by Alonzo Case, 
but used by him now as a tenant house. This marks the site of the first 
Worden house, where Alonzo Worden dwelt for many years. He, too, 
came from Dutchess county and died there, years since, at the age of ninety- 
one. His children were : Constantine ; Louisa, the wife of William Glen, 
of Lyons; Elizabeth, who married first, George Lapham and second, 
George Porter, now in Waterloo ; Delia, who is Mrs. Joseph Shaw of South 
Sodus; Martha, wife of James Colborn of the Valley, and John V., who 
married Caroline Hughson and lives south of Clyde. On this spot Nathan 
Jeffers first lived. 

A little south of opposite is a private cemetery, where very many of 
the early settlers were buried. It is in even a worse condition than some 
of those in other parts of the town ; for there are no headstones, with 
possibly two exceptions, those of Benjamin Way and his wife, but their 
inscriptions are illegible. Could I get all the history that the occupants 
of these graves might impart, my Eose rambles would be much more 
complete than I can ever expect to make them. 

Our southern limit is reached when we come to the next place, where 
dwells Derrick Hamelink, obviously of German extraction, but who came 
to Eose from Sodus. His sister Emma keeps his house, while their 
mother is a frequent visitor. He is an active member of the Eose Baptist 
Church. In reverse order the dwellers here have been E. Eooke, an Eng- 
lishman, now in Lyons, James Weeks, Eobert Foster and Harry Clapper. 
This is the old Clapper site, and here, many years ago, Jacob C. settled. 
He had nine children, at least, but of them I know very little, only one of 
the name, Henry Ward C, who married Anginette Munsell, being still in 
Eose. The oldest son was Jacob ; then followed Harry, who married 
Sarah Caroline Van Amburg of District No. 10 ; David, who married 
Mary Stewart; George ; Ann ; Eliza, who became Mrs. John Van Amburg ; 
Clarissa, who married Henry Dunham ; Martha, who married Abraham 
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We are not through with this exceedingly irregularly shaped district yet, 
for coming through Worden's corners, we must climbalittle higherto reach 
the sightly abode of the Eiggs family. It is the old home of the Ways. 
Benjamin Way was one of the earliest settlers, and Dr. Eichard Yalen- 
tine's first professional visit was made at this early home. The house 
now standing dates from this pioneer. Both he and his wife are lying in 
the neglected cemetery south of the corners. They had children — Lydia, 
who became the wife of John Jeffers, and went west ; Truman, who died 
at the age of fifteen years ; Samuel : Harley, and Valentine, who enlisted 
in the Mexican War and was killed. Harley Way, who succeeded his father 
here, married Betsey, a half sister of Jesse Lyman. Their children were : 
David, who lost his life as a soldier during the Eebellion. He was one of 
those captured, with the writer, at Monocacy, July 9th, 1S61, and died in 
Danville, Va., in the season following ; Elizabeth W., who married Harvey 
Perkins of Wayne Centre ; Caroline, who was the first wife of William 
Desmond of District No. 5, and Mary Ann, who married a Preston, went 
west and died. To Harley Way, on this farm, succeeded William Eiggs, 
who was born in Lyons and came to Eose in 1866, as we have already 
seen in treating the extreme western part of District No. 10. His family 
was there discussed, and now we find him living with his son, James, who 
married Sarah E. Andrews of the north part of the town. The latter has 
three children — Anna, May and Ida. True to his rearing and habits, Mr. 
Eiggs has a small blacksmith shop near. Across the way we can trace 
the path made by James Weeks, as he travels to and from his home. The 
outlook from this point is extensive in every direction. 

There is one remove further, and under the hill is the house built 
long since by Samuel Way. His first wife was Emma, a sister of Eobert 
Foster, and his second, a widow, Mrs. Woolley. He had children — Emma, 
who married William Blakesley : Julia, who married a Dennis of Wayne 
Centre, and a son, whose name I can not give. Some years since he sold 
to James Weeks, went to Michigan and died there. Mr. Weeks now rents 
the house. Here ends the district ; a large one in area, but not so populous 
as formerly. The next step would be into the Wayne Centre district. 

DISTEICT No. S— "Geiswold's." 

Jamiari/ 1 — Janvari/ 29, 1S91. 

The southern boundary of this district is the line between Rose and Galen. 
It lies directly south of "Jeffers," and its school-house is on the same 
north and south road and not a mile away. It is not a little interesting to 
note that this same road has, at its several cross roads, not less than four 
school-houses, viz. : Griswold's, Jeffers', Covell's and the one at Glen- 



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mark. In the district are some of the very best farms in the town, and as 
a rule, the spirit of thrift appears. There are several roads and our route 
will necessitate some backward tracks. 

In the county atlas of 1874, this district is put down as including a part 
of Eugene Hickok's farm and E. N. Jeffers' place, but I am told that this 
is wrong. At any rate, both places are now in the Valley precinct. 
Accordingly, to enter " Griswold's,'' we will take the first turn to the left 
after passing the home of Eugene H., on the road running west from 
Fredendall's store. 

The first abode is on the west side of the road, and it is the home of 
James CuUen, a brother of the Cullen who was till his death on the old 
Fuller farm west of the Valley. Mr. C. is from the county of Waterford, 
Ireland, and he still cherishes the utmost fondness for the " auld sod." "I 
was born there and I hope to die there," were his words in reference to the 
place of his nativity. So strong is the hold that childish associations have 
upon all of us. " Beautiful for situation " has been the burden of many an 
emigrant's song ever since the days of the psalmist, as his mind reverts to 
the hills and valleys where, erstwhile, his childish feet essayed to walk ; 
where they ran the free course of childhood ; where, in later years, he told 
the tale of love, true the world over, to willing ears, and where, perchance, 
his sight was gladdened by the coming of his children. Switzers are not 
the only ones to suffer from nostalgia. The very woes of Ireland have 
made her doubly dear to her absent sons and daughters. James Cullen 
married Mary Murray, and their children are Albert, Anna, Joanna, 
Marelena and Nellie. He bought his place of George Beam, a brother of 
Fred, of District No. 11, and he in turn took from the estate of C. G. 
Burton. Eeam went to Eastou, Maryland. Burton was a Protestant 
Methodist minister, who never lived on the place. He bought of Johnson 
Wiley, who had married a Jeffers, and who finally went to Wisconsin. He 
took from John Jeffers, who also went to Wisconsin. The house dates 
from the Jeffers ownership, though he never lived in it. Before Mr. 
Jeffers, was William Dodds, who owned in connection with his farm just 
south of this. As for tenants and squatters, the place has had fully its 
share, and time would not suffice to name all those who at times have 
called the farm home. 

On the other side of the road and a little south may be seen the home of 
Ira Hart. He is a son of Clinton H., once of District No. 10, but now in 
the northwestern part of Eose. Mr. Hart married early and he has a fine 
growing family. He and his brother, Marion, just south, do not intend 
that humanity shall become disheartened through any fault of theirs. His 
wife is Cornelia Cushman from Oneida county, and they have had six 
children. Susan, the oldest, is dead. Addie is the wife of William Adsit; 
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of S..C. Hart, and came into his possession after the death of Captain (1) 
Alexander Eeady. This man was in his day one of the town notables. 
His title came from his claiming to have been captain of snndry vessels at 
various times. During the War interested parties colored his hair and 
managed to enlist him into the Ninth Heavy Artillery. While on guard 
one day in the south, a native, noticing his white hair (for the coloring 
matter had worn off), said : " Ain't you a pretty old man for a soldier ? " 
" Yes," is the Ready answer. " I have served in three wars. I was in 
the Mexican War and in the War of 1812. Oh, I know how to soldier." 
During his life Rose never suffered for want of Munchausen stories. Before 
him was James Watson, and his predecessor was Stephen Boyce, the 
husband of Mary Ann Jeffers. a daughter of the first Nathan. The family, 
afterward went to the west. 

This road of ours must have been started with no definite ending in 
view, for it comes to an abrupt stand at the north end of one of the drift 
hills for which the town is noted. The hill will not move, the road clearly 
cannot climb it, so the thoroughfare has to yield, and it makes a quick 
turn to the right and goes around, thereby making in the second angle a 
fine location for a homestead long occupied by a succession of good people. 
Today the dwellers are Marion Hart and family. A portion of the latter 
were helping him unload hay when I called in my neighborhood rambles. 
He, too, is a son of S. C. Hart, in whose name the place is held. Marion 
married some years since Saliua Cushman, a sister of his brother's wife, 
and they have numerous children. They are George H., Mary Ann, 
Clinton M., Ida J., Alice E., Nellie M., John L. and Rose N. Here is a 
good example for other Rose people to emulate. These little folks form no 
inconsiderable part of the Rose Baptist Sunday school. Mr. Hart came to 
this farm in 1875. There are in it ninety-seven acres, seventeen of them 
only being on the west side of the road. This for years was known as the 
William Dodds place ; for here Robert Jeffers' son-in-law lived and reared 
his family. His children were named in the article on District No. 11. 
Mr. Dodds built this house. The most of the hill farm was bought of 
John Drown, late of Huron. Parts, however, were bought of Alansou 
Pease and of William Burt. 

Years ago, at the base of the hill, to the northeast, a log house stood, 
and in it lived Robert Boyce. Further along on the north side, was another 
log house, where dwelt Emory Boyce. In this first structure an aged Mrs. 
Winchell died, as did also the first wife of John Drown. Mr. Drown, at 
nearly ninety years of age, till recently living west of Sheldon's corners in 
Huron, was a native of Parsonsfield, Maine, then a part of Massachusetts, 
having come when thirteen years old, with his father, also John, to these 
parts, and stopped first on the extreme west part of the town — now 
Mallery's. Taking the road on the west as one line and running south 
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below George Milem's, and then on the east, almost to the Sodus 6anal, 
Mr. Drown had two hundred and thirty-seven acres. He cleared away the 
trees from the summit of the hill and there built his house, just as high up 
as possible ; lest, I Suppose, what his name signifies might happen to him 
and his. His first wife was Esther Jeffers, a daughter of the first Robert ; 
his second, Charlotte Boyce, and his third, still living, widow Mary Ann 
Whipple. It must have been a wearisome life on the top of this hill, but 
what a prospect the family had ! The water for family use had to be 
brought from the spring, still seen just south of the entrance to the Milem 
place. Naturally, Mrs. D. would occasionally object to the labor necessary 
to keep the kitchen running. Whereupon her rather easy-going husband 
, would say : " Well, come right out here and show me where you want the 
weli." She would go and tell him, and that is as far as the enterprise 
ever went. Their first child, Maria, is Mrs. Watson Chaddock of Huron ; 
the second became Mrs. Dudley Boyce, formerly of this town ; John A., 
now of Rose, has been twice married, first to Hannah S. Van Horn, a 
daughter of Matthias and his wife, Roxana 'Winchell, and second, to Mrs. 
Louisa (Trask) Sedgwick, but he will be met later in the Valley ; Sanford 
married first, Emily, a daughter of the late Gowan Riggs of Huron, and 
second, Artelissa Sedore, a sister of the late Mrs. Enos Pimm. She, too, 
is dead. The next child, Hester Ann, married Stephen Delamatter, and is 
in Michigan ; Thomas married Jennie Powers, and died in a New York 
hospital during the War, being a soldier ; Napoleon B. married Martha 
Harper of Galen, and died in Huron ; Jane is Mrs. Joseph Thorp of 
Huron ; Rosette married James Slocum, and moved to Kansas. By his 
second wife, Mr. Drown is the father of Madison, who married in Kansas. 
By his third wife he had Huklah, who is Mrs. Lafayette Legg, of the 
Valley, and Cornelia, who became Mrs. Stephen Brower. On leaving this 
sightly location, Mr. Drown sold the lower part of his farm to Robert N. 
Jeffers, and the north portion to William Dodds. Long since, all evidence 
of the homestead disappeared, save possibly a clump of trees, and were 
it not for such mousing recoi-ds as these, in a few years it would be difficult 
to make any one believe that the hill-top was ever the home of industrious 
parents and prattling children. Mr. Drown died November 2d, 1890, at 
the home of his son, John A., in the Valley. 

Nextwe skirt along the base of the hill, having fertile fields and orchards 
at our right, and the steep hill-side toward the east. When we get to the 
first west road, we must keep well up lest we go down the descent, whether 
we will or not. Soon the home of George Milem appears, perched on the 
ridge of the hill that has now sloped to an accessible altitude. Nevertheless, 
our horse will have to put forth extra strength as he pulls us up the road 
cut through the drift gravel of which the hill consists. Reaching the house, 
Mr. Milem is found jiutting together a new harvester, and data are 



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imparted as he keeps at his task, for the impending wheat harvest will not 
admit of any delay. His farm has one hundred and thirty-six acres, fifty 
of them being- in the old Stokes lot, and well back in the level swamp land 
eastward. This lot was once the property of Captain Stokes of glass 
factory fame in Clyde, and Walter Harper also owned it once. In former 
days there were several habitations upon it. The remaining portion he 
obtained from E. M. Jeffers and William Gillett. Mr. Jeffers bought of 
John Drown and Eobert Vandercook, and they of Garrett Y. Lansing. 
This must carry the line pretty near to the first owners. The house is on 
what was the Jeffers portion, and Mr. Milem has enlarged and improved 
it considerably. The Milems are of English origin. The first, William, 
and Thirza Sizer, his wife, came from Norfolkshire, England, to this town 
in 1851, and located just west of the head of this road, where Prank Knapp 
is now. Mrs. Milem died in 1856 and is buried in the Eose cemetery. 
Their children were Christopher, who is in East Portland, Oregon ; Sizer 
Ann, who married Eobert Hunter, and lives in Lyons, and George, our 
resident. Mr. Milem, Sr., went to Ohio in 1866, and is now living in 
Fowlerville. George M. was a good soldier during the Eebellion, serving 
in Company F, Ninty-eighth New York Volunteers, and putting in more 
than four years of service. He married Christina Lang of Galen, who bore 
him nine children, as follows : Thirza M., George H., Hester A.., William 
B., Minnie M.. Elizabeth C, Philip L., Mary E. and Carrie I. This is one 
of the most encouraging families in Eose. , Would that there were more 
like him. Mrs. Milem died in 1887, in her fortieth year, and till recently 
the oldest daughter did the honors of the household. The boys are helps 
upon the farm. Mr. Milem is a Free Methodist in religion and a Prohibi- 
tionist in politics. " And why shouldn't I be f " he says, " when I have 
all these boys and girls growing up to be endangered by the rum traffic. 
I'm down on that all the time." I am pretty much of his sentiments 
myself. It is impossible to overestimate the danger that alcohol is sub- 
jecting us to. In 1890, August 12th, Mr. Milem was married to Miss Julia 
Sedore of Eose. 

South of Mr. Milem's, under the hill, is a fine, unfailing spring, a source 
of comfort to the stock. Xear the road and close to the lane leading up to 
the house is another one carefully boarded up. Still further along is laud 
belonging to Alonzo Snow of the Valley road, whose possessions extend 
from road to road. 

On the west side is the home of Eugene Converse. The house is consider- 
ably south of opposite to Mr. Milem's, and is below the site of the house 
which once stood in the names of McConnell and Gillett, and in which one 
Converse killed his wife, several years since, while laboring under mania 
a po/ii, a tragedy liable to be acted wherever rum may be found. A number 
of trees still mark the location of the first structure. Mr. Converse has 



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just put up a new barn, and with his growing boys, will doubtless make- 
his farm one of the very best. There are fifty acres in it, and the lads are 
anxious to help. The place was bought of John H. Barnes, and as already 
intimated, must have been in the hands of others. The house is the one 
that Milo Lyman once lived in, and which he gave up when he built his 
new one. Mr. L. says : "I spent seven hundred dollars in getting the old 
house in shape, and in fixing up the cellar, and then it didn't suit me, so I 
just sold it for less than I spent in repairs, and started anew." It was 
moved down here and makes a very comfortable home for Mr. C. and his 
family. He is a native of Erie county, but much of his youth was passed 
in the Valley. His wife is Anna Harper, a daughter of Almon Harper, 
and their children are Edith M., John D., Ernest E., Arthur J., Flora D., 
and Daniel E. The family are communicants of the Eose Baptist Church. 
Mr. C. has been here seven years. 

Just below, and on the west side, is the home of Mrs. O'Donald, widow 
of Patrick. Her children are Joanna, Patrick and James. The belonging, 
a small one, was bought of H. W. Levanway, and Mr. O'Donald built the 
house. He once had a log house just under the hill as we turn west to go 
toward Milo Lyman's. 

Still further along, and the last place in the town, situated well back 
from the street, lives the Pultz family. They are Germans and came here 
from Lyons, buying the small place from Mr. Levanway. The children 
here are Emma, Ida and Daniel. They are Lutherans in religious belief. 

We must now return to the road leading west, and on the north side just 
beyond the turn is a red house which once abounded in active life. It is 
now the property of Milo Lyman, who has turned it into an evaporator. 
The house was built by Jacob Stack, a native of Strasburg, Germany, who 
lived and labored here for many a year. He was a cooper by trade, and 
worked long and faithfully in the Barnes shop, further west. His glebe 
was small, and he himself built the house. His wife was Eva Strang, a 
sister of Fred Beam's mother. We met Ream in District No. 11. Their 
children were many, and as follows : Jacob, who lives in Eochester ; Lana 
married James Lavender ; Louis lives with his mother south of Clyde ; 
Lizzie is the wife of John H. Barnes of the Valley ; Louisa married Wm. 
Dodds ; Katie married Byron Crandall of Eose ; Carrie, who is Mrs. 
Albert Williams of Clyde; Fred, deceased; George and Helen are at 
home with their mother. Mr. Stack died several years ago. 

The elegant home of Milo Lyman claims us next. This is on the north 
side of the road, and is the building erected after Mr. L. sold his old house 
to Eugene Converse. Painted a pure white, the structure is a landmark. If 
our call is in midsummer, we shall certainly find Mr. Lyman at work in the 
field. To reach him, we will follow a lane running back from the road, 
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•slope, thus having that very desirable arrangement in a country of hard 
winters, viz., underground sheds. Just a little west of front of the barns 
is the site of the first framed structure on the place, and close by was the 
log house. The well is there yet, and an avenue of cherry trees leads down 
to the present abode. Milo Lyman was born south of Ferguson's corners, 
and at the age of four years was bound out, till he should be twenty-one, 
to Adam Learn, who lived south of Lock Berlin. Mr. Lymau had very 
few advantages of the schools. His youth was one of toil, and when the 
expiration of his time came he had very little to start with save a vigorous 
body and fifty-eight dollars, a sum coming from the sale of a colt which 
Mr. L. had given hinj a few months before. Fortunately Mr. L. turned his 
face Roseward, and lived for a time in the family of the first John Barnes. 
Still more fortunate, he secured for his wife Mr. Barnes' daughter, 
Rebecca, who has been an invaluable helpmeet during all the years of his 
married life. Their home, before coming to this farm, was south of where 
the Wykoffs live now, and the place was reached by a lane from the road 
extending from the Valley to Wayne Centre. They came to this farm just 
after the War. They have had only one child, John W., who was a most 
promising young man, a graduate of the State Xormal School in Albany in 
1878. He had taught two years at Garrisons on the Hudson, when failing 
health conijielled his return to his father's house, where lie died May 28th, 
1881, at the early age of twenty-three years. With the hope that a change 
of occupation might improve his health, the fond father had bought for him 
a store at Lock Berlin, but the young man visited it only once. Life's 
burdens were scarcely assumed ere he laid them down. Early crowned, 
he left a desolate household to mourn his departure. The Lymans were of 
•Connecticut origin, no doubt connected remotely with those in the Lyman 
district, although I have not succeeded in establishing the relationship as 
yet. The father, Jesse, was long favorably known in Rose, having lived 
in that town many years. He was once on the old Finch place, near 
Oriswold's school-house. For some years he kept the light-house in Sodus, 
and finally died in the Valley in 1863, at the age of sixty-nine years, and 
was buried at Ferguson's corners. His first wife was Betsey Sedgwick, 
another excellent Connecticut name, who died in 1831, aged thirty-seven 
years. Their children were Henry, who was for some years a clerk for 
Eron Thomas in the Valley, and who died in 18.50 ; Lydia married Charles 
Crafts and went west; Angeline became Mrs. Dr. Robert Copp, of Canan- 
■daigua ; Milo, already noted; Philander S., who lives in Sodus, having 
kept the light-house there, as did his father before him, and John B., who 
lives in Michigan. Jesse Lyman was a shoemaker by trade. After the 
death of the first Mrs. L. he married the widow of Orrin Lackey. He had 
two half brothers, once residents in Rose— Thomas, who once lived near 
the Harley Way place under the hill, and afterward went west and died, 



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and Levi, west of Ephiaim Wilson's. The latter has a son, Jacob, now 
living in the Valley. A half sister of Jesse, Betsey, married Harley Way, 
while another married one of the Valley Crislers. The Lymans have long 
been staunch supporters of the Rose Methodist Episcopal Church. The 
farm includes one hundred and forty-seven acres. The major part of it 
was bought of John Barnes, first, after the War. The latter had purchased 
it from James Colborn, Jr., who had traded with John Vandercook. John 
V. had received it from his father, Michael. Michael Vandercook had 
taken in part from John Clapper, whose possession goes back to the land 
office. He built the first log house. Lyman built the iiresent Converse 
house in 1875. Afterward came the present house, whei'e it is to be hoped 
Mr. and Mrs. Lyman may take many years of comfort. Though they are 
childless, they have adopted George, son of Mrs. L.'s youngest brother, 
James, of Huron. What man has done, man may do. Xo man in our 
town had less to start with than had Milo Lyman. Few have done any 
better. Energy, honesty and perseverance, accompanied by a faithful, 
devoted and capable wife, have placed him in the forefront of our towns- 
men, a man to be admired and emulated. (Mrs. Lyman died May 18, 
1892. Mr. L. has rented his farm to Frank Mitchell, 1893.) 

Next west is the home of William H. Vandercook. This name, once so 
common in Eose, has pretty nearly disappeared. The farm occupied by 
Mr. V. is a part of the old Michael Vandercook property, but the original 
house was on the next road north. Somewhere on these acres Mr. V. has 
lived for more than fifty years. There are 108 acres in the farm, and the 
house, a fine brick one, is of Mr. Vandercook's building. Back of his 
barns, which are on the south side of the road, is an old log house, which 
was, in olden times, the abode of John Clapper. Mr. C. was a brother of 
Jacob, who once lived in the Jeffers neighborhood. It is a long time since 
this family lived here, and memory of them is not over vivid, but I find 
that there were five children — two daughters and three sous. These mar- 
ried as follows : Polly became the wife of Embury Finch, who once lived 
south of the old John Vandeicook farm, and is now a tobacconist in 
Auburn ; Sally married James Potter, a son of Godfrey, who once lived 
as tenant for Bockoven, ou the present John L. Finch place, west of the 
Valley ; George married Eliza Waring, daughter of Josejth and his wife, 
Susan ; Orrin and Abram both married daughters of this same Godfrey 
Potter, and all went to the all-absorbing west. Returning to Mr. Vander- 
cook, it is found that he married Helen E. Pitcher, a sister of John 
Barrett's wife. Their children were John W., who went to the Albany 
Normal School with Milo Lyman's son, and, like him, died, to human 
minds prematurely, at the early age of thirty years, in 1887, having mar- 
ried Mary E. Spaulding, of Schoharie county ; Emma Eliza died at the age 
of nine years ; Mary married Clarence Johnson, of Wolcott ; and Anna M., 



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■who is Mrs. Frank Fellows, of Lyons. Like all of the Vandercooks, Wil- 
liam H. is a Methodist. 

The next place, and still on the north side of the street, is the old John 
Barnes estate. It is one of the best and most prominent in this part of the 
town. The century was not very far along when Mr. B. bought out the 
improvements made by Merrill Pease, and himself settled at the land office 
for the farm. It was a favorite remark of the old gentleman that when he 
came into the town, he had only his wife and his axe, carrying the latter on 
his shoulder. He was Dutchess county born ; but, with his parents, came 
early in life to Galen. A brother was the father of Harvey Barnes, of 
Huron, indicated in our Xorth Rose articles. He married Mary Cowan, a 
sister of Mrs. Francis Osborn, the mother of James and Francis O., of the 
Covell district. His first stop in Eose was on the present Espenscheid 
place, a mile further west. Coming to this final site he lived for many 
years in a double log house, still marked by the large chimney, the latter 
having been used for many years in the coopering, for which this section 
was long noted. Finally he built the commodious farm house still stand- 
ing. After long and useful lives, the aged people passed away, and were 
buried at Ferguson's corners. They reared a numerous family, as follows : 
George, who married the widow of Arnold Rhea, and lived, till he went 
west, where Alvin Barnes resides. At one time he took up land near 
where Espenscheid is now. George Barnes died in Michigan, leaving one 
daughter. The oldest daughter, Mary, married William H. Allen, and 
lived for many years in the Valley, where Mr. A. was a tanner. They 
afterward moved to Coldwater, Michigan, where Mrs. Allen died Aug. 12, 
1888, leaving a son and daughter. Rebecca we have seen as Mrs. Milo 
Lyman. Alvin married Sarah Finch, and lives in this district. John H. 
Barnes married Elizabeth Stack, and lives soxxth of the Valley. He has 
only one child, Jessie May. Elijah married Mary S. Holiday, and lives at 
Fei-guson's coi-ners. Like his brotheis, be is a thorough and successful 
farmer. James mai-ried, first, Fanny Griswold, and second, Fanny E. 
Ferguson, of the corners. They live in Hui-on, and their children are 
Eveline, who is Mrs. James Gatchell, of that town ; Edwin B., at the Albany 
Noi-mal School, and George, who lives with his LTncle Lyman ; Margaret is 
Mrs. Philander Mitchell, whom we shall meet toward the end of the dis- 
ti-ict. Beside these theie were James, who died in infancy, and Sarah, 
who lived to be nine years old. John H. Barnes succeeded to this farm ; 
bxxt he pi-efers to live neax-er the Valley. His tenant now is James Laven- 
der, a native of Ireland, whose wife was Lana Stack. 

The last house to be encountex-ed befox-e reaching the corner is that of 
Harmon Van Amburg. Harmon has dwelt here many years. The 
original holding caxne from his father-in-law, William Griswold. He built 
the house himself. He is a native of Saratoga coxxnty — born in 1812 — 



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whence he came with his parents to Galen when he was quite small. By 
trade he is a carpenter and joiner. His wife was Emily, the first William 
Griswold's oldest daughter. She died in 1886. Their children were 
Deborah M., who died in infancy ; Rebecca A., who is with her father ; 
Sarah E., who died in Syracuse, and Ellen M., who married Wesley M. 
Abbott, of Otisco. She now resides in Syracuse. It is probable that 
under favorable circumstances, H. V. can beat any man in the town telling 
stories of the dim and misty past. He once knew all the dwellers west of 
the Valley and all of their antecedents. He was a brother of German Van 
Amburg, who formerly dwelt in the Covell district, in that part called 
Canada. (Mr. V. has since died.) 

Just opposite the Van Amburg home is a tenant house, belonging to 
Alvin Barnes, whose i^ossessions extend southward, and whose home we 
shall find on the west side of the road. It is a brick structure, and is in 
excellent keeping with the other farm houses of this locality. As already 
stated, Mr. Barnes married Sarah Pinch. They have two children — Matilda 
and Willard. I am told that this place was first held by one Green Plum. 
There is an absurdity in that name that strikes a hearer or reader at once. 
If it were sweet or ripe Plum, it would be different, but to be always Green 
is appalling. Well, Green finally sold out, or was forced off the farm 
and afterward became miMly insane, and thus died. To him succeeded 
Simeon Barrett, and his father-in-law, Ebenezer Pierce, that Eevolutionary 
veteran. These people were described in our "Covell" sketches. Then 
came Arnold K. Ehea, who died in 1852, leaving a widow and three chil- 
dren — John, Leroy and Chloe. All of them finally went west. The widow 
married George Barnes, and the latter managed the farm until John Rhea 
came of age, when he went to Michigan. John afterward sold to the 
present holder, Alvin Barnes, better known in Rose as "Alf." 

Still further south, and on the east side, is the farm house of James 
Deady ; but it is the long time home of John Vandercook, whose name is 
indissolubly linked with this locality, for he was the builder of the stately 
residence. Further back still, I find that this was the old Colborn farm, 
the place to which James Colborn, first, came when he left his early abode 
near North Rose. The youth of James Colborn was passed in the extreme 
western part of the town. His wife was Mary Waters, of Alloway, a 
sister of Mrs. John Q. Deady, of District No. 5. On this farm their mar- 
ried life was passed and here their family was reared. Beside several 
children who died in infancy, there were : Lydia, who became Mrs. Charles 
W. Griswold, of Palmyra ; Margaret, the wife of JohnVandercook ; James, 
whom we shall meet in the Valley ; Sarah, who also married a Griswold, 
William, and went to Missouri ; and William, who married Ephraim Wil- 
son's daughter, Caroline, and now lives in Wolcott, though for many years 
they were Rose dwellers. Another son, Jonathan, lost his life at the 



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siege of Fort Donelson, during the Eebellion. The Jater years of James 
Colborn's life were passed iu the Valley, where he died in 1871. He and 
his wife were life-long members of the Methodist Church. John Vander- 
cook, who married Margaret Colborn, succeeded to the old home and 
place, and to it added acres, till finally he had here about three hundred. 
In situation and commodious arrangements, Mr. Vandercook's place had 
no superior in the town, perhaps not in the county of Wayne. He had 
three children : Mary was educated in Lima, and afterward married 
Eobert Osborn, of Sheldrake, and is now in Indiana ; Frank went to Ful- 
ton to school for a time, and then went west, where he married ; Michael, 
named for his grandfather, married Alice Stanley, and he, too, is in Indiana. 
After the death of Mrs. Vandercook, a most capable and worthy woman, 
Mr. V. married again, this time a widow. It was only a short time there- 
after that he sold out and went west. At last accounts he was in 
California. (Died March 13, 1892, in Los Angeles, aged 72 years.) 
James Deady is a native of Eose, eastern part, Town district. He married 
Caroline Swift, of Sodus, and has passed the most of his life in Huron^ 
His farm there, now Wride's, was noted for its productiveness. It is 
claimed that his Huron orchard is the best in the county. He has three 
children : Charles S.; George L., who married Maggie Murray, of Clyde, 
and Willig J., who is a printer. He is now in New York, where he has 
worked on the Commevcial Advertiser. He is the boj" who started a paper 
in Savannah a year or two since. Mr. D., in buying, did not take all the 
Vandercook farm, retaining one hundred and seventy-seven and one-half 
acres. James Deady has boxed the political compass. For years he was 
one of the few thorough-going Greenbackers. He has probably talked 
more on that subject than any other man in Eose or Huron. No better 
view of farm and buildings can be had in Wayne county than that afforded 
of this place from the next road west. 

South of Mr. Deady's are farms belonging to William Glenn, of Lyons, 
and John Barnes, of the Valley. Both are rented to tenants. In the east 
place once lived a family of Finches, though not related to the other 
people of that name in Eose. The mother, a widow, came from West 
Dresden, Yates county. She had sons — George and Embury. The latter 
married Polly, daughter of John Clapper. He was lately a resident of 
Auburn. The place has changed hands a great many times. (In 1893 E. 
E. Legg is here. He married Dora Wright, from Canada. Their children 
are Ernest E., Ora and Mary. ) 

The last dweller on this road, before reaching the Galen line, is Henry 
W. Levanway. As the name indicates, Mr. L. is of French origin, his 
birthplace, Clinton county. He was sixteen years old when he came 
to the town of Macedon. He left home with five dollars in his possession, 
and became a resident of Wayne county with five cents left. After the 



202 ROSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 

various and usual vicissitudes of childhood, he became a citizen of Lock 
Berlin, whence he came to his present home in 1857. He bought of one 
of the Van Amburgs, back of whom was a Brink. The farm now held is 
not quite the same that he originally purchased. The part opposite, all 
save the carriage house, was first sold to Elijah Barnes, from whom it 
passed to a Bishop, whose widow, living just over the line, still owns. 
Her large barn is on the Eose side of the road. Much of the Levauway 
place lies in Galen, but there are still about 100 acres in Rose. It extends 
well back and once touched the next road east. On the extreme eastern 
IJart of the farm, Mr. L. is now arranging sheds or barns for hay. Mr. L. 
cultivates extensively the osier willows used in basket making. All the 
buildings on the place, he either built or considerably repaired. The barns 
when he came, were of log, and the house was very old. His wife is Cyn- 
thia, nee Curtis, of Galen, but born in Columbia county. They have had only 
two children, Alauson, who died in 1857, aged three years, and Edra, who 
is Mrs. E. E. Barnes of Clyde — the clothier whose extensive advertisments 
are seen all about this section. Mr. Levanway was one of thirteen children, 
nine boys and four girls, all of whom grew up. It may be safely said that 
here is another of the self-made men for whom this town is noted. 

Only a few steps south of the Levanway home, is found the road run- 
ning west. It is the very first, thus far encountered, which forms a part 
of the town line, this time between Eose and Galen. Turning around the 
fine barn of Mrs. Bishop, we ride with one wheel in Eose and one in Galen. 
The Winchells once dwelt in these parts, and in the olden times there were 
log houses hereabouts. To-day there is no house on the Eose side of the 
street, but on the Galen side, at the corner, farther west, is one of the 
houses belonging to Herman Grenell. Mr. G. was born in Galen, a mem- 
ber of that family formerly so prominent in that town, but now found only 
in the burial ground or in the West. He married Marian Greiner of Galen, 
and their children are: Eugene, living just north; Lydia, the wife of 
Edward Luftman, who is at the old home, and Ada, also at home. Mr. G. 
bought of Harvey Warren, thiry-seven years ago, though the place was 
once in the possession of John Barnes, the early comer, and Franklin 
Finch was also here very long ago. There are in the Barnes place 100 
acres. The buildings are of Mr Grenell' s erecting. Just north of the west 
side is a tenant house belonging to Mr. G. It should be stated that the 
home of the family is on the east side of the road, just after turning north. 

Going north, we shall find on the west side the 100 acre farm, once 
belonging to William Osborn, but now in the hands of Herman Grenell. 
His son, Eugene, who married Ida Glover, resides here. (They have one 
child, Florence.) Mr. William Osborn is a brother of James and Francis 
O. , living northwest of the Valley, in the Covell district. He married 
Euth Ann Foist of Galen, to whose father the place formerly belonged. 
After leaving this, he was in the Valley for a time, then went to the town 



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of Lyons, where he now lives, about two miles west of the village. He has 
but two children : Ida, who is Mrs. Vern Wilson of the Valley district, 
and Leona, at home. Mr. O. has long been a member of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church. 

The next stop is on the east side of the road, at the home of George 
H. Green, who was born in Onondaga county. His home for many years 
was in Wayne Centre. He came to this place in 1879. He married Eliza 
A. Turner, a daughter of Eoyal, who formerly lived here. Their children 
are : Lorani, who married Jacob Barkley of Sodus ; Fi-ancis, at home ; 
Sarah, married John McMillan of Lyons ; Charles, at home ; Ada, married 
J. W. McRorie of Wayne Centre. Mr. Green has been a cooper, also a 
carpenter and joiner. He repaired the house in which he lives. In the 
farm there are 34 acres. Eoyal Turner, whose home was here for many 
years, came from Vermont, where he married Betsey Cooper. Some of 
their children were grown up before his coming hither. He lived here 
about forty years, dying thirteen years since. Mrs. Turner, only recently 
deceased, lived to be nearly ninety years old. Of their eight children, in 
addition to Mrs. Green, there were Mrs. S. D. Wilson of Boston, Mass., C. 
Clark, EliasK., in New York, and Marcus in Eahway, N. J. Mr. Turner 
bought of one Hoag, and he of Daniel Jeffers. James Colboru, first, many 
years ago, erected a stave cuttiug factory on this place, probably the first 
one in the town. Among so many possessors it is nearly impossible to 
name all, and equally difficult to preserve the proper order. 

William H. Espenscheid is our next resident, and his home is on the 
west side. Though born in Huron, he is of German extraction, the first 
of this nationality to be encountered in this western part of Rose, but by 
no means the last. His father was from Hesse-Darmstadt and has children 
John, Helen, Derrick and William, whose wife is Mary A., daughter of 
Henry Steitler of the Wayne Centre district. There are ninety acres in 
the farm, and Mr. E's. father bought of Philander Mitchell, 2d, who took 
from Avery Marsh, now south of Clyde, and he purchased from a Foist. 
Though the Espenscheids have no children, they have most beautiful 
flowers, on the principle, I suppose, that one must love something. The 
useful blends with the ornamental in the garden, as beets and onions are 
crowded by double poppies and sweat peas. All the colors of the rainbow 
are found in this cheerful corner, just south of the house. This building 
must date from some one of the earlier occupants. The farm buildings 
are opposite. 

There is no tax on the admirable views that the hill-top affords, and 
the passing farmer may get what pleasure he can from the same, for air 
and views are about all he can now get free. 

A turn to the west leads down towards Lyons, and on the north side 
is the place where Joseph C. Crandall has lived for forty-four years. He 



204 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 

was born in Dutchess county, but his parents moved when he was small to 
Chenango county. Thence he came to these parts. His wife was Sarah 
Brown of Ferguson's corners, who died in 1887. Their children were : 
Hannah, now dead, who married John Marriott of the Valley ; Byron, who 
married Katie Stack, and holds the old place; Sarah, Mrs. Thomas Heifer 
of Newark ; three others died in one week in childhood from scarlet fever. 
A stone in the burial ground at Ferguson's tells the sad story. "When Mr. 
Crandall came hither, his log house was located quite a distance north of 
the place where he subsequently erected his dwelling. He bought of John 
"Wejgel, who had purchased of John Miller. He had taken from one Shad, 
or Chad, who bought of John Clapper, who must have bought from the 
office. There are fifty-six acres in the farm. Though eighty-two years 
old, I found Mr. C. at work in the wheat harvest, and ready to proclaim his 
unfaltering Democracy. Byron C, who is now at the head of affairs, and 
his wife have only one sou, Frank. 

Henry Lincks dwells nearly opposite. He is Brooklyn, N. Y., born, 
though his parents came from Alsace. His father, Henry, a furrier by 
trade, married Mary Simon, and they are now residents of Lyons. Henry 
L., Jr., who married Carrie Fox, a daughter of the man who long owned 
the place, came here in 1881. He has greatly improved the plant, having 
erected one of the best barns in town. Better times will be followed by a 
new house. (1893 — The house is built.) The site of the old building is 
readily discovered through the rank character of the grain growing over it. 
Louis Philip Fox lived here for many years, and here reared a family of 
six boys and six girls. His wife was Lena Horn and both were of German 
birth. In German the name is Fuchs. Both the parents lie in the Fergu- 
son's ground. The oldest sou, George, died in California; Lena married 
Cornelius Barton, now in Lyons ; Fred is in Woleott; Louis is in Lyons ; 
Siloma married Ovid Jeffers of Galen ; Carrie married Henry Liacks ; 
Louisa is Mrs. William Goetzman of Galen ; Charles married jMary Lincks ; 
Jennie is Mrs. John W. Stewart of Lyons ; William died at the age of 
nineteen years, and Charlotte died in childhood. The house antedates the 
Fox family. The farm has eighty-two and a half acres. 

On the same side of the street, but a few rods further west, is the 
holding of William Loryman, a native of Yorkshire, England. He once 
lived on the Knapp place, north of Philander Mitchell's, but has been here 
many years. His parents, William and Anna E., came to this country and 
died with him. William has never known the pleasures nor the vexations 
of matrimony, his sister Susan having been his housekeeper. He has 
thirty acres, which he bought of James Wraight, and the latter took from 
Samuel Wessels. An old log house back of Loryman' s abode indicates an 
«ra much older than Mr. L.'s days. 



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IS'early opposite lives Charles Fox, and his residence marks the 
western limit of the district. As already seen, he married Mary Lincks 
and they have a numerous progeny growing up. Their names are : Nelson 
C, Albert H., Mary E. and Godfrey E. There are fifty acres in the place. 
As owners or occupants before Mr. Fox, were Lampman, Fred Fox, 
George Fry, Jake Garvey and Henry Wirt. 

Returning to the north and south road, we shall soon reach the old 
home of the Havilands on the west side. As the place has for some years 
borne the name of Foster, it is necessary to state that Cornelius R. Foster 
married the widow Haviland and paid off the heirs of the estate. Mr. 
Foster is a native of Vermont and many years since married Harriet, a 
daughter of Jacob Clapper. In the sketch of the Jeffers neighborhood, 
he was found on the old Clapper site, now the home of Derrick Hamelink. 
His children were : Daniel, who married Jane, a daughter of Xathan 
Jeffers, and Annabel, who became Mrs. Fred Fox, and is now dead. 
Daniel's home is just below this place and he works the farm. His 
children are Chauncey, and Lydia, who is now the wife of Louis E. Stopfel 
of the " Covell " district. (Chauncey married September 27, 1893, Miss 
Mollie Ferguson.) An aged man, Mr. C. R. Foster, still is active and alert. 
Henry Haviland was a native of Dutchess county, but with his family 
went to Waterloo many years since. He there wedded Jerusha Pierson, 
of a family that had migrated from Long Island to that point. They came 
to Rose sixty-four years since. Their first log house was considerably 
further north, and in the growing corn it is easy to distinguish the old site 
through the luxuriance of the stalks. The deeper green of the field tells 
how nature reciprocates the gifts of other days. The family came with 
oxen and a team of horses, and experienced all the discomforts of the early 
pioneers. It is said that Mrs. H. once walked to Waterloo where her 
husband was at work, she being thoroughly homesick. The Havilands 
built all the buildings. To them were born six sons and as many daughters. 
Many of them, however, died very young, and on one stone in Ferguson's 
r read the name of seven children, ranging from the iufaut to a daughter of 
twelve years. The death of the latter, Katherine, was particularly distress- 
ing, since it was occasioned by the use of an opiate, she being ignorant of 
its effects. Those who survived were Daniel, who married Charity Dubois 
and went to Michigan. He there enlisted and died at Memphis during the 
War. He left three children, of whom Mary is the wife of Henry Jeffers ; 
Burton, who works for William H. Vandercook (he has since married 
Mary Paine of Huron); and Sarah, who became the wife of Louis Mar- 
steiner of Lock Berlin. Louis will be remembered as the little boy, once 
living in Stewart's district. The second son, Peleg, though he has been 
much from home, is now there helping to care for his mother. (D. 
February 19, 189.3.) Sarah is Mrs. George Duell of Marengo; Harriet, 



206 EOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 

deceased, was Mrs. William Mix of the Valley ; Jane, also dead, was the 
first wife of Charles Covell, and thereby the mother of Eose, wife of Frank 
Kellogg. Mr. Haviland died in 1857, and with him now are all his 
children, save two. Mrs. Haviland Foster is quite feeble from successive 
attacks of la grippe. (Mrs. F. died January 2d, 1801, aged about 86 
years. ) 

The road soon takes an abrupt turn to the east and stretches away 
towards Mitchell's hill. Originally it ran crookedly through the low land, 
past the old Haviland house, and thence easterly to the brow of the hill. 
Just before reaching the foot of the hill, we encounter the State road, com- 
ing down from the old Jeffers haunts, and we shall have to climb it a 
little way, till we find away back from the street the house now owned by 
John Smart, but which has had a great variety of possessors. Taking 
them in order, it is pretty safe to claim this as the original Ackerman 
home, for here David A. and his wife lived until his death, about 1821. 
The Ackermans were from Saratoga county. Mrs. A. was Margaret, 
daughter of Henry Clapper, and thereby sister of John and Jacob. Their 
children were : Lucinda, wife of Russell Winchell ; Louis, who lived in 
Victory; Henry C, who married D. A. Collins, a daughter of Stephen of 
District No. 10, and is in Huron ; Helon B., who married Lovina Winchell, 
and Cyrus, who wedded Mary Loughton and is in California. Mrs. A. 
afterward married John Winchell, and bore Sarah Jane, who became Mrs. 
James Van Amburg, and Lovina, who was twice married, first to Isaac 
O. Brewster, and second to Philo Miner. Mrs. Ackerman-Winchell died 
with her son Henry in 1876. The place was sold to Daniel Ackley, who 
built the house and who went west. To him succeeded the Englishman, 
William Loryman. A pine tree standing near serves as a landmark to the 
second William L., who lives in the western confines of the district. After 
him came Hiram Knapp, who was born in Sodus and married Sarah, a 
daughter of the first Philander Mitchell. The place of twenty-five acres 
passed from him to Mr. Smart. 

Retracing our steps to the east and west road, the hill is climbed, 
and we look out over the prospect that it has been the lot of the Mitchells 
to view for many a long year. No name in Rose annals has a more de- 
servedly conspicuous place than that of " 'Squire " Mitchell. For many 
years he was the justice of the peace who adjudicated for this section. 
Absolutely honest and trustworthy himself, his word was his bond, and 
his judgment was held in the highest esteem. He was born in Bridge- 
water, Vermont, and married first, Betsey Ann Andrews. They had four 
children : Mary Ann, who married, first, John Ferguson of Galen, and 
second, Nelson Griswold of this same district; Leonard, the oldest son, 
lived along a mile east on the valley road ; William married Jane Grenell 
of Galen ; they now live in Lyons ; Barnard married Sally Ann West- 




OLD RESIDENTS. 



John Barnks. Phil \ndek Mi rt hell. Ali'iiels Ciilli.ns. James Weeks. 

ToEi. N. I, EL. .SiiLoMfi.N Allen. Chaki.es Siiekmax. I,^MAN ],el. 

P;lias Shekmax. AVm. llii KiiK. Duiil ev Wade. C'iiesti-.k Ellinwdoii. 



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brook, and is a resident of Xorth Rose. The first Mrs. Mitchell died and 
was buried in the long-neglected Jeffers burial ground. His second wife 
was Sally Winchell of the numerous family described in theCovell district. 
Born in Egremont, Mass., May 3d, 1800, she was twenty years old when 
she came to Rose, or Galen. Her first son was Philander, Jr., who, having 
married Margaret Barnes, retains the old homestead. The second son, 
John N., was a victim of one of the rural sports long so popular in this 
town. He was in his seventeenth year, when September 1, 1849, he left 
his home for a night of cooning, and was brought home a corpse — a terrible 
blow to the fond mother. A log was to be rolled down a hill, all for fun, 
and the boy was caught by it and crushed. The first daughter, and Mrs. 
M.'s eldest child, Lucinda., is still at home, andwas the careful attendant of 
her aged mother until her death, which occurred Monday morning, Decem- 
ber 20, 1890, at the age of 90 years, seven mouths and twenty-six days. 
Sarah married Hiram Knapp ; Lovina is Mrs. Fred Ream of " Co veil's " 
district. " 'Squire " Mitchell took up his eighty acres at the Geneva Land 
oflice, and he repeatedly walked to that place to pay his interest. He 
taught school in the Valley, and daily walked backward and forth, attend- 
ing to home duties as well as to those of the school. The century was 
well in its teens when Mr. M. became a dweller in these parts. Orrin 
Lackey and his young family came with him. His first log house was 
considerably further north than the site of the i>resent structure. As in 
other cases, there is no trouble in locating the old house, for grass and 
grain here grow stoutest. His first framed structure was burned, and 
then came the brick house, so long a landmark from this hill-top. It 
was in 1870 that, caring for a young horse, he was kicked, and so killed, 
at the age of seventy-seven years. The Mitchells have long since been 
devoted members of the Rose Methodist Church. 

Philander Mitchell, second, who now maintains the credit of the name, 
lias two children — Darwin P. and Franklin. The former went to South 
Butler some years ago as the principal of the public school. Afterwards 
he bought an interest in a store, and has since then conducted a mercantile 
business in that place. He married Miss Jessie Clapp of South Butler. 
For a long time he has been the interesting correspondent from that place 
of the Clyde Times. The younger son, Frank, is a valuable adjunct to his 
father in the management of the farm. (In 189.3 on the Milo Lyman farm.) 

It is necessary now to descend one steep hill and to climb another, when 
we stand at the corners where the school-house is located, and on whose 
southwest angle is the house built by the first dweller from whom the dis- 
trict is called. The first William Griswold was a native of Saratoga 
county, but the name certainly betrays a Connecticut origin. He came 
hither directly from Victory. His wife was Rebecca Barnes, and, like 
him, was a native of Saratoga county. He here hewed out his home from 



208 ROSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 

the wilderness. The usual succession of ]o^ and framed houses followed 
and in them was reared his numerous family. His children were Xelson, 
whose home was just east of his father, on the Valley road ; next was 
Lewis, who passed his life in Lyons, and was a wire weaver ; Charles 
Wesley married Lydia Colborn, a neighbor's daughter, and is a farmer in 
Palmyra; William succeeded his father on the homestead, and his wife 
was Sarah Colborn (died in Starkville, Col., April 10, 1891), another 
daughter of the neighbor, and he finally went to Missouri. His children 
were Albert, William, Frank, Xelson, Mary and Anna. There were four 
daughters in the first Griswold group. Of these Emily became the wife of 
Harmon Van Amburg ; Lydia married Jacob Xorris, of Marion ; Ange- 
line, now dead, married Byron Bissell, of Syracuse ; Melissa married first, 
Elisha Parsons, of Clifton Springs, and second. Smith Sweezey, of Marion. 
The Griswolds were God-fearing people and worthy members of the Eose 
Methodist Church. The second William Griswold sold to Eobert N. 
Jeffers, who passed the place along to another William Griswold, a son of 
Lorenzo, of the Jeffers district, and from him the farm passed into the 
possession of the James Deady family. James' second son, George, now 
lives here — he and his wife and one child, Eva, to carry the name along. 

Immediately opposite, on the northwest angle, is the school-house. It 
is the third in order. The first was built of logs ; then came the old stone 
edifice, long noted in these parts, which, in turn, gave way to the present 
structure. The corners have been the scene of many excellent meetings. 

There is but one home north of the school-house, and this we shall find 
on the east side of the road. To this point, or near it, Orrin Lackey and 
Sarah, his wife, came from Vermont, fellow travelers of Philander Mitchell, 
in the small years of the century. His son-in-law, Amos S. Wyckoff, was 
subsequently near. Their children were Susan, who became Mrs. Wyckoff, 
to be met in the Valley district ; Lucy Ann, deceased ; Judd B., who mar- 
ried Martha Hurlbut, and who was mentioned in the Jeffers series ; Sanford 
married Sarah Ann Wiley, of Rose, and is now in Michigan ; Joseph, a 
soldier in the Mexican War, now dead ; Orrin W., who lives in Baltimore, 
and married there. The senior Lackey died in 1831, at the early age of 
forty years. His widow became the second wife of Jesse Lyman, who for 
some time resided on the place, which passed eventually to Franklin 
Finch. The latter was born in Westchester county, and had married 
Matilda Harding, a native of Massachusetts, before he came to this town. 
His advent was in 1830, when he located on the Grenell place, in the south 
part of the town. He brought the Lyman and Wyckoff houses together 
and built the house now standing. He had four children, all of whom, 
except Selah, the youngest, were born in Fishkill, on the Hudson. New- 
man and John will be found in the Wayne Centre district ; Sarah is the 
wife of Alvin Barnes, of this district, and Selah lives south of the Valley. 



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Though there is no evidence to substantiate the theory, there can be no 
doubt that this family is related to that east of the Clyde road. They 
came from the same portion of the state, and there is a marked family 
resemblance. The family has been connected with the Rose Methodist 
Episcopal Church for many years. The property is now in the hands of 
Alvin Barnes, and he has erected a very large and handsome barn across 
the road from the house. As his residence is further south, he has had 
tenants in this the old Finch homestead. 

Coming back to the cornei-s, we shall find on the south side of the road 
leading east, a tenant house, standing on the Deady estate. Just over the 
ridge of the hill is the long-time home of Nelson Griswold. This was a 
part of the original Griswold property, and here Nelson built his house 
and barns, and here he died in 1859. His wife was Mary Ann, daughter 
of Philander Mitchell, and he was her second husband. Their children 
were Fanny, who married James Barnes, now of Huron. Salinda, the 
next daughter of Nelson, is Mrs. Edgar C. Crane, of Bola, 111.; Edgar lives 
just east ; Philander married Sophia Soper, of Rose, and lives in Galen ; 
John W. married Delia Cole, of Lyons, and is with his mother on the 
farm. He has two children — Nellie and Ray. 

Again we must go up and down the hills, and descending a steep incline, 
we cross a fertile valley, and on the north side of the way, just at the foot 
of the next hill, Edgar Griswold has erected his home. Like many of the 
people in this vicinity, he keeps bees, and the air is full of busy hummers. 
His wife was Anna Hersey before marriage, and their children are Julia 
and Bessie. 

The next hill is very steep, one of the worst in the town. Beyond its 
summit, on the north side of the road, the relict of Leonard Mitchell has 
lived in widowhood for many a long year. Leonard, a son of the first 
Philander, married Mariette, a daughter of Michael Vandercook, and 
located here on a part of her father's farm. At one time there were 140 
acres in it, but now the number is ninety-five. He first built a framed 
house and then followed it with the commodious brick edifice still standing. 
Leonard Mitchell was one of the noteworthy Methodists of his day ; no one 
was more zealous than he. Even a short time before his death he had 
expressed to his wife his conviction that it was his duty to go west and 
preach. He died in 1865, after an illness of only four days : brain fever 
induced by a sudden cold. His children were Eliza, who is Mrs. George 
Jeffers, of District No. 11 ; Phoebe, who is the wife of Henry Tyndal, now 
at Iron Mountain, Mich, (a Presbyterian minister reared in Huron), and 
William A., who lives with his mother on the farm. Two children died 
unmarried, Frank in 1887, aged 30 years, and Sarah in 1886, aged 25 
years. William Mitchell, who now runs the farm, married Eliza York, of 

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Huron, and has one boy, Willie. (Wm. M. died April 22, 1893, aged 40 
years.) 

Down and up we go again, and at the right is a house fast being dis- 
mantled. It is the old home of the Vandercooks. Michael, the first of 
the name hereabouts, came from the eastern part of the state to Lyons 
first. He next went to Canandaigua, and thence came to Eose to the farm 
now held by John Finch, east of Wayne Centre. That place he traded 
with Samuel Bockoven, of Lock Berlin, for this location on the hill. His 
family was reared mainly on the Finch place. His wife was Mary Jeffers, 
a sister of Eobert, the first, and Xathan. The Vandercooks and Jeffers 
were singularly intermarried. Of six Vandercook brothers, three mar- 
ried Jefferses, and one sister became the first wife of Xathan J. Their 
children were Sally, who was Mrs. Peleg Randall, of Lyons ; Lydia was 
Mrs. David McDonell ; Cornelius, who died at the age of thirteen ; Eliza- 
beth was Mrs. Adam Fisher, of Clyde, whose only daughter, Sarah, after 
graduation at Lima (Genesee College), married George Barton, a dis- 
tinguished teacher of New Jersey ; John, whom we have encountered on 
the present Deady place : Marietta has just been passed as Mrs. Leonard 
Mitchell ; Phoebe, the wife of Constantine Worden, is only recently 
deceased ; William Henry was found in the earlier description of the dis- 
trict. The elder Vandercooks died here and the place now belongs to 
their youngest son, William H., who began his housekeeping here many 
years since. Long used as a tenant house, the structure shows the result 
of neglect, though the brick filling back of the clapboards indicates a dis- 
position once to make the house comfortable and enduring. The barns 
have gone and nothing works in good shape except the fine smoke house, 
apparently of recent making. It would seem that Samuel Bockoven was 
one of the first if not the very first owner of this property. At sundry 
times Eobert and Isaac Vandercook resided in Eose. They were sons of 
Henry V., who also had married a Jeffers. They went west long ago. 

Still journeying towaid the rising sun, we come to a modest house on 
the north side of the road, the home of Andrew Stickles. It was once 
the property of James Lavender who now lives on the old Barnes farm. I 
have understood that Mr. L. built the house. 

At this point a road leads north, coming out by John Blynn's. The 
only house near, or in it, is a small one on the east side, the home of 
Henry Knapp. Here, for some year's, lived the Dunham or Donahue 
family, the head of which was for so long a time one of the blacksmiths in 
the Valley. The first Milem was also here, long ago. 

Old inhabitants tell of a log house still further to the east, where dwelt 
Nelson Coleman ; then one Horn, and afterward the place was joined to 
the next, or Jeffers farm. Also a log house was on the southwest corner 
in earlier days, and iu it lived Benjamin Johnson. But these are names 
cinly. 



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DISTRICT NO. 12.— Wayne Centre. 

June 11—Juhj 9, 1801. 

This record of District No. 12 is very incomplete. The removal of the 
•first settlers and their children has left very little source of information. It 
is a most peculiarly shaped district, extending: from the southern line of the 
town to within less than one mile of the Huron border. It includes parts of 
both Lyons and Sodus ; but I shall confine myself strictly to our town of 
Eose. In this district we shall find many Germans, who seemed to have 
overflowed from Lyons eastward, and to have thus taken the places of the 
original settlers. To my inquiry as to the reason for this German influx, I 
was told that many years since, the father of the late Lieutenant Governor 
Dorsheimer located in Lyons. Xaturally others of his race came to a 
place where he, who had learned English, could interpret for them, and 
found homes near him. In time they spread out, and the Rose occupancy 
is the result. 

For a long distance this district has the dwellers on one road only. For 
our purposes it will be as well to enter from the south. To do so, we shall 
have to go west from Ferguson's corners till we reach this highway. The 
first house is on the west side of the road, and has long stood in the name 
of A. H. Mallery. "Captain" Almon H. Mallery was born iu Columbia 
county, though the family was of Connecticut origin. His father, Harvey 
M., who had married Emma Stone, came to this town more than fifty years 
ago, and the first home was on the next place north, the original farm 
being very large. This place, next to the Galen line, and for twenty years 
occupied by tenants, was bought of Mr. Nichols. "Capt." M. has been 
twice married. First to Adaliue Dunn, who bore him one son, Harvey, a 
resident of Lyons. His second wife before marriage was Mary Horubeck, 
born in Ontario county. Their children are James S., married and living 
in Bast Palmyra, and Emma, who is at home. The family many years 
since moved to Lyons, still retaining, however, the possessions here. The 
title by which Mr. Mallery is known is purely complimentary. When a 
lad, in Columbia county, he was the chief boy iu a party of twenty or 
more who trained with wooden weapons. The title was given him then 
and has clung to date. As be says, everybody but his mother called him 
" Captain." On an old map where we should expect the initials A. H., I 
find only C. The maker was obviously deceived. 

Valentine Goetzman is the owner of the next farm, though he does not 
at present reside there. He bought of William Espenscheid, who purchased 
from Oscar Mallery. Oscar Mallery mariied Anna Ferguson and had three 
children — Harrison, George and Sarah. He afterward went to Newark, 
and there died. There are one hundred acres in the farm, which is now in 



212 EOSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 

the care of Philip Humbert, who married Carrie Goetzman. Mr. G. is a 
German by birth, as is also his wife, who was Saloma Hoetzel. Their 
children are : William, who married Louise Fox, of the family to the 
northeast ; Mary, who became Mrs. Louis Fox, of the same family ; George 
married Carrie Einkel, and lives in Lyons ; Sarah, who luarried Philip 
Mindel ; Carrie, Mrs. Humbert, and Albert, who married Anna Stell, and 
is with his father. 

Before reaching the next dwelling, we shall pass on the east side a large 
farm belonging to the Mallerj- farm, for this almost surrounds the Goetz- 
man place. 

John Mjers, who planted his house on the west side of the road, 
purchased a lot of one and a half acres from "Capt." A. H. Mallery, and in 
1867 put up his buildings. Like most Germans, he manages to get the 
most possible from his glebe. He is a native of Baden, and his wife was 
Margaret Ohl. Aside from tilling his own lot, Mr. M. finds plenty of 
employment in helping his neighbors. They have had five children, all of 
whom have gone from home. They are Phcebe, who is Mrs. Henry Christ, 
of Lyons ; John, who is in Chicago ; Conrad, who married Mi-s. Mary 
(Eeynolds) Ferguson, and is in Lyons ; Sophia, who is the wife of Andrew 
Baker, of Lyons, and Carrie, who also finds a home in the same place. 

The next residence north is a handsome white house, the home of Henry 
Steitler. It is located in the southeast angle of the cross roads. With its 
convenient surroundings, it is visible from afar in an eastern direction, 
and is pointed out as the last house on this road toward Lyons. Mr. 
Steitler is an Alsatian, and his first wife was Mary Weikner, by whom he 
had Mary, the wife of William H. Espenscheid ; Henry, who is married, 
and lives in Galen, and William, who married Mary Luffman. Mr. Steitler's 
second wife was Mary Eankart, who has borne him Charles and Edith, 
both at home, though Charles has taken to wife Bertha Trask. There are 
about sixty-seven acres in the farm. 

Before leaving this section we must retrace our steps, and place ourselves 
very near the beginning of the century. Then the road, such as it was, 
ran along the west ridge, on the preemption line, and not as now, at the 
foot of the line of hills. As a consequence, whatever traces of early settlers 
along that way might have existed, they all long since disappeared. It is 
more than probable that the first comer to this vicinity was John Drown, 
fir.st. who came hither in 1813 from Parsonsfield, then District of Maine, 
erected into a state in 1820. His wife was Sally Ayers, and somewhere on 
the okV ridge preemption road, south of the east and west one, he located 
his habitation. He had a large family. He bought of Samuel Hoyt, but 
paid at the land office. His brother, Solomon, who came in 1812, lived 
just south of him on the same road, having bought at the office. The last 
dweller on this road, on the west side, and so in Lyons, was a Mr. Tuck, 



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■whose wife was a sister of Josiah Calcott of Huron. Calcott himself 
married Katy, a daughter of the first John Drown. Ruth, another daughter, 
became Mrs. Daniel Hayford of Huron. Solomon was twice married. The 
name of his first wife I have been unable to learn. By her he was the father 
of John, William, Warren, Charles, Betsey and Solomon. His second wife 
was Fanny Dennis of the Wayne Centre family, and by her he had eight 
children. He finally went to Pennsylvania and there ended his days. 
Several of his children became Mormons, and went off at the time of the 
excitement and were lost sight of. The first John Drown afterward lived 
at the foot of the Dodds hill, in the Griswold district, and there his wife 
died. He, too, went to Pennsylvania and died there. It seems that he had 
made some extensive purchases of laud in that state. When the Drowns 
left their first settlement, they sold to Aaron Waterbury. 

The first settler where Steitler is was Jonathan Colborn, who was a 
Pennsylvanian. He, too, came very early in the century, having first stopped 
south of Lyons. His wife was Hannah Hamilton. The farm at first con- 
sisted of one hundred acres. Mr. Colborn died at the age of eighty-eight 
years, in 18.57, and his wife followed him in less than three months, aged 
eighty-one. Both were buried at Ferguson's corners. Their children were 
James, whom we found in the Griswold district ; John, who went to 
Michigan ; Thomas, who married Sally Bowers, from the now Klippel 
farm, and became a Mormon. He had five girls. Clarinda became a 
Crippen, and lived near Rochester ; Catharine became the wife of Ezra 
Yincent, and both joined the Mormons. On this farm a Vincent followed 
Jonathan Colborn, but whether he was Ezra or Josias, I am unable to 
state. Au old map has at this point the name of B. Albough, from whom 
Mr. Steitler may have purchased. Over this whole section, as far as its 
early history is concerned, there seems to brood a deep twilight, not to call 
it night indeed. 

After passing Steitler's, should we go east, we should find only the shut- 
up house of Anthony Turvey, who now lives in Wolcott. This place is 
now on the north side of the road. Again, were we to go west, our way 
would soon be met by the lioundary between Rose and Lyons. It is the 
famous new preemption line ; but which every dweller in these parts, 
young and old, calls " The Pre/^emptiou." Were they all Cockney born, 
they could not iusist any more decidedly in putting in that absurd h. Our 
north and south road runs only a few rods away from this noted meridian. 
Fred Trautman resides in the next house, located a little north of the 
corner, and is on the west side. It was said that a Harvey Gray was first 
here. Then came Josias Vincent; after him Jacob Mitchell, and next 
Conrad Young, who sold to the first Fred Trautman. The latter was of 
German birth and his first wife was Magdaliua Baltzel ; their children were 
George, who lives in Buffalo, and Fred, 2d, who, having married Ida, 



214 ROSE NEIGHBOKHOOD SKETCHES. 

daughter of Ovid Jeffers of Galen, now manages the place. After the death 
of Mrs. T., Mr., Trautman married again, this time Barbara Smith. He, 
himself, died in July, 1889, and his widow with their children— Elbert, 
Philip, Emma and Jessie — resides at the Centre. An older son, Charles, 
died. There are ninety-three acres in the farm. 

The man who holds the next place is, obviously, a careful farmer, for 
everything is in most excellent condition. This farmer is Henry Klippel, 
who came to America from Hesse-Darmstadt in 1852. In 1860 he came 
hither, buying of Lysander Clark, who took from one Bixby, and in time 
the line runs back to the Colborns. The house was built by Bixby. Mr. 
K. married Catharine Austerly, and she has been the mother of numerous 
children. Mr. Klippell has a standing joke, viz. : " I have seven boys and 
every boy has a sister." Many say at once, " Why, then you have four- 
teen children." A remark which pleases Mr. K. not a little, and for any 
one to see through his statement immediately, and to respond, " You have 
eight children," is just a little disappointing. The sons are: John H., 
who, having taken Louisa Fox for his wife, lives in Lyons ; George B., in 
Lyons also ; Philip F., in Chicago ; Edward D.; Sylvester D.; Charles M., 
and Frank E. The last three are at home, but doubtless they, too, 
will soon seek more remunerative situations elsewhere. For the rising 
generation the farm has very little attraction. The only daughter, "every 
boy's sister," is Isadora. In the place are 117^ acres, much of it tim- 
bered swamp land. Mr. K. was one of the very first successful propaga- 
tors of peppermint in the town. 

On the same (west) side of the road, well up and back, is the home of 
Michael Weeks, though everybody in town pronounces the name Wicks. 
This is the site of the old Benjamin Craft place. The three brothers, 
Benjamin, Abram and Thomas, came to these parts from Dutchess county 
as early, it is said, as 1810. This being the case, they must have been 
among the very earliest settlers within our present territory. Benjamin 
Craft died in 1858, at the age of seventy-nine years, and his wife, Elizabeth, 
survived until 1861, dying in that year, aged 81. Both are buried in 
South Sodus. It seems certain that Benjamin C. was the first settler here. 
He had originally 100 acres. His sous were Jonathan Pine and Benjamin, 
Jr. The daughters were : Deborah who married Abraham VanValkenburg ; 
Lydia, who married a Ferguson of Galen, and Margaret, who became the 
wife of Andrew Rhinehart. The latter was killed during the War. J. Pine 
Craft succeeded his father on the farm. In town parlance, he was generally 
known as Pine, and this name is the only one attached to the Craft in the 
South Sodus ground. He died in 1867, at the age of sixty-six years. His 
wife was Amy, a sister of Michael Weeks, the present proprietor, and she 
sold to him. His wife was Frances M. Tooker before marriage. Their 
only child, Ida F., became the wife of Charles O. Baker, a great grandson 



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of Benjamin Craft, the first settler. He resides in Galen. Ida died iu 
1887. A monument in the South Sodus burial ground tells the story of 
her early death at twenty-two years, and that of her infant, Frances E., 
who lived to be only seven months old. The life chapter of mother and 
child is soon written. There are now only forty acres in the place ; but 
Mr. W. keeps everything in admirable order. The house was built by the 
first settler. 

The next house, still on the west side, is that of William McEorie. The 
farm buildings are on the east side. We are yet on the original Craft farm ; 
for this place of fifty acres the first Benjamin gave to Benjamin, Jr., who 
built the most of the buildings. His wife was Lucy Ann Goewey. Of 
their children, Squaire B., an infant, is buried in South Sodus ; Schuyler 
is dead also, and Betsey Ann went west with her parents, where they 
died. To the Crafts succeeded Elisha Barton, whose wife was Caroline 
Warren. Of them my record is very meagre, for I can only mention the 
death of Elisha in ISTiJ, aged fifty-three, and that of his wife in 1884, at 
the age of fifty-four years. The present owner, William McEorie, is a 
native of Missouri. His parents, however, were natives of Galen, whence 
they went before the War to the west. The father, William, was a Union 
soldier, and, as such, was killed. The widow came back east, and our 
citizen was reared here. His wife is Ada, a daughter of the George H. 
Green met in the Griswold district. Their children are : John W. and 
Earl F., two as bright little fellows as are often encountered. (In 1SS3 
McEorie is in Lyons, and McMillen is on the farm.) 

Whatever there is of the hamlet of Wayne Centre may be said to begin 
here. The settlement is doubtless the result of the saw and stave mills 
and cooper shops located at this point. The task is quite too great to trace 
out all the owners and occupants of the small lots. It is probable that all 
this land once belonged to the Crafts, and from them passed to their heirs 
and relatives. The small village has come in the interval of fifty years. 
There are traces of houses, now destroyed, and of shops that ceased to be 
remunerative. 

Perhaps it will be as well to keep to the west side as we near the corners. 
After passing a large evaporator, w-e find the home of Samuel W. Lape, a 
native of Eensselaer county, though reared in Sodus ; has been postmaster, 
both in South Sodus and here ; he was a lieutenant in the Ninth Heavy 
Artillery, Co. D, and is now a justice of the peace. His wife is Julia 
Ann, a daughter of David J. Seager. In early life Mr Lape was a school 
teacher. He has twice taken the census of the town ; iu 1880 alone, in 
1890 the 1st district. 

Philip Rodenbach comes next. He is a native of Hesse-Darmstadt, and 
is one of the most substantial citizens in town. His parents came to Eose 
for a single year, in 1835, but afterwards went to Lyons. He came again 



216 EOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 

in 1852, and has been here ever since. He has four brothers, and the five 
brethren average above 200 pounds each in weight. Mr. E.'s wife was in 
girlhood Margaret Klippel, a sister of Henry, of the same district. There 
are four children, of whom George H. married Josephine Wilder, and 
lives in Grand Forks, Dakota ; Albert P., now in Eochester, and twin 
daughters, Carrie E. and Kate M. The former is the second wife of 
Charles O. Baker of Galen. Mr. Eodenbach bought of William Van Ostraud, 
and his ten acres are a part of the old Benjamin Craft estate. To his 
labors as a farmer Mr. E. has added the work of a blacksmith. His shop 
is still extant, but latterly he has not done much in it. Xo man in the 
place enjoys more respect than our friend, who now ranks as one of the 
oldest inhabitants. 

The fine residence of Joel H. Putnam is just north, and it is one of his 
own building. Before this, was a house in which Jacob Young resided. 
The saw-mill back was the joint property of the three brothers— Conrad, 
John and Jacob Young. Jacob, whose home this was once, now lives on 
a fine farm just north of the Worden place ; but is in the town of Lyons. 
His wife was a Twamley, Martha, a daughter of the family so long 
identified with this vicinity. Mr. Putnam owns here only six acres, but 
he has a large farm eastward from the Corners, where his son Hervey 
lives. At this point he manages an extensive stave factory, a cooper 
shop and keeps up a very large store-house for barrels. Not the least 
interesting item about his premises is a fish pond, covering several rods 
of area, scooped out of the black muck down to the underlying clay, and 
fed from unfailing springs along the banks. Here he has placed eighty 
German carp, and they seem to thrive amain. It is woi-th the time to 
visit the pond to see the fishes fed. Mr. Putnam was born and reared in 
Marion, but claims descent from the brave old "Israel Put" of Eevolu- 
tionary memory. His father was Cornelius, born in Hartford, Conn. His 
first wife was Happy Miller, and his second, Sophia Harris. His grand- 
father was Eufus Putnam, Joel H. Putnam married Eliza Alles, a native 
of the Isle of Guernsey, and they are the parents of Dewey C. , who married 
Nellie Koon, formerly of the Valley, and he lives at home, having three 
children — Hazel. Olive and Eay. (Also Joel, and a girl, both born since 
writing the foregoing.) The second son will be found on the east road, 
and the third son. Wells J., is in Chicago. 

The approaches to the cooper shops and mills are passed next, along 
with the foundations of a house, burned a year ago. 

Then comes E. Piatt Soper, a native of Smithtown, L. I. His first wife 
was Charlotte Cady, of South Butler ; his second wife was Sylvia Grant, of 
Butler. The children by his first wife were : Josephine, who married F. 
Priest Wilcox, of Orleans county, a farmer ; and Erwin, who married Nettie 
Deputron, and lives in Auburn. His second wife is the mother of Elbert 



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G. and A. Vianna, both young people at home. Mr. Soper has thirty-four 
acres here, the results of several purchases, representing the names of 
Craft, Shaw and Bartou. Mr. Soper, like many people hereabouts, does 
coopering also, and his shop and barn are opposite. He is a brother of 
Egbert and Daniel, once living in the east part of the town. 

On the corner is the home of Alfred Spong, of German birth. He has 
three children. Before him occurs the name of H. Dunham. Obviously, 
the site is an old one, but I can not undertake the finding of all those who 
have lived here. 

Glossing the road, on the southeast corner, is one of the oldest houses 
in the vicinity, associated to some extent with Abraham Van Valkenburg, 
remembered as the husband of Deborah Craft. There were several chil- 
dren in this family that reached maturity, and are : John, who lives in 
Leroy ; Benjamin and Isaac, both in British Columbia ; Abraham, who 
married Dora Barton, of Lyons, and who also lives in Leroy ; Betsey mar- 
ried Andrew Baker, of Sodus, who was killed in logging ; and Margaret, 
who married John P. Shaw, long a resident on this corner. Mr. Van V. 
died in 1863, aged sixty-two years, and Mrs. Van V. in 1876, at the age 
of sixty -eight years. A daughter by the name of Adelaide died in 1881, 
aged thirty-two years. The Shaws who dwelt here are both dead, and, 
with their predecessors, lie in the South Sodus burial ground. They died, 
respectively, in 1880 and 1884, at the ages of forty-three and forty-four 
years. They left two children — Sheridan, now in California, and Emma, 
in Leroy. Albert and J. Wesley died in childhood. Mr. Shaw was a 
member of the !)th N. Y. Heavy Artillery, and Abraham Van Valkenburg, 
his father-in-law, died in service as a member of the 160th Infantry, 
rather an old man for soldiering. 

Turning to the south, we pass Piatt Soper's shop and barn and come to 
the home of various people, whose residence is more or less transient. 
Abraham Van Valkenburg's homestead was next. The store and post 
office are kept by John Trimble, who came hither from the town of Ontario 
four years since. His wife was Viola Woolsey, of Sodus. He has ten 
acres of land, having bought from Mrs. Dennis. The post office in Wayne 
Centre dates from 1863. (?) Joel H. Putnam received the appointment, 
and he deputized Moses Dennis, who was later made full postmaster. The 
service was meagre, coming only once a week, gratis, from Lyon^. In 1878 
the office was put on the route between South Sodus and Lyons, and had 
mail twice a week. In the days of John Camp, of Lyons, the office began 
getting a daily mail. After Dennis, as incumbents were S. W. Lape, 
Augustus Conroe, Joel H. Putnam and Trimble. 

Next south is a house erected by Conrad Young, which passed afterward 
to the father of Dr. J. J. Dickson, late of the Valley, and in it he died. It 
is now held by Anthony Hebgen. The holdings south of this point are 
small and have changed owners and occujiants many times. 



218 KOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 

Returning to the cross roads, the school-house is found on the northwest 
corner. I do not know how many buildings have preceded it, but learn 
that the first edifice stood to the northward, where a road diverges from 
that of the preemption, standing just over the Lyons line. After many 
years, a site further south was selected. Here are held religious services 
every Sunday, alternately in English and German. They are Methodistic 
in character. The point is one on the Lock Berlin charge, though it has , 
belonged to South Sodus and to the Valley. In many respects the latter 
union seems the more natural and desirable. 

Whatever dwellings there may have been in the past, there are no indi- 
cations of houses till we reach the home of widow Miller. As she says, it 
has been the widow's abode for many years, since before her for twenty 
years was the widow Bennett. The site is an admirable one, commanding 
a wide view to the south and east. Here Philip H. Miller, a native of 
Alsace, came many years since. His wife was Mary M. Klippel, another 
sister of Henry. Their children are : Edward, now in Dakota ; Wells, 
who married Libbie Dodds, and lives in Lyons ; Frank, married and lives 
in Lyons ; Walter, who is at home ; Matilda, the wife of C4eorge Wraight, 
of the Covell district ; Carrie E. and Maud C, who are, I believe, teachers. 
Mr. Miller died sixteen years ago, leaving directions that the place should 
be managed by his widow for eighteen years, when the property should be 
divided. She is now nearing the end of her trust, and, apparently, has 
done her part faithfully. She tells me, however, that the boys of to-day 
don't like the farm, and she can not get hired help to do as she would like. 
' ' Should Miller see those arrow weeds standing in the fence corners, it 
would make him turn in his grave," was her remark, as she dilated on 
the decadence of the times and the disposition of the young men of the 
present to selfishly go for themselves at once. Mr. Miller bought of Jacob 
Mitchell, who took from the widow Bennett, who had been there for a 
long time. Before her and her husband are the names of Heldrigel, Vin- 
cent and Wm. Morris, the latter of whom probably took up the land from 
the office. 

Our road crooks around toward the west, and on the south side is the 
most sightly edifice in the vicinity. Tunis Woodruff, who located here 
many, many years since, was singularly fortunate in his situation. Back 
of him was only one name, probably that of Lewis Morris, who went west. 
The Woodruffs, good. God-fearing people, dwelt here many a year, and 
hence passed to their reward and last resting place in the South Sodus 
inclosure ; Mr. W. dying in 1864, at the age of sixty. 

There was once a burial place north of the barn, but who were placed 
there I have no means of learning. The spot was finally plowed over. The 
farm has one hundred acres. There were three Woodruffs reared here — 
George, now in Lyons ; Isaac, in the west, and Mary, who once lived in 



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the Valley as Mrs. Ansou Waring. After the Woodruffs came Constan- 
tine Worden, and this was his home for twenty-four years, he only last 
spring, /. e., 1890, leaving to live in Lyons. His wife was Phrebe, a 
daughter of Michael Vandercook. Her death toob place four years ago. 
Their children were : George, of the Jeffers district ; Leonard, who mar- 
ried Maggie Weeks, and is east of North Rose, and William, whose home 
is northeast of Wayne Centre, in the town of Sodus. Mr. Wordeu still 
holds the farm, renting it to George L. Reynolds, of Lyons. 

This road runs into the town of Lyons, and thence into Sodus, but on 
the very top of the hill we turn to the north and, for a short distance, 
follow the thoroughfare that forms for some rods the town line. Just 
beyond the foot of the hill it crooks abruptly to the right, /. e., east, and 
our first halt is at a small house, in which resides the widow of Isaac 
Warren. lu 1S53 the place was put down as the home of William West, 
but of him I can give no details. The Warrens were among the very first 
settlers in Rose, coming in along with or soon after the Craft family. The 
progenitor was Comstock Warren, who, after the birth of his children, took 
a load of bark to Geneva and never returned. His leaving was one of the 
mysteries that afflicted our friends many years ago, and must have been 
more than a nine days' wonder. Xo satisfactory explanation was ever 
made of what could draw a man from his family in this abrupt manner. 
There may have been home incompatibility, the man's habits may not have 
always been just correct ; but be these suppositions as they may, a woman, 
practically a widow, was left with small children to maintain. Mr. Warren 
was from Dutchess county, and only Isaac C. and Caroline, who, as Mrs. 
Elisha Barton, was many years at the Centre, continued in Rose. The 
sons, George, Jacob and William, went west; Hannah, who, as Mrs. 
Abram Morris, went to Michigan ; Maria, who married Leonard Brown, of 
Lyons, and Abbie, who is Mrs. Rufus Rowland, of Michigan. The land 
taken from the office was paid for by the Warren sons. Upon Isaac early 
fell the burden of hard labor, and he discharged his duties manfully, till 
illness prostrated him upon a bed of suffering. His wife was Emeline Bennett, 
of Sodus. This place was not the old home ; that was farther along to the 
north, where Walter White now lives. On that site they lived and here was 
born their only son, James, to be met later. Isaac Warren, after yeai's 
of hard work, was afflicted with rheumatism, making him bed-ridden for 
sixteen years. Nearly helpless during all this time, it seemed a sad sequel 
to his former life of activity and usefulness. He died in 1883, and is buried 
in South Sodus. Near him lies his mother, Sarah, who passed away in 
1875, at the age of eighty-two. The house in which Mrs. Warren now 
lives was built by Mr. Morris, and by him sold to Isaac Warren. 

Across the way, just where the road takes a northerly course, is a neat 
house, the home of the Sutherlands. Years ago this bore the name of P. 



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Bennett. The first of this family was buried in the South Sodus cemetery. 
There are in the place eight acres, and the occupants of the house are 
•Charles and his sisters, Elizabeth and Rebecca. Mr. S. for some years 
drove the stage between Wayne Centre and Lyons. Land belonging to 
the Twamley family surrounds these places. 

On the west side of the road, which here is about forty-five- points to the 
east of north, is the place where the Warrens long lived. James, son of 
Isaac, succeeded his father here, and here he lived with his wife, Ella Lape, 
till his early death, in 1878, at the age of twenty-five. His taking off was 
one of those distressing affairs that sometimes end in what began as 
pleasantry and fun. A party in September had gone out for a night of 
pleasure in hunting raccoons. The animal had been treed. The tree had 
been cut down, but a limb had been detached and left hanging to an 
adjacent tree. This, of course, could not be seen in the night, but its 
descent was none the less sure, and its stroke none the less fatal. A 
widow and a fatherless boy were a heavy price to pay for diversion. This 
boy's name is James Isaac, and he is at home with his mother. She 
afterward married Walter White, who came hither from Chautauqua 
county. They have three children— Flora, John and Walter. In the old 
farm there were one hundred acres. The house built by the Warrens 
followed the original log house of the pioneer. In the old 1853 map, the 
name of W. West occurs just south of the Warren place. This farm is on 
the old allotment. No. 220. Further north, on lot No. 526, was, years 
since, the name of J. Boweu. I have nothing more. 

Across the road is lot No. 517, and on the lower part of it is a house 
belonging to Charles LaRock, now of Wallingford. He bought of S. W. 
Lape, who took the land from the office. This part of the town had many 
acres in the land office till a comparatively recent date. 

On the upper or northern part of this lot is the home of Monroe Seager, 
but years since the name of J. Ellis is found. Mr. S. bought directly from 
Edward LaRock, who took from S. W. Lape, and he from the land office. 
On this place Mr. Seager has erected a fine house. He has been three 
times married. First, to Anna Wraight ; second, to Harriet Dunn, of the 
Covell district ; and third, to Mary (Dunn) Wager, a sister of Harriet. 
There were two children— Amanda, now deceased, who married Edward 
LaRock (leaving a daughter, Anna), and Monroe. The latter is by the 
third wife, the former by the first. There are twenty-eight acres in the 
farm. 

Some ways back from the road, on the west side, are the walls on which 
stood the Woodruff steam sawmill. In 1857 this blew up, injuring 
seriously several men and killing George Grenell. As the trees were 
nearly all cut off, it did not pay to rebuild, and consequently we have 
to-day only a history. The owner, however, was anxious to sell, and he 



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succeeded in exchanging the small farm with David J. Seager, who lived 
next north, for a colt, a pair of oxen and a watch. However good this 
trade was for both parties, it eventually wrought great misfortune for Mr. 
Seager, as we shall presently see. The Seagers came from Danbury, Conn., 
and the first of the family to settle in this vicinity was John K., who, with 
his wife, Clara Jackson, came first to Lock Berlin, in Galen, and thence to 
York's settlement, and thereby became the progenitor of the Seagers of 
Eose, Huron and Sodus. Long since, the first comers found final resting 
places in the cemetery near York's corners. At present we are specially 
interested in David J., who was in his seventeenth year at the time of the 
family migration. In time he wedded Hannah Warner, a daughter of the 
Asher Warner who was slain in the British attack on Sodus Point in 
1813. It may be quite as well to state here the names of the second 
generation of Seagers. In addition to David there were: John B., who 
settled in Huron, and was the father of CTCorge, living north of the Valley ; 
Harrison, who settled in Sodus ; Syrena, who married William Sebring, of 
Eose, and Clarissa, who became Mrs. Adam Crisler, also of Eose. To 
David J. Seager and his wife was born a large family, as follows : John, 
who married Mary York, of the settlement, and formerly lived to the north- 
east ; Julia Ann became Mrs. Samuel Lape of the Centre ; Monroe, as we 
have seen, has been three times married ; Benjamin, who was a sergeant of 
Company D, Ninth Heavy Artillery, married Louisa LaEock, and resides 
in Huron ; Susan, the wife of Warren York, lived and died in Huron ; 
Asher W. we shall meet in the next house north ; Daniel, a Huronite, 
married first, Eliza Hart, a daughter of Samuel C, and second, Lucretia 
Daly, ixnd has one daughter, Ada ; Munson married Emma Dunbar, a 
daughter of John, and lives in Eose ; Clara is Mrs. Charles LaEock, of 
Wallington, and has four children — Eose, David, Maria and Charles ; 
George W. married, first, Emma Spong, of the Centre, and second, Candace 
O. Rumpus, of Huron, his children being Maud, Ernest and Earl ; Hannah, 
who married Samuel Davenport, and lives at home with her aged parents. 
Mr. Seager has done his share of hard work, having taken from the land 
office his claim and having cleared and nearly paid for it. His claim was 
north, where Asher is now. He had paid in principal and interest more 
than the estimated value of the lot, when in trading for the Woodruff lot, 
he unwittingly violated the terms of his contract, and his lot, improve- 
ments and all, were sold from under him. This was a terrible blow, enough 
to dishearten almost any man, but Mr. S. is not the only man in Eose 
whom man's inhumanity to man has compelled to pay for his farm twice 
over. So from the spot where he reared his family he moved to the smaller 
holding, where he now is, and where he and his wife await the end of life. 
Mr. Seager has seen many changes on these plains. When he came fifty- 
three years ago, there were deer to be found, and aside from fifteen acres 



222 EOSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 

of improved or cleared laud (one Baldwin had been there), his surroundings 
were those of the wilderness. (Mrs. David Seager died December 30, 
1891.) 

Passing northward, we find where the longest road in Rose, that going 
by the Covell school-house, enters this north and south way. Toward the 
east and also west of us huckleberries abound, and so the respective places 
are called huckleberry swamps. When David Seager lost his farm, his 
son, Asher, was only a boy, but he vowed that if he lived long enough, he 
would yet own the old homestead. The War came, the boy enlisted, served 
his time in Company D, of the Xiuth Heavy Artillery, came home, married 
Mary J. Weeks, a neighbor's daughter, raised mint, saved his money, and 
finally realized his boyish dream. To-day he has the old place, and has 
erected a fine house near the site of the framed building built by the father, 
and which now forms the hitter's home ou the Woodruff place. The site 
of the first log house may also be seen in the door yard. Mrs. Seager is 
an invalid, and they have no children ; but they have taken to their hearth 
and hearts the daughter of one of Mr. S.'s army comrades, and Jennie is, 
to all intents, their own. Mrs. S. died December 1, 1890. (Mr. Seager 
married, in 1892, Elizabeth A. Klippel, of Lyons.) 

Crossing the road and going a little further to the north, we find the 
home of Abram Wager. There are 117 acres in the place, and he bought 
in 1855 the contract of John Seager and father, so that, practically, he 
took his farm from the land office. It should be remarked, in passing, 
that this locality is known in neighborhood parlance as Seagerville. The 
house in which Mr. Wager lives was repaired by him, he finding an old one 
on his coming. Mr. W. has put np one of the largest barns in these parts. 
Unless struck by a cyclone, there seems to be no reason why it should not 
long continue a landmark on this road. Close by it, in fact joining it, he 
is now erecting a carriage house and horse barn of similar model, viz., 
high studded and with a hip roof. Few farmers in town will be better 
fitted when this work is done. Abram Wager is a native of this part of 
the town, and his wife was Hannah Paylor of Galen. Their children are : 
William P., who married Eosette Phillips, a daughter of Joseph P., of the 
Covell district, and who now lives in Galen, having two children, Ida and 
Ada. (Mrs. Wager died August 26, 1891, and Mr. Wager has since 
married Carrie Raver of Buffalo. Their home is now on the Van Buskirk 
farm in Jeffers district.) Luther married Ella Potter, and lives Just north ; 
Alice E. and Albert are at home. The newness of this part of the town is 
especially evident, as we reflect that in most cases the children of the 
original contractors are dead or extremely old, but here we have Mr. 
Wager in the prime of life, yet he settled with the office for his farm. The 
Wagers are from the family of David, who was born in Dutchess county, 
and came to this town long since, locating his lot in York settlement, 



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■where the Dixons now live. His wife was Clarissa Dunbar, a sister of 
Henry Dunbar, a fellow migrant, to be met later. Their children were : 
Eliza Jane, who died in 1SS7 ; Mary Ann ; Sarah M., the wife of George 
Dixon ; William Henry, a member of the Ninth Heavy Artillery, Company 
D., who married Mary Dunn, and died in 1879, and Mrs. Wager afterward 
married Moqroe Seager ; Abram, the second child, we have already met. 

Beyond the barns, toward the north, is a fine new house, where Luther 
Wager is tasting the sweets of newly wedded life. This home is the end 
of our northward journey, though on an old map of the county T find one 
more name, at the extreme end of the road, /. e., where it terminates in 
the east and west way. In the southeast angle thus made ai-e the words 
J. Reynolds, but there is no trace of a habitation there now. 

Eetracing our steps, we will imagine ourselves in Lyons, and about to 
reach Wayne Centre by the nearest course. After crossing the preemption 
line, there is only one house to be met as we near the hamlet. Indeed, we 
shall have to look sharp or it will not be seen. A lane reaches up through 
the fields to the house where lives Samuel Chambers. He came hither 
from Binghamton. His wife was Nancy Finch of Lyons, and they have 
one child — Eosa. There are thirteen acres in the holding. 

Passing the corners, there is first, on the north side, the house belonging 
to John Lester, though he is not residing in it. His home is Wallington. 
Ezra Dunham is the occupant. S. Chambers once owned here. Opposite 
is the old home of the Van Valkenburgs. Valentine Kaiser is the next 
dweller. He is a son of the Valentine encountered in our " Jeffers " 
rambles. He is now the mail carrier between Wayne Centre and Lyons. 

There are several reminders of old homes to the eastward — log houses 
and old framed structures — but they have all been merged into the i^osses- 
sion of Mervin Harrington, a native of Savannah, who, coming hither, 
bought the belongings of Mrs. A. Eidgeway, Geo. H. Green and some of 
the Thomas Lambert lot. Over his property the cyclone of ISSS passed 
in all its fury. It strung his barn all over the premises and ujirooted 
many trees. The barn he rebuilt nearer the road, but the trees were 
pretty effectually done for. His wife is Mary, a daughter of the Lamberts, 
next east. Mr. H. is a veteran of the 3d Light Artillery, and his latch- 
string is always out for old comrades. The Lamberts are of English birth, 
and to the next place east, Thomas L. came many years ago, having taken 
from the land office a claim of fifty-six acres. He had three children — ■ 
Thomas, who went out west and died ; Mary, who is Mrs. Harrington, 
and William, at home. Mr. L. died in 1884, and is buried in Eose. 

We now come to the farm standing in the name of Joel H. Putnam, liut 
his son, Hervey T., is the occupant. The latter married Hattie, a daugh- 
ter of Egbert Soper, once of District No. 7. They have four children — 
Wheeler, Grace, Inez and Victor I. This is one of the oldest locations in 



224 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 

the neighborhood. The house and barns, together with the farm, indicate 
industry and prosperity. There are in all about 200 acres ; but the farm 
represents the former homes of at least two families. On the south side, 
where the buildings are, was Ebenezer Toles, whose children we encountered 
in the Lake district, and he bought from Dodds. There are in this part 
some ninety- six acres. North of the road are indications of earlier resi- 
dents, very likely one of the Crafts. 

Still north of the road, a trifle further east, is an old house, the former 
habitation of the farm owners. Mr. Putnam bought of James Elmer of 
Lyons, and he purchased from Thomas Sweet. This is the old Abram 
Craft place, the spot to which these people came so early in the century. 
Here the late Mrs. Seymour Covell was boi-n, and here she was married. 
Thence the family went to Michigan. Abram Craft came from Dutchess 
county, and took his lot from Fellows & McNab. His wife was Huldah 
Newberry, and their children were : Joel, James, Thorn, Clarissa ( Mrs. 
Covell), and Charles. The latter married Lydia Lyman, a sister of Milo. 
The whole family moved to White Lake, Oakland county, Michigan, but 
the Covells, as we have seen, returned. The continuous migration west- 
ward of some families seems almost startling. Alaska offers new oppor- 
tunities for those who, till its purchase, had to stop at California. 

A large brick house, obviously roomy and comfortable, next claims our 
attention. It is on the south side of the way, some way east of the old 
wooden structure, in which dwelt for so many years the men and women 
who called this place home. I am told that Thomas Craft first dwelt here. 
He was a brother of Benjamin and Abram. I have learned that the name 
of Van Wort is also connected with it. It is certain that John Dickson 
was long a resident on these acres. He was from Kingsbury, Washington 
county, a fellow townsman of the Seelyes, Benjamin and Joseph. Beside 
the son, Dr. Dickson of the Valley, he had a daughter, Sophronia, who 
married Thomas Mirick, and after his death married again. She, too, is 
dead. As we have seen, the first John Dickson died in Wayne Centre. 
After the Dicksons comes the name of Joel Hall, who went to Palmyra. 
Succeeding him was W^illiam Stanton of Lyons, from whom the present 
owner, Newman Finch, purchased. There are 101 acres in the farm. Mr. 
P. built his house in 1880, thus making a very handsome addition to the 
dwellings of Rose. The old house yet remains, rather a sombre reminder 
of the days when people worked hard and had few comforts. Mr. Finch 
married Malvina Chatterson of the Covell district, and they have four 
children, viz.: Eda, the wife of George Youngs of Lyons ; Ina M.; George 
W., and Lila May, all at home. 

I am informed that down in the woods, to the north, lives William 
Weeks, and that before him was Jerry Lethbridge ; but I must take the 
word of my informant for all this, since, like Chas. Lamb, concerning sun- 
rise, I have had no ocular evidence. 



ROSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 225 

The home of John L. Finch, however, stands out prominently. This 
house is one of his own building. It is on the north side of the street, 
some rods west of the old location. With the farm buildings, Mr. Finch 
has a most delightful outfit for work and pleasure. His wife is Amanda 
Phillips, a daughter of the late Abram, and so granddaughter of Mrs. 
Jacob Tipple, who lived to be more than one hundred years old. This 
place was where Michael Vandercook first located, though his house was 
further east, and on these acres his children were reared. To him suc- 
ceeded Samuel Bockoven, who had traded the farm in the Griswold district. 
The Bockoven house was the one across the vale on the north side, now 
shut up, but formerly Mr. Finch's home. As we bid good-by to the street 
and the Wayne Centre district, it is with just a little regret that, unlike 
the Finch house opposite, there are in this handsome cage no Finches of a 
younger growth to make it lifeful and musical. 

Just a few rods beyond the confines of the district, is the summit of the 
hill which marks the western limit of "Jeffers," and it is meet to stop 
and to look backward over the scene. North, south, east and west are 
the homes of industrious people, and before them were those of former 
generations. Time speeds along. Many of the former dwellers are in the 
cemeteries, near and far, and many are yet fighting life's battles on other 
fields. Born and reared with these beautiful surroundings, let us hope 
that, whether here or elsewhere, they are worthy representatives of the 
town, so long conspicuous for honesty and sobriety. 

SCHOOL DISTEICT NO. 10.— SODUS; oe, "The Preijmption." 

August 13, 1891. 

No one has the least idea of the size of the town of Eose till he under- 
takes, as I have done, a house-to-house visitation. Were this a town in 
Massachusetts, the frequent convention of her citizens in town meeting 
would result in familiar acquaintance throughout its limits. As it is, we 
find here, in the extreme northwestern part, people who have scarcely 
heard of the first settlers along the eastern border. In fact, as the post 
office address here is either South Sodus or Alton, in almost every instance, 
and as going to Eose Valley simply to vote does not necessarily beget 
intimacy, many of our Eose dwellers in this district are more like Sodus 
people than Eose citizens. I don't mean to intimate that a stranger would 
be able to detect any physical characteristics peculiar to either town, but 
I do mean that their conversation and thoughts are more on Sodus than on 
Eose. 

We shall enter this district by going north from Seagerville, north from 
Wayne Centre, and I have seen somewhere in the southwest angle, as th(; 
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226 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 

road ends, the name of S. Howard, but to-day there is no trace of any 
dwelling. 

Turning to the west, remembering that the boundary between the pre- 
emption and the York settlement district is a line continued north 
from this road, which ends here, we first encounter, on the north side, the 
house of Daniel Martin. Mr. M. was born in Lyons, but he was only a 
small boy when his father came to this farm. His wife was Katie Baruum 
of Arcadia. They have only one child, Myrtie E. In this farm there are 
forty-seven acres ; he bought of his father five years ago. Daniel Martin, 
Sr., bought of DeWitt W. Parshall, the wealthy Lyons banker, lately de- 
ceased ; again I turn to an old map, and there I find the name of I. Farr. 
The early days are thus obscured. 

A mint still is passed before reaching the next place, on the same side 
of the way ; here dwell the Eekuglers, a German family from Wurtem- 
berg ; the first comer, John, is dead, but his sons are yet on the place. 
The place was bought of D. W. Parshall, who had purchased from E. M. 
Louis and John Horn. The name of J. Seymour also occurs here earlier. 
In the original farm there are eighty-eight acres, and to these have been 
added twelve acres on the north. The first John's wife was Sophia 
Einkel ; his sons, Charles and John, are now managing the place, and ap- 
parently very successfully. There is a very pleasaut house on the corner, 
northeast, where this road terminates. 

Crossing to the southeast corner, we may see where Samuel P. Thomp- 
son and family reside. Mr. T. was a good soldier in the Sth X. Y. Cavalry, 
and his worth is recognized in his holding official positions in Rose. His 
wife was Emily Burns of Rose ; they have two sons, James P. and Robert 
L., both at home. Mr. Thompson's father, Robert P.. was born in Sara- 
toga county and came hither long since ; his wife was Elizabeth Fulton ; 
their children are : Albert, living to the northward ; Eliza married Henry 
Taylor of Sodus, and Samuel. The grandfather, Ezekiel, also came to 
these parts. The old home was on the Sodus side of the road and to the 
north, near the site of Mr. Thompson's barns. The well is still in use 
from which water was drawn in the old open bucket so long ago. It was 
in this old location that the elder Thompsons died. An earlier name here 
was that of E. M. Lewis. 

To the southward, just where the preemption road turns off to enter 
Sodus, at the very angle, on the Rose side, was once the name of E. 
Lemon, but I have no aid to this suggestive appellation, and so must leave 
it as it is. 

Northward from Rekugler's and Thompson's, keeping to the right, we 
shall find where, for some time, was F. Myers, but he has sold to the 
Rekuglers and gone to Michigan. Before him was Geo. Sucher. The 
house, somewhat ancient, is the home of tenants. Albert Clary lives 
next, a nephew of the Samuel Clary found in the '-Jeffers" district. 



KOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 227 

Were it not my determination to keep to the right, I have no doubt I 
could find much of interest in the people who dwell on the west side of the 
road. There are more Sodus residents than Eoses ; but I must confine 
myself to my fiower garden. Albert Thompson resides in the next house. 
As previously stated, he is a son of the Eobert Thompson once living to 
the south. His wife is Sarah, a daughter of Caleb Weeks, who lives on 
the next road east. Their children are Franklin, Albert, Ernest and Edna 
B. There are thirty acres in the farm, which was bought of Morris Wager. 
This gentleman lives now in the Valley district, and will be met there. 
The place was bought many years since from the widow Sutton, whose 
husband, presumably, took from the laud office. As the old home of the 
W^agers was on this road, about forty rods north of the old Tindall home 
in Huron, it will not be amiss to give some data here concerning a name 
having so many representatives in this part of Eose. John Wager, the 
first comer, was a native of Dutchess county, and with his wife, Mar- 
garet Dunn, came early in the century to Pilgrimsport, the spot of debark- 
ing for so many of the early settlers of this region. Afterward he moved 
to his Huron home, and there died, in 1856, at the age of ninety years. 
His wife survived him two years, and died, aged eighty- seven. They 
were buried at York's corners. They had six children, the most of whom 
will be encountered, either in the flesh or in memory, as we journey 
through the northwest part of Eose. Jacob lived a little south of York's 
corners, and had one son, James, who died in 1855, at the age of twenty 
years ; David has been mentioned as the father of Abram Wager, in the 
north part of the Wayne Centre district ; Catharine became the wife of 
Henry Dunbar, of Eose ; Margaret is Mrs. Caleb Weeks ; Susan is the wife 
of Alvah Jewell, both of York settlement; while Charles, the youngest 
son, now an aged man, dwells on the preemption road, though on the 
Sodus side and near the school-house, the old Fellows place. His wife 
was Mary Alvord, and their children are: Almira, the wife of David 
McDowell, and lives in Sodus ; Nancy, who is Mrs. Charles McDowell, 
also of Sodus, and Morris. The second child was John, who died during 
the War at Key West, Florida, a member of the 98th N. Y. Volunteers. 

At the left, a few rods south of the railroad, is found the school-house 
for this district. It is just over the line in Sodus. Xearly opposite was 
once a home, the abode of N. Utter. The place has been merged in the 
Tindall farm, and the old home is utterly desolate. 

The extreme northwest confines of Eose are reached when, having 
crossed the railroad, we come to the home of the Tindalls. Charles H. 
Tindall came here many years ago, from Pilgrimsport, a brother of 
"Farm," long prominent in the Valley. He was born in New Jersey, and 
his wife was Polly A. Camp, who was born in Ohio, but of a Connecticut 
family, long conspicuous in Litchfield county. In her infancy, she was 



228 EOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 

taken back to her New England home, and there she resided till she was 
fourteen years of age. For this portion of our land she then acquired an 
affection that years have not been able to efface. Coming on a visit to 
Pilgrimsport, she met her future husband, and, instead of returning to 
Connecticut, as expected, she formed a lifelong union with him. Event- 
ually, they came to this point, where they have been for more than fifty 
years. The house, built by Mr. T., stands very near the town line. The 
Eose portion of the farm was bought of John Wager, who took from the 
land office. There are in this part some sixty-five acres. Of their chil- 
dren, Louisa married William Gatchell, of Huron; Lovina married 
Eobert Catchpole, of Huron, and both are dead; Lucy married Henry 
Gatchell ; Polly is Mrs. Ealph Palmer, of Sodus ; Eosette became Mrs. 
Philip Weber, of Sodus ; Alonzo, deceased, married Sarah Munson ; 
Charles, at home, and Jerome Worth, who, having married Ida Clark, 
lives south of the Valley. The elder Mr. Tindall died in 1883. His 
widow, pleasant and retentive in memory, with her son, Charles, still 
remains on the old place, so fraught with agreeable associations. By 
a former marriage, Mr. Tindall had one sou. Myron P., who married 
Emeline York, and lives in Huron. 

SCHOOL DISTEICT NO. 2.— HUEON; or, "York Settlement." 

August 22-20, 1891. 

We will enter this district, or that part of it belonging to Eose, from the 
north, and the first resident therein we shall find in the person of Adam 
Crisler. Adam, it will be observed, is a good name to begin with. As 
we enter the premises of this man and observe the cooper shop at the 
right, we should be justified in thinking that a Crisler dwelt here, even 
if we did not know the name; for no Crisler ever thinks himself properly 
equipped till such a shop is added to his possessions. Following a lane, 
we soon reach one of the cleanest, neatest homesteads that I have found 
in my Eose rambles. House, barns, yards— everything is the soul of 
neatness and order. Over all, waves an umbrageous elm, a faithful 
sentinel, keeping guard over these results of honest toil and industry. 
The home is on the west side of the road. Mr. C. is a member of the 
family, for many years identified with Eose. He married Clarissa Seager, 
a sister of David, of the Wayne Centre district. Their children are : 
Jared E., who married Eosina Lake, and lives in the Valley ; Charles M., 
who married Sybil Day, and is in the Covell district. Mr. Crisler has 
been here twenty-four years, but before him the place seems to have had 
many owners. Of these I can give scarcely more than the names. Mr. 
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from Gideon Wibur ; he from William Sebring, and before bim was the 
first owner, Henry Dunbar, to be met in the eastern part of the neigh- 
borhood. There are seventy acres in the farm. The name of Stephenson 
occurs in old records, on the east side, just south of the Huron line, but I 
have no other trace. 

On the east side of the road are fields belonging to Gilbert Brown and 
to Alvah Jewell. Mr. Brown's extensive berry field is here, some eleven 
acres being given to this culture. 

Next south, we find Samuel C. Hart, who has long been a Rose dweller. 
He was mentioned in the Covell district article, he having resided many 
years on the farm now occupied by George Wraight. He was born in 
Ontario county, and his wife, who died in 1865, was Ann Witherell, from 
Vermont. Their children were : Mary and Ann Eliza, both dead ; Marion 
and Ira, whom we met in the Griswold neighborhood, and William H., 
at home. Mary married Geo. Knox, then of Rose, but now in Michigan, 
and left a daughter, Lillie Ann ; Eliza married Daniel Seager of Huron. 
Mr. Hart came to Rose iu 1842, and he tells me that his first place was 
bought of one Nichols, perhaps the Nicholas property. His present 
holding of thirty-eight acres he took from the land office. He built the 
house now used by him. Near it is an old, unoccupied structure, erected 
by John Weeks, and back of that is a log house, used by some of the line 
of squatters who, all through this section, preceded the permanent settler. 
Mr. Hart has long been a member of the Baj^tist Church. 

South of Mr. Hart's, a road begins, which, with many windings, finally 
runs through Gleumark. On the southeast corner is the fine residence of 
Frank Weeks, who, a sou of Caleb, married Lucy Creek. They have only 
one child, Jennie. 

The next place to the south, and still on the east side, is the old David 
Wager place. It is now held by George Dixon, who married Mr. Wager's 
daughter, Sarah. The Dixons were originally from Ireland, where Abel, 
the immigrant, married Alice Twamley, a native of Wicklow, and a i-ela- 
tive of the Twamleys, on the borders of Lyons, near Wayne Centre. Abel 
must have halted first iu New Jersey, for in that .state some, if not all, of 
his children were born. The first Dixon who settled near Glenmark has 
long been dead, but his widow, at the age of ninety years, died a few weeks 
since. As the Wagers have already been given, it will be proper to give 
facts concerning the Dixons. There were several children, namely : Ben- 
jamin, who went to Ohio ; William is in Michigan ; Jane is in New York; 
Ellen, who married first, John Howard, second, Harry Traher of Glenmark; 
Hannah, the wife of Monroe Jewell ; Mary, deceased, who married James 
Russell ; after Ellen, should have been named George, who lives here, 
and Abel, who died in War times, a member of Co. G, Ninth N. Y. Heavy 
Artillery. He sleeps in the burial ground at York's corners. The gene- 



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sis of this place is short, since it goes back through Dixons and Wagers to 
the land ofiBce. 

Still moving southward, we find a house where lives "William Weeks, 
another son of Caleb. The fathei- built this house. William married 
Lueze Welch, of Sodus, and they have one daughter, Ora. 

Opposite dwells Caleb Weeks, who married long since Margaret 
Wager, a sister, I think, of David, and once a neighbor on the north. 
Their children are : Frauk, living on the corners, north ; Hannah, the 
wife of Nelson Dunbar, of Huron ; Jane, the wife of Asher Seager ; Martha, 
the wife of John York, of North Rose ; Sarah, who is Mrs. Albert Thomp- 
son, of the preemption, and- William, the son, dwelling across the way. 

At the angle in the road, where it turns abruptly to the west, is a log 
house, only recently occupied. As late as 1888, a family by the name of 
Porter lived in it. It was built by one Joe Miles, and among other occu- 
pants was Monroe Seager. This house, still well preserved, of hewed 
logs, with mortar clinking, on the east side of the elbow, is without doubt 
the last used pioneer edifice in Rose. Similar houses in the eastern part of 
the town disapjieared years since. 

Our district, so far as this road is concerned, is ended, but if we ride 
down into Seagerville, turn to the east and proceed till we come to the house 
of Frank Garlic, and there turn to the north, we shall again enter York settle- 
ment, stopping first at the home of Frank Miner, though I understand that, 
owing to some differences, his place has been set off to the Covell's neighbor- 
hood. Mr. Miner, one of the sons of Riley Miner, married Mary A. Mitchell, 
and has children ; Jennie, Maud, Franklin, Zenas, Minerva, and John. 
He succeeded upon these twenty-seven acres P. Brower, who had married a 
daughter of Philip Marquette, one of the first if not the very first owners. 
There seem to be several of this name living in Glenmark, whence came 
Philip, who died in 1861 . He had two daughters — Amelia and Elizabeth. 
The former is dead and the latter is Mrs. George Pritchard of Sodus. 

Crossing the railroad, we pass through the Dunbar possessions, whose 
name the cross roads bear. On the southeast angle there was, long ago, a 
log house, where dwelt various families. Before that it was the site of 
many charcoal pit burnings ; for here Henry Dunbar worked many a 
weary day and night. Bushes and old-fashioned flowers still indicate the 
haunts of man. 

Diagonally across is a small building, where Aaron Dunbar once kept a 
grocery. On the northeast corner a blacksmith shop once stood, and in it 
were shod the farmers' horses of this vicinity. 

To the west, we shall find but little, only an old house, now nailed up, 
built by Henry Dunbar's son-in-law, William Chamberlain. Still further 
west, on the north side, is a small house, where lives widow Daly, once 
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North from Dunbar's corners, our first stop is at the house of Aaron 
Dunbar, and here it was my good fortune to meet Henry Dunbar, the man 
after whom the corners were named, and whom I find, despite his ninety 
years, a treasure house of early Eose data. He was born in Dutchess 
county, and came, with his parents, to the town of Galeu in 1809 or '10. 
There they died. Since his twenty-third year he has lived in Rose. He 
was first on the present Adam Crisler place, which he took from the 
office. In 1837 he took this place from the same office, and has been here 
since. There were at first some 156 acres. He was an actual pioneer, 
and his memory of events, in the long ago, is very vivid — stating months 
and days of that period with no hesitation. For instance, it was the 27th 
day of January that he came to these then unbroken roads. " Yes," he 
says, "there was nothing but woods here. There was plenty of game. I 
once followed a flock of deer two days, and shot four of them. Just 
below here, where the railroad crosses the road, Andrew J. Sebriug shot a 
big wolf. There were two of them, and he killed the larger one, and got a 
bounty for his scalp. My hearing is poor, but my eyesight is pretty good 
for a man who has burned as many pits of charcoal as I have. You know 
that is awfully smoky business, and it hurts a man's eyes." His wife was 
Catharine Wager, who died in 1870, at the age of seventy years. His 
home now is with his son, Aaron. ( Died February 13, 1893.) The 
children were : John, once living just to the north ; Levi, who married 
Lucy Day, and lives in Huron ; Xelson married Hannah Weeks, and also 
lives in Huron ; Aaron married Mary J. Burt of Sodus, and has two 
children, Benjamin and Cora ; Rhoda became Mrs. Wm. Chamberlain, 
and is dead ; Melissa is Mrs. Chas. Knox, and is the sole dweller iu the 
house to the east of the corners, and yet in this district. Mr. Chamberlain 
was killed by the running away of a team of horses. The original Dunbar 
log house stood about where the present house is. 

John Dunbar's late home is found next north. He married Harriet 
Davenport, who died thirty years ago. Their only child, Emmaette, 
married Munson Seager, after whose decease she kept house for her father. 
Her children are : Harriet, who married a Pierce of Huron, and Nellie, at 
home. Formerly he ran threshing machines, "portable saw-mills, and, 
obviously, has known what labor is. He had been particularly unfortunate 
in certain accidents, which had crippled him considerably. His place is a 
part of his father's original purchase. John Dunbar died June 11th, 1890, 
aged about sixty-five years. He was buried at York's corners. 

No finer farm buildings can be found in this part of Rose than those that 
are nearly opposite, yet a little further north. Here is the home of Alvah 
Jewell. He was born in Dutchess county. His father, Isaac, who had 
married Charity Shaw, came here more than seventy years since. He died 
in Lyons. Alvah' s wife was Susan W^ager, a daughter of John. Their 



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children are : Henry, who married Sivilla Winget, and is on his father-in- 
law's place in Huron ; Malinda, deceased, married Allen Eobinson, of 
Huron ; Alanson married Mary Coats, and died in 1873 at the age of 23 
years, and his son, Franklin, lives with Alvah ; Elizabeth is Mrs. Thomas 
Hewson ; Franklin married Miranda Barrett. Mr. J. has 170 acres. Of 
these, he bought twenty-eight of Philip Marquette, forty from his brother, 
Barney, and eighty-two from General Adams, who took from the office. 
On the B. Jewell place, opposite, there was formerly a house. Mr. J. is a 
Eepublican in politics and Methodistic in religious preferences. His post 
oflace is Alton. A few steps to the north is a house where Henry Jewell 
formerly lived, but which he now lets to a tenant. 

Opposite is the home of Gilbert Brown, and when I find that he was a 
fellow company man with me in the Ninth Heavy Artillery, he seems very 
much like an old friend. He was badly wounded at Snicker's Gap, at the 
time Early was trying to get away after his sortie on Washington. Gilbert 
was born in the town of Marion, and married Arloa Adams of that town. 
Their children are Clara L. and Elroy G., both at home. Mr. B. bought of 
Thomas Hewson, who moved to Sodus. He bought of Aaron Winget, and 
the latter took from the oflice. The house was built by Hewson. Mr. 
Brown is a zealous cultivator of berries and has a large dry house. He 
also has a mint still. There are eleven acres in his place. In religion he 
is a Disciple. 

The house standing out so prominently on the north side of the way, 
long stood in the name of the widow Shannon. There must have been 
many of this name here and to the north, years ago, since the name is 
common in the York's corners burial ground. Samuel Shannon, in solitary 
bachelorhood, lives on the paternal acres. He has nicely repaired the house, 
and it is too bad that with so many unmarried women in town he does not 
take some one to his heart and home. Perhaps he has his reasons. (Died 
April 8, 1892.) He was a good soldier in the Ninth Heavy Artillery, as 
was also his brother, Theodore, who died in 1867. 

To reach the next house, we shall have to run down a long lane, past an 
old barn belonging to Shannon, to the end of the lane, where we shall find 
the residence of the widow of John Seager. She was Sarah York of Huron, 
a sister of the North Eose maltster. Her children are : Elizabeth, who is 
Mrs. John Hill, of North Eose; Sarah, who married George Ball, of the 
same place, and George, Warren, Norman, Oscar, and Jennie. This hold- 
ing has had some mutations. It is first found under the name of Jacob 
Wager, and this was more than thirty years since. He had at least one 
son, who died long since. In old age. Jacob went to live with William 
Wager, near Glenmark. Also some part of his old age was passed with 
Mrs. Ehoda Chamberlain. After Wager comes the name of Joanna 
Phillips, who sold to the widow of John Seager. The latter died just west 



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of Dunbar's corners. There are twenty-five acres in the farm. The old 
house in which Jacob Wager lived is still standing, an isolated relic. 

Still further back, and still more inaccessible, for we must follow a 
private way from Henry Jewell's house to reach it, is a quite pretty place, 
held and occupied by John Austin. 

Coming back to the road and taking a glance to the north, into Huron, 
where we may see the elegant buildings of Lumau Barrett, now occupied 
by his son, Gardner, we retrace our way, having thoughts of Green Erin 
aroused as we pass the home of Shannon, since everybody knows that no 
finer stream than that flows through the meadows of Ireland. 

From Dunbar's corners we ride east, passing the home of Charles Knox, 
the son-in-law of Henry Dunbar, and when I pass, I find Alvah Jewell 
engaged in clearing up new land, a labor which took so much of the time of 
the ancestors here. The pioneer on heavily timbered land had experiences 
that the dwellers on the prairies know nothing of. It is, however, sad to 
think of the value destroyed in getting our laud ready for cultivation. If 
the great trees thus cut off could only have been held for subsequent use, 
instead of being piled in great heaps for burning, what a storehouse there 
would be for coming time, but that is not the way. The growth of many, 
many years are felled, rolled together and burned. Fires are kindled 
around the stumps, and seed is planted at first in what seems to be very 
uncongenial soil, but great crops have been raised thus. Land that will 
support great trees will grow immense grain. 

The school-house which the York settlement children seek, is found by 
following the road by Alvah Jewell's, just beyond the Barrett place, on 
four corners, known as York's. Near here resides Benjamin Winget, and 
close by, on the north side of the street, is the temjile of learning. At any 
rate, it represents the altitude of knowledge to which the most of the boys 
and the girls of the settlement attain. The York part of the name comes 
from dwellers in Huron, though there are several women of the name 
married in Rose, and John York lives in North Rose. Back of Mr. 
Winget' s is one of the finest chestnut groves in the state. I have never 
seen a more beautiful collection of these stately trees anywhere. It was a 
happy thought to allow them to remain and to thrive thus, forming such 
a charming background to the school-house, and such a playground for the 
children. Bryant's forest hymn is suggested at once : 

" Father, thy hand hath reared these venerable cohmms." 



234 ROSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 

SCHOOL DISTRICT No. 1.— " Glenmaek." 

September 3—17, 1891. 

This section was well named. Frequently, names are misnomers, but 
there is no want of application to this up and down region. Sodus bay 
has many approaches, many streams running down from the interior. 
These have worn away the laud so that deep glens lead down to the main 
waters. It is possible that, in remote times, the lake itself occupied a 
higher level, and that these frequent gulleys represent the bays and inlets 
of the past. If so, where the farmer to-day raises corn and potatoes, 
immense fishes once swam in glorious freedom. We shudder at what 
would happen were the lake to again rise and claim its own. What a 
submerging of peaceful homes and fertile farms. Just at present, there 
seems more danger of the still further retirement of the lake. Had General 
Adams' dream of a Sodus canal been realized, and had the Sodus branch 
railroad ever been built, our glen-marked region had been to-day much 
more than the ragged, scattering hamlet that it is. Thomas' creek, whose 
sandy bed formed so considerable a part of the general's scheme, here has an 
exceedingly rocky bottom. In fact, I think, at the mill site in Glenmark, 
there is a cataract, where for untold ages, the waters have plunged over the 
outcropping limestone. There is not another place in the town where the 
layers, or strata, are thus developed. The gorge through which the water 
runs after passing the falls, is a deep, brier-lined chasm, whose depths can 
hardly be appreciated from the road which winds along the verge, the 
traveler protected by a rail judiciously placed between him and the 
abrupt descent. Many a Rose citizen has grown to maturity without 
dreaming that his native town has broken scenery as rare and engaging as 
that which people with well-lined purses travel many miles to see. These 
same people ride over dusty roads to the Bluffs, but they omit this wooded, 
glen-pierced country, so varied and picturesque. Its beauties and varieties 
must be seen to be appreciated. 

There is not the least attempt at regularity in the roads about this 
district. They have simply adapted themselves to the glens and streams. 
In fact, there was no other way to get about. The three roads that lead 
into the district are merged just below the falls and follow the creek north- 
ward. This final gulley reminds one of the neck of a jug, for through it 
all travel and all water seeking the lake must pass. 

Our entrance to Glenmark shall be along the road which leads eastward 
from Dunbar's corners, and our first farm will be at the home of David 
Johnson. The line which divides the Glenmark and York settlement dis- 
tricts just misses Mr. J.'s house, but he is in the eastern neighborhood. 
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Artillery, during the Rebellion. There are thirty-five acres in the farm, 
which he bought of William P. Angle, who bought from the office. The 
latter went west some years since. Angle started the house which Johnson 
completed. It is at this point that the road turns abruptly to the south, 
though it runs thus only a short way. To the southeast, the woods once 
standing there afforded shelter to camp meetings in the times when piety, 
if not more fervent, at least was more demonstrative. Mr. Johnson's wife 
was Naomi Andrus, also of Huron. Their children's names are : Jennie, 
who married, first, Herbert Ackerman, second, a Mr. Burch, and Eilla, the 
wife of Kingsley Clum, who came from Galeu to Rose. The Clums live in a 
house somewhat back from the Johnsons. Mr. C. is of German extraction. 
They have two sons — Augustus and Claudius. 

The next place reached, as we follow the eastern bend of the road, when 
it turns again, is the home of Calvin Daly. He bought of Samuel Osborn, 
who took from John Weeks, now of Xorth Rose, and he from Theodore 
Shannon. The latter followed Charles Angle, whose possessing must have 
been among the very first. 

Then comes the home of Joseph Andrews, whose sou-iu-law, Asa Potter, 
lives with him. 

Across the railroad, out in the open field to the south, is the place owned 
by Oscar Weed of Huron. He bought of Abram L. Barnes. When this 
was covered with heavy timber, Eron X. Thomas owned it, and he sold to 
Robert Catchpole and others, who cut off the wood and then sold the land. 
ZSTear at hand was the old Abel Dixon home, where he ended his own life 
through insanity, on account of the railroad cutting through his farm. 
This was in 1871. Lemau Ellsworth is our next neighbor, or, at least, the 
place stands in his name, and his son-in-law, James Calkins, lives here. 
Mr. E.'s wife was a Hufiman, of the family once living near Xorth Rose. 

Still progressing toward the northeast, we reach the place whose occu- 
pants have been sober for many years, for here Jonathan Sober, a native of 
Pennsylvania, came many years since. There are fifty acres in the farm. 
Mr. S. died several years since. Of their children, Huldah, deceased, 
married Albert Baker ; Mahala married George Jewell of Galen ; James, 
having married Kate Myers, is in Sodus ; Lewis married Alice Wager ; 
Albert, who married Lydia Eldridge, went west and died ; Eugene, a son 
of Lewis, lives with his grandmother. The wife of Jonathan Sober was 
Mary Garlick, the oldest own sister of Henry. Mr. S. took the place from 
the office, though it is probable that there were contract settlers before 
him. (Mrs. Sober died February 27, 1893.) 

William M. Green, a native of Galen, is found next, on the east side. 
His holding of five acres runs back to one of the glens for which the 
region is noted, and it is cjuite irregular in surface. For twenty-five years 
Mr. Green has earned an honest living on and from his glebe. He built 



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the house, having bought of David Johnsou. Mr. Green is a brother of 
the George H. Green who was found in the Griswold district. The Green 
iamily, of which these two brothers are representatives, moved to Huron, 
and there the parents died. Early in life, Mr. Green wandered into Eose, 
and there he found his wife, Lydia Marsh, a daughter of Amos, who lived 
so long in District No. .5, or Town's. Their children are : Elmer, now in 
Glenmark ; Miss Lelia, at home, and Alice, the wife of Marsden Crisler, of 
the Valley. (Lelia Green was married June 29, 1892, to Emory J. Weeks 
of Eose. They have a daughter, Eva L. Mrs. Green died June 16, 1893.) 
Toward the north, and having a substantial aspect, is the old Garlick 
homestead. To-day it is the abode of the widow of Walter Messenger, 
who died March 30th, 1890. This family is of Sodus lineage, where both 
husband and wife, who was Jane Jewell, were born. They came hither in 
1874. Their children are all married. Polly is Mrs. John Shepardson, of 
Sodus ; Sarah married Sidney Garlick, a son of Eli, and lives nest north ; 
Louise is the wife of Seth Woodard, of the Covell neighborhood ; Nellie 
married Darwin Miner, west ot the Valley, and Walter married Ida J. 
Seager, and lives in Huron. The house dates from William Garlick. The 
original Garlick log house stood considerably further back from the 
road, where cherry trees now are. Mr. Messenger bought from William 
Chaddock, who traded his mill property at the falls with Henry Garlick 
for this. In the hands of sons and father, this was Garlick land for many 
years. Back of Garlick was Bacon, who followed the Lumberts, a family 
having numerous representatives, but very little real ownership. They, 
with other equally irresponsible people, were, more than fifty years since, 
prevailed upon to accept a free trip to the west. A canal boat was 
chartered at the expense of several public-spirited citizens, and some sixty 
or seventy people of both sexes, and of all ages, were loaded on and given 
this ride toward the setting sun. Save in a few cases where the adage, 
"A bad sixpence will return," was illustrated, the riddance was effectnal. 
I suppose the donors of that excursion laughed heartily for years over the 
feelings of the communities among which these bouquets of Eoses were 
scattered. The Garlick genealogy was given at length in the description 
of Noi'th Eose. 

The Traher place is next encountered. Here lives Ellen Traher, whose 
first husband was John Howard, who, a member of the Ninth Heavy 
Artillery, died in a southern prison. She purchased ten acres of the old 
Converse farm, and has a small though ample home. (Her second husband, 
Harry Traher, died last spring, having long been an invalid.) 

The road thence, for some distance, is down a steep decline, but the 
traveler who likes variety will be abundantly pleased with what he finds 
here. The face of nature is seamed and gashed with cuts so deep that he 
thinks himself lucky in getting along at all. At the foot of the hill, at 



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the left, is the district school-house. Unhappy, barefooted children are 
puzzling over their tasks as I pass, and are wondering what schools are 
made for. We begin to take bitter doses early in life, that we may be 
happier and better later. The original site of the school-house was just 
about on the line, in the narrow place, where the road and stream lead 
out into Huron. The old foundations were visible on John Lovejoy's 
farm, when he came into possession. 

The home of Mr. Lovejoy is built on the hill-side, and he has irregulari- 
ties of surface wherever he looks. Mr. L. is the son of Daniel, whose 
home we found in the Lake district, on the corner. His wife was Eliza- 
beth Jane Weeks, born in Eindge, N. H. Her father, Addison Weeks, 
came to Eose in 1854. His wife was Eliza Wellington, and their home was 
opposite the present Lovejoy abode. Another daughter is Mrs. Myron 
Lamb of No. Eose. The Weeks family of New Hampshire has long been 
one of the best in that state. To the Lovejoys were born these children : 
Sylvia, who married Frank Soper, of the Valley, and who will be met 
there; EfBe, the wife of Nelson Bush, and Addison, who married Huldah 
Andrews, and is at home with his father. Addison's children are Frank 
and Ida. (Also, 1893, Myron J. and Addison Eay.) Mr. Lovejoy built 
his house, having bought his place of Oscar Weed. The farm is a part of 
the old Converse estate, and has fifty-two acres in it. 

Dwelling nearly opposite is Leman Ellsworth, who occupies the old 
Addison Weeks place. The house has a water-edged garden back of it. 
Near this was the carding machine, maintained for many years by Horace 
Converse and his son. In the long ago, when wool was spun and woven 
at home, it was necessary to have the fleece worked into long, uniform 
rolls for the housewife to reduce to yarn. Then the carding machine was 
busy. Now that is relegated to the great factory, where spinning and 
weaving have become lost arts. Mr. Ellsworth was born in Phelps, and 
his only child is Alice, who married James Calkins, living on the farm to 
the southwest. They have one child, Eva. 

The road and the stream are comrades as they lead out to the north. • 
At the left is the hill-side belonging to John Lovejoy. At the right are the 
lowlands of Ishmael Gardner. While the Eose part of the district is 
ended, it will not be amiss to follow on for a while. After a short dis- 
tance, the road forks, to lead up and out in diverse ways. Should we go 
toward the east, we will be led along the darkest, most dangerous road in 
the town. It winds along the steep, densely-wooded hill-side, having on 
one side the descent so steep and deep that trees, growing in the bottom 
of the glen, have their tops on a level with the road. Following this to 
its exit from the woods, the traveler will find himself near the home of 
Harvey Barnes, the old Catchpole farm, and in the North Eose district. 
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horse at high speed down this road, till, by some mishap, the whole 
equipage was launched over the verge and the man was Instantly killed: 
another of the accidents that have from time to time carried sorrow to 
certain homes in Rose. 

The west fork of the road carries us up a steep and winding way, pass- 
ing several houses belonging to Oscar Weed. By the time we reach his 
home, the road will have swung around to the west. The large mansion 
of Mr. Weed is on the north side and is surrounded by shrubbery and 
trees. Close by are acres of fruit trees, usually the source of large returns. 
Mr. Weed has made the growing and drying of fruit a specialty. The 
Weed family came to Wayne county, originally, from Long Island. From 
it, is said to have come the famous Thurlow, so long the arbiter of New 
York politics. Oscar Weed was born in Galen, and his wife is Rebecca, 
nee Watson, also of Galen. They came to this place in 1850, and to the 
150 acres of the old Peter Paine farm he has added others, till now 
there are between two and three hundred acres therein. This elegant 
house he built in 1864. When constructed, there were numerous 
children at home to make merry its halls and chambers. The mutations 
of time have removed the most of these from the roof tree, so 
that now the Weeds find their habitation considerably larger than their 
needs require. These children are : Watson, who was graduated from 
Cornell in 1878, and is now a Unitarian minister in Ware, Mass. (now, 
Scituate); Addison, a graduate from Cornell in 1879, is a farmer in New 
Hartford, Oneida Co.; Mary, also a graduate from Cornell, is a teacher; 
Gerhardus, who died in 1878, at the age of eighteen years; Oscar Dillwyn, 
at home ; and Ruth, who died at the age of sixteen years, in 1882, while 
visiting her brother, Watson, in Dakota. The latter married Frances 
Wright, of New Hartford, and was preaching in the west at the time of 
his sister's death. Addison married Ida Cleveland, also of New Hartford. 
It is noteworthy that both these sons have been the parents of twins. 

Returning to the point where the road from York settlement runs into 
this, we shall find, just south of the bifurcation, the store and residence of 
Albert E. Ellis. Mr. E.'s wife is Mary, a daughter of the Barnum whom 
we found in the extreme north end of the Covell district, but who, owing 
to the death of his wife, lived, till his death, October 26th, 1890, with Mrs. 
Ellis. The store and home are neat and attractive and betoken thrift. 

The site is one of the most noted in the town ; for this is where the old 
Converse Hotel was located, and near here were the shops and mills which 
once made this an exceedingly busy hollow. The complete genesis of this 
locality at this late date is almost hopeless, but I will do the best I can. 
The name of Converse was once very common here, coming from Horace, 
who migrated hither from Pittsford, near Rochester. While a deal of 
business seemed to be done here, a class of people was called into the 



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neighborhood whose presence gave all honest people much uneasiness. 
For instance, one man stole a horse from a clergyman. For this he re- 
ceived a sentence of four years in the Auburn prison. After his release, 
he became a respectable citizen in a western state. Visits from ofBcers of 
the law were frequent and necessary, and Rose farmers must have learned 
that rural quiet is vastly preferable to activity associated, as this too 
often is, with vice. Converse managed a blacksmith shop, built two saw- 
mills, conducted the carding machine, maintained a grocery, built and ran 
a hotel. This latter structure, after his death, was allowed to fall into 
decay. Mr. Converse's wife's name was Abigail. They had three sons 
and one daughter : Harriet, who married Charles Angle and went west ; 
George married widow Spsan Alford ; Henry married Rebecca Angle ; 
Charles succeeded his father in the business, and finally died in 1861, at 
the age of 47 years. It is more than probable that much which was laid 
at the door of these dwellers in the Glen, they were not guilty of, for the 
old adage, "Give a dog a bad name and send him to the d — 1," applies 
fully in such cases. It is likely, too, that many instances told to-day are 
quite legendary. 

James Van Auken built the carding mill and he sold his right to the 
Sodus Canal Co., from whose possession the place passed to Horace 
Converse. James Van A. was a brother of Simeon, and it is probable 
that he was the earliest owner. He joined the march to the west. How 
many other owners there may have been to date I can not state. 

The road is narrow, and on the side of the glen, till we pass through and 
find, at the right, the place whose dwellers, in order, would afford a long 
list. Thomas Farnsworth, the latest tenant, was killed, as just noted. 
Mr. F. was born in England. His wife's maiden name was Julia A. 
Dunham. He bought the place of Sidney Garlick. The small building in 
which Ira Mirick once kept a store is still standing and yet indicates the 
purjioses for which it was built. Near this place, on the hill, is where 
some of the first comers buried their dead, and among others Simeon Van 
Auken's first wife, Olive. 

A number of small holdings are found as we pursue the road southward. 
At first, at the left, is an old blacksmith shop, where Eli Garlick shod 
horses. His home was the small house just beyond, now occupied by 
Christian Fink, formerly living south of Covell's. The road goes through 
a deep cutting and climbs quite an altitude until it emerges on the plain 
above. At the right is the place where the Marquettes and their descend- 
ants have lived for many years. Daniel, the first one, once lived further 
south on this road, nearly opposite the home of Seth Woodward. 

The last farm in the district, on this road, is that of James French, who 
may be found on the west side of the road, just before reaching the railroad 
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and came to this place twenty years ago, and bought of John Shear. He 
married Sarah Bunyea, who was born in Wisconsin, of French extraction. 
She is a relative of Mrs. Ishmael Gardner, of North Eose, and of Chelsea 
Deming, of Huron. They have three children — Temperance, Ernest and 
Wallace — all at home, though Temperance is a teacher. There are fifty 
acres in the farm. (One of the sons is now in railroad employ in Oswego.) 

Coming back to the point where this road emerged from the glen, we 
may turn to the east. In doing so, it will be necessary to cross a bridge 
which spans the creek just before it falls over its rocky verge. South of 
the bridge, there long exisited a dam, which retained the waters of Thomas' 
creek, thus affording power for the mills below it. (Since rebuilt.) Simeon 
Van Auken was the builder of the dam and grist-mill. He came from 
Junius, and his wife was Olive Whitney, a sister of Seth Whitmore's wife. 
The Whitmores — Seth and Benjamin — were mill men from an early date. 
Mr. Van Auken married for his second wife the widow Wright, nee Pot- 
wine, and she, too, died here. The Van Aukens were Presbyterians. They 
long since moved to Michigan and died. They sold to Dr. Peter Valentine, 
and he to Ira Mirick, who maintained a variety of interests. He sold to 
the Canal Co., from which Henry Young rented. This man lives now in 
Ontario. He had a son, Israel. 

John Brown, a native of Pennsylvania, married Eveline Tindall, a sister 
of Chas. H. and "Parm," of the Valley. He held the mill for some time, 
but finally went to Michigan. Before doing so, he was for a while in 
Victor, in company with Brownell Wilbur, once of Eose. The Brown 
children were : Charles, who married Celia Tracy, of Huron, and now lives 
near Jackson, Mich., and with whom the father died; Juliette and Alfred, 
both of whom are dead. William Chaddock sold to Henry Garlick, or rather 
traded with him, and he sold to L. E. Ellis, who came hither from Tompkins 
county. He was formerly a Protestant Methodist minister. He married 
Elizabeth L. Yale of Cortland county. Their children are: Albert E., 
already met further north, and Lydia, who is at home. Mr. Ellis was a 
member of Battery A, 3d New Y'ork Artillery, daring the War. The resi- 
dence of the family is a very pleasant place, on the north side of the road, 
the same having shared the changes which have come to the mill property. 

A private way leads towards the south, along the right bank of Thomas' 
creek, and in addition to a saw-mill we shall find the home of George T. 
Ellis. He is a son of Algernon, an Englishman. His wife was Clara 
Wolff, of Eose, and he bought of Wesley Burns, now of Alton. He pur- 
chased from George Correll, who bought of Ira Lathrop, who came here 
after selling his farm to the south, to Seymour Covell. 

Still following this by-path, we gradually mount to the level above and 
find the abode of Abram Doremus, born in Mentz, Cayugo Co. He once 
lived where Frank Weeks is, in the York neighborhood. He married 



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Betsey Featherly, and their children are : George, in Jackson, Mich.; Lydia, 
the wife of "William B. Hill, of North Rose; Adaline, the wife of Douglas 
Colborn, of the Valley; Jennette, the wife of Darwin Gillet, of Huron, 
and the twins — Helen and Ellen — who married the twin Briggs — Lyman 
and Luman. It should be said that these daughters, Helen and Ellen, are 
the oldest children. This is the old Featherly homestead; and in addition 
to Betsey there was Lydia Jane, who married Horace Morey. George 
Featherly was a son of John, one of the most noted settlers of the 
town. His boyhood's home was where the present Hetta abode is. His 
wife was Susan Kinkaid, and they bought this Doremus place of James 
Aldrich. The parents died years since, and this place of fifty-eight acres 
passed to Doremus, who repaired the house. This and the farm beyond 
are more isolated than any other places in the town. 

Still pursuing a private way, and crossing the track of the E., W. & O. 
R. R., we find the home of Horace Morey, who married Lydia J. Feather- 
ly. His farm he took from the land office. The Morey children are : John, 
who married Rachel Smalley, and lives in North Rose, and Warren, also 
in North Rose, who married Carrie Desmond. 

Coming back to the road, we turn to the right, and leaving at the corner 
the home of Mr. Ellis, so long a part of the mill belongings, we climb out 
of the glen. Years ago the table land beyond marked the beginning of the 
North Rose district, but in later times the dwellers in the first two abodes 
belong to Glenmark. The very first home is that in which lives Daniel 
Jeffers, a son of Nathan, and the place is the old Pardon Jones farm. 
Note of this was made in the North Rose series, but since then I have 
learned that the Nicholas Stansell who early settled there was a noted man 
in his day ; a companion of John Featherly, whose sister he married. 
These two men, with William Stansell, came to Lyons in 1789 ; the settlers 
whose coming entitled the county to a centennial in 1889. They located 
first on what was afterward the Dorsey farm, near Alloway. There was 
nothing in the way of hardship and privation that these pioneers did not 
suffer. William Stansell was with Sullivan in his expedition against the 
Indians in 1779, and the lay of the land charmed hira then. He was the 
leader of the expedition. It is traditional in the family that Featherly was 
a soldier in the Revolution also. Restless as the waves of the sea, these 
early hunters worked up into this section, and the name of Stansell is con- 
nected with this place, though it seems reasonable that he should have 
been before rather than after James Colborn, 1st. 

With the farm on the south side of the road, the name of John A. Hetta 
has been connected for more than thirty years. He was born in Germany 
and found a wife in Mary A. Lamb, a daughter of John, of North Rose. 
They have only one child— Etha Jane — recently married to Irving J. Lane, 
of the Jeffers neighborhood. Mr. Hetta has imparted to all his surrouml- 
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iujrs many indications of the thrift so characteristic of the Germans. It 
was to this ph\ce that the pioneer. John Featlierly, came when the century 
•was young. It is jirobable that he was of Herkimer or Jlontgomei-y county 
derivation. His wife was ^Mary Claus, the same nanie we have found 
Anglicized as Closs. In his way hither, he had lived in Lyons and 
Phelps. His final remove was to the cemetery in York's corners. The 
children were Frederick, who married and died at Three Eiver Point in 
Oswego county. Then followed George, met in the Doremus place; John, 
who went to Michigan ; Joseph, killed, when young, by a sleigh tongue ; 
Betsey, who moved to Cattaraugus county, and Catherine, who married 
William Baker, and once lived where the Sobers were reared, in the w^est 
part of the district. 

DISTRICT XO. 1.— "The Valley." 

November 5, 1S91— March 3, 1892. 

Pakt I. 

Our rambles in Rose have fully skirted the town, and now we approach 
the heart. For this purpose we will pass toward the west from District 
Xo. 6, or what is called Stewart's, and, passing the famous spring at the 
joot of the hill, we will pause first at the stone house on the north side of the 
road, for many years the property of Joel Lee. Of him and his, extended 
mention was made in the article ending District Xo. 6. It is on this 
location that one Lincoln is said to have squatted : but his happiness was 
disturbed by the frogs, that, to his fancy, were perpetually saying : ''Don't 
you want to buy here, Lincoln?'" This finally drove him out, when he 
sought a home further west, and on, let us hope, higher ground. Chester 
EUinwood afterward owned, and from him possession passed to his oldest 
son. Ensign. The latter built the stone house, the material for whose 
outer courses he drew from Lake Ontario. Henry Robinson of the Lake 
district was the boss mason in the construction, thus assuring the character 
of the work. The house was begun in 1841 and finished in 1842. Ensign 
was twice married, first to Catharine Rifenbach of Newark, and, second, 
to :Mrs. Egbert Brant of Lyons. She, Sarah J. Holmes, was born in 
Salisbury, Conn. By his first wife, he had two daughters, Jennie and 
Alice Irene. The latter died in infancy, and the foi-mer lived to be a 
beautiful, accomitlished young woman of eighteen years. In October, the 
2lith day, 1889, ^ir. EUinwood was instantly killed by a train of cars in 
Newark. He had come down from Rochester, but, by mistake, took a 
train which ran no further than Newark. There he was killed while 
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accident happened on his birthday, he being seventy-one years old on that 
day. Mr. Ellinwood, for many years, was one of the most noted teachers 
of vocal music in Wayne county. An excellent singer himself, he succeeded 
admirably in imparting his knowledge to others. After leaving the farm, 
he lived in several places— as Newark, Eochester and Wolcott. I met 
him last in August, 1889. I took the Clyde and Wolcott stage as it passed 
the road which enters the post road just east of Ensign Wade's. Mr. 
Ellinwood was aboard, having taken the stage from his brother Chester's, 
east of Stewart's comers. Everj' inch of the land through which we were 
riding was familiar to him. As boy and man, he had played and worked 
in every field. As we rode by the Ellinwood burial ground, he leaned out 
and held the spot in sight as long as it could be seen. I did not mention 
the subject of his thoughts, but I well knew that in his mind were the 
wife of his youth, the child that died in infancy, and the daughter who 
was borne there just as she was budding into womanhood. Into the 
privacy of such reflections, I would be the last to intrude. Little did I 
think that before the snows of winter fell, the husband and father would 
slumber Ijeside his loved ones. 

On the south side of the way and some rods to the west, is the abode of 
Morris Wager, who came hither from the preemption road in the spring 
of 1880. His wife was, in girlhood, Ella .Silver of Sodus. Their children 
are: Rose; Iva; Charles; Myrtle, and Willie, all at home. (Eose has 
since become the wife of Wm. D. Hickok.) Mr. W. makes a specialty of 
raspberry culture. 

My earliest recollections of the place are coupled with the name of Samuel 
B. Hoffman, who had married the widow of Seth Brainard. She was an 
Ellinwood, Louise, a sister of Geo. W. and Orlando. The Brainards were 
from Oneida county, and were exemplary members of the Eose ilethodist 
Episcopal Church. Mr. B. died in 1842. He was the builder of the 
house now standing. Mr. Hoffman was also a Methodist and prominent 
in the councils of the church. Mr. Brainard was a pioneer, though he 
died in his .38th year. 

A few rods farther west and we find the road leading south, forming 
the western boundary of Mr. Wager's farm. Men seventy years of age 
can rememljer when the trees were cut off to prepare for the road. The 
trees were used in building a log house for Elder Smith, the Baptist 
minister, the same being located on the old Valorus Ellinwood farm, or 
where Henry Decker now lives. 

On both sides of the road are fields belonging to Ensign D. Wade. He 
followed his father, Dudley, on these acres. The father and family were 
named in full in the account of District Xo. 7. Ensign, as there stated, 
married Kendrick Sheffield's oldest daughter, Lucy. They have two 
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244 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 

day attain to the reputation that his father had in Rose and vicinity. He 
certainly will if he will only add auctioneering to his vocation. Before 
Dudley Wade's occupation, this was for many years the Chester Ellinwood 
farm. He built the house and painted it red. It was changed very little 
in his day, and here his large family was reared. His wife was Sophronia 
Allen, a daughter of Ezra, of Butler, who had married a sister of Benj. 
Kellogg. There were several Allen girls, and, in those early days, extra 
girls sought service in families where they were not so numerous, so 
Chester courted his wife in the kitchen of the old Blaine log house, north 
of Stewart's corners. When they went to keeping house, it was in a 
primitive structure, near the present home of John Lyman, in the neigh- 
borhood then called "Peth." This was away back in the twenties, and 
he carried fruit trees on his back from the Daniel Roe place in Butler to 
set out here. It is probable that he was born in Vermont, and there he 
learned the trade of a tanner, at which he worked to some extent after 
coming to Wayne county. He was a soldier in the War of 1812. This 
corner farm was bought of Samuel Southwick. On the south side of the 
road, it included the cemetery lot and joined the Fuller farm on the west. 
The original log house was near the southwest corner of this burial ground. 
It caught fire in the early times and smouldered away two days before it 
was put out. Finally it was taken down and relaid, near where the Wade 
house now is. In those days there were 140 acres, extending, on the east, 
to the foot of the hill on Joel Lee's place. The children born to Chester 
Ellinwood were : Ensign Warren ; Charlotte M., who became the wife of 
Gibson Center, of Butler, and is now in Weedsport; Lucy Lemira, who 
married Peter B. Decker, from Newark, and lived in the Valley. Her 
sons, Charles Ensign and Franklin Pierce, died in infancy ; her daughter, 
Ellen Irene, married in Washington, Penn. Mrs. Decker died in 1852, at 
the age of twenty-eight years. Mr. Decker's second wife was a niece of 
the famous school teacher, Abigail Bunce. Mr. Ellinwood's third daughter, 
Mary, is the wife of Dr. G. C. Childs, long a noted physician in Clyde ; 
Charles Judson married Helen F. Gildersleeve, of Galen, and died in 1879, 
in Grand Rapids, Mich., leaving two children, Frederick and Dolly. 
Ezra Chester, the youngest son, married Mary E. Phillips, of Newark, 
and, some years since, located on the old Wisner or Center place, east of 
Stewart's corners. His oldest child, Irene P., died in 1884, at the age of 
fourteen years. His remaining children are : Mary Louise, John Clark, 
Chester and Robert Ensign. If there was one characteristic in these 
Ellinwoods more prominent than another, it was their love for music. 
As boys and girls, men and women, they excelled in song. Of Lucy 
Lemira it is said that on her death bed she picked out those whom she 
wished to sing at her funeral, not wishing, she said, to have any break- 
downs over her. Late in life, the elder Ellinwood moved from the farm. 



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and died in 1877, at the age of eighty-four years. His wife had died 
eleven years before. The younger Chester lived here also for a time. 

Turning to the north and passing the evaporator of Ensign Wade, we 
shall find, on the west side of the road, all that is left of the home of 
Samuel Ellis Ellinwood ; in the town he was generally known as Ellis. 
He came hither from Oneida county, an uncle of Geo. W. Ellinwood, and 
for several seasons taught school, among other places, at Stewart's cor- 
ner. His wife was Submit Southwick, a daughter of Samuel S., one of 
the pioneers of the town. For many years they dwelt here, prospering, 
and uniformly possessing the highest esteem of all who knew them. They 
were among the earliest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 
Eose. Their home passed through the usual changes, from primary sim- 
plicity to the comfort of later days. They had only one son — David — who 
for many years dwelt here with his parents. The elder Ellinwoods died 
in 1879 and 1866 respectively, and lie now in the Eose cemetery. They 
were first buried in the Ellinwood ground, but when later their grand- 
daughter, Adele, erected a monument to them and to her parents, their 
remains were taken up and reburied. David Ellinwood was long 
prominent in local affairs, a man who liked a good horse and liked to 
drive him. He married Mary Jane Jones, of the Valley, a sister of Mrs. 
•'Ham-' Closs. She was an excellent lady, well worthy of the esteem in 
which she was held. They had two children — George, who is now in 
Eacine, Wis., and Harriet Adele, who is a teacher in Toledo, Ohio. She 
was the generous and filial giver of the mortuary tribute standing in the 
Eose cemetery. David Ellinwood and his wife went west, and died there 
in 1883 and 1884 respectively. 

There is one more house in this district toward the north, that of Theo- 
dore McWharf. Him and his I discussed at length in the No. 3. The 
house was built on lands purchased from Ellis Ellinwood by James 
Campbell, who died in 1869. His widow, Eleanor, lived in it till she sold 
to Mr. McWharf. She resided in the Valley till October, 1889, when she 
died at the age of seventy-five. She had long been an object of tender 
care and sympathy to the Methodist Episcopal Society of Eose, of which 
she was a member. 

On the leaving of David Ellinwood for the west, he sold to Thomas 
Cullen, a native of Waterford county, Ireland. His wife was Mary Dunn. 
Mr. C. died in 1884, but the widow and children are still on the farm. At 
the time of David E.'s selling, he occupied the house at the top of the hill 
as we go west from Ensign Wade's. It is proper, in passing, to remark on 
the excellent care manifested in maintaining the Ellinwood cemetery, as 
nothing speaks better or louder the character of a people than their care 
for the resting places of their dead. From the ancestor worshipping 
Chinese to the dead neglecting Turk, the distance is a long one. While 



246 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 

we may not approve the Chinese extreme, we ought to carefully shun 
the Turkish level. The CuUens, after buying the farm, which included 
both the old Bllinwood and Fuller places, instituted some changes. The 
barns on the north farm were moved up to a point nearly opposite the 
house, and the Ellinwood house was relegated to the use of tenants, a 
condition that can only have one end, viz., decay and ruin. Nature 
seemed to object to the new departure, for one day lightning struck the 
newly-placed structures and destroyed them. Since then a very large and 
convenient barn has been erected west of the house and on the same side 
of the road. Eecently the family has made quite extensive repairs on 
the house. Mr. and Mrs. Cullen have had four children— Thomas, Wil- 
liam, John and Mary, all of whom are at home. Before the David Ellin- 
wood occupation of the house, was Dudley Wade, who came here from his old 
home in No. 7. Before Mr. Wade, was Brownell Wilbur, who came, early 
in the fifties, to Eose from Hamilton-. Mrs. Wilbur, before marriage, was 
Elizabeth Roswell, a native of Washington county. Their children were 
Marvin A. and Helen A., both prominent in the intellectual and social 
life of the town. From this farm the family went to the place now owned 
by William McMurdy, south of the Valley. Thence they moved to Victor, 
Ontario Co., where the parents died. They were life-long, devoted mem- 
bers of the Baptist Church. In Victor, Marvin married Ida M. Dewey, 
and has a son and daughter. He was one of the best school teachers ever 
in Eose. He was once a candidate for the position of commissioner of 
schools, and had he been on the other side in politics, would have been 
elected. However, his defeat never seemed to hinder his growth in the 
least. Helen married also, and went west. She is Mrs. T. T. Maffit of 
Walnut Eidge, Ark. Erastus Fuller, the first owner of this place, was a 
native of Connecticut, and probably a descendant of the Mayflower Fullers. 
During his childhood, he suffered extreme vicissitudes, knowing very 
little of the pleasures of home ; but, as frequently happens, he came out 
all the stronger for this severe discipline. His wife was Anna Brown, and 
her children were Ealph, Mary and Almanda. The last we met in District 
No. 7 as the wife of Delos Seelye. Mary will be seen as the wife of Hiram 
Mirick. Ralph married, first, Mary Allen, of Butler, and, second, 
Barbara Hendricks of Eose. His children are Marina, the wife of S. 
Harrison Ellinwood; William Erastus and Jerome, all- of whom live in 
Fenton, Oakland Co., Mich. Erastus Fuller was one of the first officers 
in the town and always received the very highest respect and consideration 
of his fellow townsmen. An anecdote is told which illustrates well the 
universality of some stories. As a boy, I had heard the following from 
my father, given as an answer to a question of '"Squire" Fuller, who 
was desirous of knowing the difference between an owl and a sparrow- 
hawk : " It is fuller in the head, fnUer in the body, and/(/??e/- all over."' 



ROSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 247 

I have no doubt that manj^ a Eose dweller considered it original, but it 
really dates from the days of Thomas Fuller, iirebend of Salisbury, in the 
days of Charles the First of England. He was noted for his fondness of 
punning, and the above was given by a gentleman named Sparrowhawk 
in reply to the prebend's query, as already told. As the clergyman was 
very corpulent, the significance of the rejoinder is evident. After a while 
the management of affairs was given up to Ralph, and in the early fifties, 
'53 or '54, he sold to B. Wilbur, and the family started west. Ralph, 
however, was fated not to see the promised land, for he died at Niagara 
Falls, on his way, after a very brief illness. The parents went on, and 
died in Fen ton. 

Where now is the substantial home of the family of Charles Sherman, 
Jonathan Ellinwood located very early in the century — 1818. If there 
was any one back of him on these acres, it was only some contractor, 
whose obligation Ellinwood took and carried out. He was a native of 
Vermont, so said, though it is possible that he was born in Massachusetts, 
and, like so many others, tried life for a time in the Green Mountain 
State, and thence emigrated to these western wilds. His wife was Naomi 
Weeks, and together they saw much of pioneer hardships. They were 
the parents of Chester, already encountered ; Thomas, who was drowned 
at Newark in the early days ' of the Erie canal ; Lucius, William and 
Betsey. The last was the wife of William Porter, probably from Oneida 
county. They lived for a time on the stone house farm, now Joel Lee's. 
Both are dead. A son, Henry, lives in Lansing, Mich. Lucius, who 
lived for many years on the farm now held by Harlan Wilson, married, 
first, Lucy A. Allen, of Butler, who died in 1838. Their children were 
Thomas Henry, for many years a citizen of Clyde, and S. Harrison, of 
Fenton, Mich. He was mentioned among the Fullers as the husband of 
Mai-ina. He has one son, Charles, who lives in Rose, Mich. Lucius 
married, second, Mahala Davis (a relative of the Butler family), who 
died in 1864. They had three children, two of whom — William S. and 
Lucy Ann — died in childhood, and Adelbert D., who mai-ried Frank, a 
daughter of Jacob Seager, of Clyde, the whilom band leader of the old 
Ninth Heavy Artillery. "Dell," as he was called, died in Lyons in 1889. 
Lucius died in Clyde in 1884, at the age of eighty-one years. The first 
comers, Jonathan and his wife, passed away in 1842 and 1840 respect- 
ively. It is remembered that the funeral of the former was held in the door 
yard, which sloped down to the road from the old house, now standing 
back of the Sherman house. Jonathan was a half brother of the father of 
Ellis, the nearest neighbor to the northeast. As is frequently the case, 
William, the youngest son, took the management of the old farm before 
the death of his parents. He married Clarissa L. Thompson, of Butler. 
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248 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 

and the father himself was laid there before his child, in 1844, at the early 
age of thirty-one years. The widow married William Sherman, a son of 
Elias D., and frequently met in our town wanderings. She went wevst 
long since. William lies in the BUinwood cemetery, having died in 1862, 
at the age of thirty-nine years. To them succeeded Samuel Hoffman, who 
sold to George G. Wickson, of Lyons, and he, in 1852, sold to Charles B. 
Sherman. 

Of Charles Sherman, extended mention was made in the No. 7 series, 
and now it is only necessary to make a few additions. Frank's wife was 
Eveline Moore,*of West Butler, and he lives in Eochester. Willard died 
in March, 1889; his only daughter, Ada -P., married Louis F. Lux, of 
Clyde, and lives in Eochester; George, who died in May, 1889, left a 
family^ to be met in the Valley ; Charles, who married Mary Gotier of New 
York ; Lucy, as Mrs. Putnam Sampson, still lives on the Clyde road ; 
Ezra, in Company C, 111th N. T., was an energetic boy, lost in the wild 
whirl of war ; his folks still preserve letters, written as a soldier. Nothing 
so well portrays the true farmer's lad as the postscript to a letter sent 
from Virginia in the winter of 1863. Here it is: "How does my mafe 
look this winter? Good-by." Out of the preparations for killing men, all 
about him, his mind goes to the peaceful home in the north, and he thinks 
of the colt which had excited his boyish pride and pleasure. I was a 
prisoner of war at the same time with Ezra, though not in the same place. 
He was on Belle Isle, and I have since learned that his father, Charles 
Sherman, and my grandfather. Col. George Seelye, frequently debated the 
organization of a crusade, to march through the south to liberate the 
captives. Perhaps it is quite as well for all that the plans of these well 
meaning, elderly gentlemen were not undertaken. The parents of Charles 
Sherman's second wife were from Oneida county, though the family was 
originally from Connecticut. Their children are: Chester T., Ezra A., 
and Hattie E. The name Ezra continues that of the boy who perished in 
the strife. It is claimed, and with propriety, that these young people 
(Hattie is 22 years old in 1893) are the youngest Eevolutionary grand- 
children in the country. Chester T. was married in 1892 to Harriet C. 
Kimberly, of Auburn. It was in 1854, or '55, that Mr. Sherman moved the 
old Ellinwood house back and constructed the present convenient and 
commodious edifice. The old house still stands near the corn house, a 
relic of the long ago. In addition to the Ellinwood farm, Mr. Sherman 
bought largely from the east and north part of Hiram Mirick's place, thus 
giving him one of the largest farms in the town. The northwest part of 
this he sold to his son, George, but of that more hereafter. Born in 1804, 
in Phelps, Ontario Co., and coming into the town at the early date of 
1811 or '12, Mr. Sherman could tell pretty nearly all there was to be told 
of pioneer life. When young, though not a large man, he was very 



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athletic, and he and Isaac Crydenwise contracted to cut 100 cords of wood 
for Peter Gordon, of Galen. This they did, averaging six cords per day. 
Crydenwise was a smaller man than Sherman. When the town lines were 
run out, Mr. S. assisted in the survey, and it is said that he was one of 
the first to work on the Erie canal, when this great venture of DeWitt 
Clinton was started. After paying for several farms by his own work, he 
at last flagged, and finally passed away in 1883. 

The Rose Shermans are all descendants from that Captain John Sherman, 
of Revolutionary service, who was one of the early comers to the town. 
His grandson, Chester, now in government employ in Washington, has 
taken pains to look up his pedigree, and he finds that the pioneer was born 
in Shrewsbury, Mass., March 27th, 1764, whence he moved to Conway, in 
the same state. He had a brother, Caleb, born May 14th, 1762, and a 
sister, Chloe, born August 4th, 1765. He afterward moved to Phelps, 
N. Y. The first Sherman in America, of this line, was Captain Jt)hn, who 
came from Essex, England, to Connecticut, though he seems to have 
settled in Watertown, Mass. He was a cousin of Samuel, and the Rev. 
John Sherman, with whom he came to this country. From this cousin 
branch, descended Senator John Sherman and his brother. General William 
T. This first Captain John Sherman married Martha Palmer, and died in 
1690, January 25th; his son, Joseph, was born in Watertown, Mass., 
March 14th, 1650, and married Elizabeth Winthrop, November 18th, 1673. 
He had three sons — John, born January 11th, 1674; Joseph, born Feb- 
ruary 8th, 1679 ; William, born June 28th, 1692, who was the father of 
Roger Sherman, one of Connecticut's signers of the Declaration of In- 
dependence. John was in the line leading to Rose, and he appears to 
have been in Marlborough, Mass.; for there were born his sons — Joseph, 
1703; Ephraim, 1710; John, 1713 ; Samuel, 1718. Joseph married Sarah 
Perrum, of Sutton, December 25th, 1728 ; his son, John, born in Shrews- 
bury, Mass., April 8th, 1737, married Chloe Thayer, of Bellingham, Mass., 
1761, who died in 1766, May 26th, at the age of twenty-five years. This 
brings us again to our Rose pioneer. He married Chloe, daughter of 
Elias Dickinson, of Conway, who also migrated to Phelps, and died in 
1806. The family flight to Phelps appears to have been made in 1790. 
The further removal to Rose was not until 1811 or '12. A deed is still in 
existence, stating that John Sherman, in 1810, bought of John and Anne 
Nicholas part of tract surveyed for Sir John Lowther Johnstone and 
Lady Charlotte, his wife, by Seth Whitmore, 301 acres, except fifty acres, 
northwest corner, sold to William Orton, Jr. This location must have 
been along the west side of the old Block House road, now the main street 
of the Valley. He early built a log tavern, standing near the present 
residence of F. H. Closs. The children of Capt. John Sherman were: 
Claramond, born in Conway, Mass., October 7th, 1791, and who married 



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Charles Woodard, once residing in Rose ; Elias D., born 1794 in Phelps ; 
Wealthy, 1796; Paulexana, 1800; Sarah, 1802; Charles Billings, 1801, 
and John, always known in Rose as "Jack." Of the Woodards extended 
mention will be made later. Elias D., with his father, was conspicnous 
for physical strength, and many an acre of woodland was cleared by their 
vigorous strokes. He lived in different places in Rose. We have en- 
countered him on the William Finch place, where he cleared a considerable 
portion of the farm. He was twice married ; his first wife was Wealthy 
Griswold, of Rose ; his second, Roxy Neal, who died October 28th, 1871, 
in Galesburg, 111. He had a numerous family; by his first wife, there 
were: William, frequently met in these sketches, born in Rose, as were 
all of Elias' children ; certain data were given concerning him in No. 7 ; 
to him and his wife came six sons : William Henry, killed at the Wilder- 
ness, a member of the 111th; Charles Eugene, died in infancy; Charles 
Elvin, now in Carsonville, Mich.; William B., also in Carsonville; Lewis 
E., Barry, Illinois; George Wallace, died in childhood; Mrs. William 
Sherman died May 9th, 1887, in Bridgehamton, Mich., and was buried 
in Forester ; Joseph Sherman was born Sept. 27th, 1823, and died in Bel- 
mont, Mich., January 15th, 1889 ; he lost one of his legs in a saw-mill, 
and it is said was the inventor of rubber cords for wooden legs ; Orra was 
born November 4th, 1825, and lives now in Watkins, N. Y., though he 
long lived in this town. He was a harness maker, and had a shop on Main 
street, next door to the house now occupied by Daniel Johnson, though 
the house is not standing now ; he built the houses occupied by Lucien 
Osgood and by widow Snow ; he has been three times married and has 
three children ; Eliza Sherman, born in 1827, died in 1884 ; Orrin, born in 
1829, studied medicine and died in Rose ; Levi, born in 1834, is a photog- 
rapher in Rochester; he served in the cavalry during the War ; Franklin 
N., born in 1836, now in Three Rivers, Mich., also in the Rebellion, from 
the west; Elias D., born 1839, lives in Watkins ; Wealthy died in child- 
hood ; Elias D. Sherman, by his second wife, had a son, John, now living 
in Comstock, Mich. Elias D. died September 2Sth, 1870. Of the second 
generation of Shermans, Wealthy married a Mr. Joy, and both lived and 
died on the lake shore, near Medina, N. T.; Paulexana • married Luther 
Chapman, in Phelps, though they lived in Buffalo and Adrian, Mich. She 
died in 1844, and is buried in Buffalo ; Sarah became Mrs. Truesdale, and 
moved to Barry, south of Rochester, where she died. The youngest son, 
John, or " Jack" in Rose parlance, was a well-known dweller here. His 
wife was Olive Crydenwise, a sister of that Isaac C. who married Sophia 
Thomas. The children were: Cordelia, Caleb, Emily, Charles H., 
Harrison, Harriet. Charles was a Company A, Ninth Heavy Artillery. 
man. When the War was over he went west, married Nancy Keyes, in 
Michigan, in 1866, and went to Missouri in 1867. He has a large farm, 



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where he is rearing a family of nine children. John Sherman, on leaving 
Rose, went to Battle Creek, Mich., where he died, March 23rd, 1891. His 
Eose home at one time was at or near Minerville, northwest of the Valley. 
This man, old as he was, was a soldier in the Kebellion. He enlisted in 
Company H, 111th N. Y., February 6th, 1864, and was discharged Sep- 
tember 10th, 1864. His widow, at last acconnts, was still living in Joppa, 
Mich. In addition to Charles, already mentioned, of John's children. 
Cordelia married "Wesley Castor, and died in Oakland county, Mich.; 
Caleb, married, died at Fortress Monroe, in war times ; Harrison married 
Mary Copeland ; Harriet is the wife of Ephraim Allen, of Joppa, Mich., 
while Emily, unmarried, is living with her mother. Going back to Charles 
B. Sherman, the student of names will be glad to know that Billings, his 
middle name, is thought to have come from Clara Billings, a friend or 
distant relative of the family. The first name, Clara, was given to the 
oldest daughter, and Billings, later, to a son. The first son, Elias D., 
clearly bore in full the name of his mother's father, Elias Dickinson, the 
Phelps pioneer. 

Back of the Sherman house, the land rises until it reaches the very 
highest point in the town, said to be 140 feet above the level of the lake. 
From the pinnacle one may look easily into all the surrounding towns. 
We stand above the Mirick hill, on the west, and can see the range of hills 
west of Wayne Centre. Only the foliage of the trees prevents a clear view 
of the lake twelve miles away. Eastward the Loveless hills and those east 
of South Butler appear. To the south the ends of many ranges arise, those 
leading through Galen and beyond. Nearer, the outlook includes all that 
makes Eose attractive to the native or acclimated foreign born. The road, 
winding along as the Melvins, Harmons and Stewarts left it ; the farm 
houses, successors to the humble log houses which supplanted the wilder- 
ness ; the fields ripening for the harvest ; the farmers at their useful toil ; 
while "Eound about them orchards sweep," — the prospect is a glorious 
one ; but it may be doubted whether a dozen Eose people ever climbed the 
hill to see what it unfolds. The immediate north view is cut off by the 
trees still standing, but in my anxiety that the old trees may still remain, 
I will cheerfully forego any pleasure of the eye, in prospect, that Rose may 
still include a little of the "forest primeval." 

Many people who have traveled this, one of the most crooked roads in 
the town, will recall a house, I think it was always old, which stood on 
the east side, just as the road swings around to the south, after passing 
Sherman's. I understand that it was built by one George Fairbanks, who 
had married Eliza, a daughter of John Wade. Inclined to the use of the 
" ardent, "lie had, nevertheless, quite a local reputation as a horse doctor, 
butcher and sheep shearer. When ' ' half seas over ' ' he was extremely 
polite. He and his sought the oblivion that the west afforded to so many 



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denizens of this town. After him came a host of tenants, all of whom 
seemed to abound in shoeless, noisy children. In time the house dis- 
appeared. It is now the barn on the Louis Town place, in the Valley. 
The well was filled up, and only an extra growth of weeds marks its site. 
From this point southward, we are on land that once stood in the name 
of Thaddeus Collins, 1st, and after him, his sons. Before him, was the 
famous Nicholas and Rose purchase, and our first halt is at the home of 
the Harts. To this ijlace Marvin D. Hart, first met in District No. 9, 
came some years ago, and here he died, June 21, 1888. Mr. Hart was 
descended from William Hart, who came from England to Rhode Island in 
the eighteenth century. His sdn, Samuel, born June 2, 1791, when twelve 
years old, with an older brother, Rodman, migrated to Seneca county. He 
served in the War of 1812, and was later a surveyor. He was married 
December 18, 1817, to Hester Hobrow, born in Liverpool, Eng., June 4, 

1791, locating on a farm in Junius. Marvin D., the fifth of six children, 
and the second son, was born April 5, 1850. In addition to a common 
school training he was one year at Oberlin. Coming to Rose in 1857, he 
was married September 23, 1857, to Mary J. Miner. Save four years, 
from 1871, spent at the old home in Junius, his residence was Wayne 
county till his death. For generations the Harts were Baptists. Mrs. 
Hart and her daughter, Alice M., with her aged father, Mr. Miner, main- 
tain a very pleasant and attractive home. Long resident with Mrs. Hart, 
her aged father, Isaac Miner, is the oldest man in Rose. Born April 12, 

1792, in Stonington, Conn., he is very near a century old. His memory 
recalls vividly the War of 1812. He came with his parents to Winfield, 
Herkimer county, when young, and there was married to Survilla Gould. 
Later, he came to Butler, thence he went to Scipio, Cayuga county, and 
next to Castile, Wyoming county. Finally they returned to Butler. His 
wife lived till past the seventy-first marriage anniversary. He walks the 
streets erect, without the aid of a cane. His mind is clear and his memory 
retentive. (Mr. Miner died just short of his 100th birthday, December 31, 
1891, and was buried in Wolcott.) 

Years since, a small house on this site was the home of the noted 
shoemaker, " Johnny '' Ogram. This man had a reputation peculiarly his 
own. No matter how many pairs were promised ahead, one could always 
have his boots " next Saturday night." If the recording angel took down 
all the swearing that was done on account of this foible of " Johnny," he 
must have been kept pretty busy on Saturdays, 'long toward 9 p. m. 
It is said that Michael Vandercook kept account of the number of his 
disappointments, and when he did get his boots, he sued the cordwainer 
and made him pay for all the trouble he had given him. Ogram was said 
to be a little more careful thereafter. His shop was built of logs and was 
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from this point southward, and the old house was rented to many 
occupants. In it died Richard Deady, a brother of John, 2d, of District 
No. 5, and grandfather of Ambrose, now in Huron. Dickson sold to Peter 
Harmon, who erected the house long conspicuous as we approach the 
village. He sold to Henry C. Rice, a native of Seneca county, the greater 
part of whose life had been passed in Butler, where he had owned a large 
farm. He was twice married. The three children by this first marriage — 
Sarah, Mary and Henry — never lived in Rose, but were married and resi- 
dents elsewhere, before the moving to this town. His second wife was 
Catharine B. Ladue, of Butler. Their adopted daughter, Helen, became 
the second wife of Harvey J. Ferris. Mr. Rice added a little to the land 
for garden and flower purposes, and always made his home exceedingly 
attractive. Though ever an attendant, it was not until comparatively late 
in life that he became a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in 
whose communion he died in 1876. He was buried in Butler Centre. After 
him came Marvin D. Hart. 

More than twenty years since, James Harvey Ferris, who had been a 
hard working Butler farmer, determined to make Rose the home of his 
declining years, and so bought here land that ranges back through the 
hands of Darwin Dickinson, Thomas and Closs, C. B. Collins, Thaddeus 
Collins, first, etc. There were at first some thirty-eight acres, which, 
saving the lots of George Sherman and R. D. Dickinson, are now in the 
Ferris possession. Deacon Ferris built a large house, adapted to two 
families, and here, in the south part of the structure, with his wife, he 
lived till his death, in 1885. He was a native of Ira, in Cayiiga county ; 
his wife was Esther Terpening, born in Saratoga county. They had six 
children, who married as follows : Jane, to Christopher Caywood ; Mary, 
Frank Cobb, of Ouray, Col. ; Harriet, married Darwin Dickinson ; Henry, 
deceased, who married Lena Albright. She afterward became the second 
wife of Benjamin Bishop, of Butler. The second son, Cornelius, married 
Milly Piatt, in Michigan, and is a very prosperous resident of Denver, Col. 
The youngest son, Harvey, married, first, Alice, the oldest daughter of 
James Armstrong, of Rose, and second, Helen Rice. Their home is in the 
north part of this large house, and they have a numerous family, bearing 
the names of Mabel A., Edith M., Nellie R., Edna J. and Harvey L. Mrs. 
Henry C. Rice makes her home here, while Harvey works the paternal 
acres. When the road, which turns to the north at Harlan "Wilson's, is 
properly extended, it will enter the village somewhere between the Hart 
and Ferris houses. The extension cannot come any too soon. 

The next house was erected by George Sherman. He had taken what is 
now the Campbell place, north of the Valley, from his father, Charles, and 
after some years of industrious labor, most efficiently supplemented by his 
wife, Sybil Wilson, had retired from it with what seemed a competence for 



254 EOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 

life. He then built this house, and here lived till his death, in 1888. Mrs. 
Sherman is one of that noted family of Wilson girls, and has ever been a 
most excellent wife and mother. Her children are G. Adelbert, and Eena, 
the wife of G. Collins Wood. Since the death of Mr. Sherman, Ephraim 
Wilson, 2d, a brother of Mrs. S., has lived in the house with her. 
His wife's name before marriage was Ella Armstrong, daughter of James. 
They have three daughters, Jessie, Alice and Ruth. Mr. W. is by trade 
apainter and paper hanger. (This place, with many improvements and 
additions, is now the home of George Catchpole, formerly of District No. 
3, and here, in April 21, 1893, his wife died.) 

E. Darwin Dickinson built the next house. We encountered him first 
in our way through District No. 2, as the oldest son of William D. In 
that series, the names of his children were given. Harvey and Merville 
are about leaving Idaho for Fair Haven, Washington, and Carrie, who has 
successfully passed through the Albany Normal School, is to go to Idaho 
as a teacher. Her mother will accompany her. (Mrs. Dickinson died 
August 1, 1892, in Haly, Idaho, and her remains were brought to Rose for 
burial.) John A. Drown resided in the house till recently. Mr. Drown 
was mentioned in the series on the Griswold district. The Van Horns, 
whose daughter, Hannah S., he married first, lived once on the place now 
possessed by Fred Ream. Mrs. Drown died in 1878. She was the mother 
of Henry, resident in Michigan ; Newton A. and George W., both living in 
Rochester. Mr. Drown is an earnest Christian man, who enjoys a restful 
life, earned by former years of application to business. Mr. D. lately 
moved to the west. (Now held by E. T. Pimm.) 

As the road once ran along to the west, with no southern continuation, 
we will follow the old line and notice, first, the home of Joel Sheffield, 
located on the corner. Here, long since, the first James Colborn built the 
first stave factory in the village. He sold it to William Sebring, who 
came hither from Wayne Centre, and went thence to Michigan. Stephen 
Waite owned afterward, and he built the house. To him succeeded John 
Gillett, an acquaintance of District No. 9, who died here in 1866. The 
present owner, Joel Sheffield, has frequently appeared in these sketches. 
He has been road commissioner, supervisor and postmaster in spit« of 
his being a Democrat in a Republican town. Had his politics accorded 
with those of the majority of his fellow citizens, it would be difficult to 
enumerate the positions he might have held. He has long been chorister 
of the Baptist Church, superintendent of the Sunday school and one of the 
most important members of that body, *. e., the Baptist organization, 
much of the musical ability and religious fervor of his father, James, 
having descended to him. He and his wife, Nannie Osgood, have only 
one child, Harriet Eudora. In the next house abides the widow of Pardon 
Jones, whose acquaintance was made in the North Rose district. ( Died 



ROSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 255 

January 22, 1893, aged 79 years.) A small turbine water wheel on the 
porch is an advertisement of the business which her son, George, follows 
in Auburn. Abel Lyon was before the Jones family, and Stephen Waite 
built the house. Widow Mary Myers dwells next. She came from Lock 
Berlin. I might state that though widows abound on this street, it is by 
no means forlorn. I believe, beginning with widow CuUen and stopping 
with widow Chaddock, there are sixteen good women who are husbandless. 
Some one has recently counted up sixty widows in Rose, thus proving, I 
suppose, that the men work harder than the women. Isaac Race built the 
house, and his widow sold it. Mrs. Myers has a daughter, who married 
the late John Decker, of North Rose. Mrs. Jones owns a vacant lot 
intervening between Mrs. Myers' home and that of the widow of John 
Gillett, now Mrs. Center. 

Across the small run is the house which Howard Foster built. He was 
interested with the Fredendalls in the mill, east of the Baptist Church. 
Mrs. Center, who now owns the place, is the widow of Gansevoort Center, 
of Butler, as well as of John Gillett, of Rose. ( Died September 19, 1892, 
in 79th year.) 

The widow of Alonzo Snow, who lives in the next house, has improved 
it very much since she bought of widow Betsey Peck. Levi Lyman pre- 
ceded her, and the house was built by Orrin Sherman. Alonzo Snow 
formerly lived on the Ogram place, south of the Valley. Mr. Snow came 
here from Madison county. Mrs. Snow was Mary Shattuck, of Poolville, 
Madison county. They had no children, but their adopted daughter, 
Carrie, was Mrs. Harlan Wilson, of Rose. 

The house in which Frank Blake lives has something of a history. In 
the long ago, when the old red tavern stood in front of the space occupied 
by the present Frank H. Closs house, this was a part of it, possibly the 
bar-room. On the demolition of the tavern, Daniel C. Alexander, the 
blacksmith, bought this part and moved it back of his shop. Later it 
took another move and, by Levi Lyman, was planted where it now is. 
Thus it is probable that the structure dates from the days of Charles 
Thomas, or Jacob Miller, the pioneer. Mr. Blake, the present occupant, 
succeeded to the business of Brewster Soper and drives an express between 
Rose and Clyde. 

The old stone school-house follows, but a special chapter will be given 
to the schools and school-houses of the Centre district. 

The daughter of Philip Turner owus the next house. She is a grand- 
daughter of Geo. W. Ellinwood. The building formerly stood on the hill, 
to the northeast, and it was once occupied by Charles Wright, who bought 
it of Ovid Allen. «■ 

Charles Wright formerly owned the next house also. It then stood on 
the hill, near the evaporator. One De Golyer bought a lot of the Miricks 



256 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 

and moved a part of this present house upon it. He used it as a furniture 
store-shop. The main upright has been erected since. Hudson R. Wood 
owned and occupied along in the early seventies, and after him, William 
Deady resided here with his numerous family. His wife was Janette 
Jeffers, the twin sister of Mrs. H. R. Wood. Though for some time a 
resident in Lyons, it will not be amiss to name here the children born in 
Rose. There were three boys, of whom two were twins : Schuyler Colfax, 
John Q. and George. The daughters are : Ida H., Florence and Jessie. 
A Robinson next possessed, and he sold to Jerry Barrett, the present 
owner. The occupant is George Collier, who married Mary E., daughter 
of Jackson Valentine. 

The corner is reached and the last house, where resides the widow of 
William Cbaddock, 2d. Extended mention was made of her family in the 
No. 9 series. Peter Decker, Chester EUinwood's son-in-law, built the 
house and Willard Sherman dwelt here for some time and, after him, 
Chester Ellinwood, when he left his farm. 

We must return to the northeast entrance to the village and begin again. 
As usual, we are on old Collins soil and the first house is owned (and now 
occupied) by S. Wesley Gage, whose wife was a Collins. They were 
encountered in the Covell district. He built the house, though before him, 
as owners of the lot, were Sheldon R. Overton and William Chidester. 

In the next abode may be found William Kellogg, met in the Butler 
part of District No. 7. The place is a portion of the estate of Abel Lyon, 
deceased. The latter was for many years prominent in the counsels of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church ; came here from Red Creek ; on his death, 
his remains were borne thither for burial. There was for many years in 
his household a grandson, McLane, who is now a successful banker in 
the west. Mr. McCoy, who came to Rose from Oswego, built the house. 
He went from Rose to Youngstown, Ohio. ( Now owned by Lewis 
Barrett, whose wife died here May 24, 1893.) 

Mrs. Clarinda Town, the widow of Milton, with her son, Lewis S., lives 
in the next house. Mr. Town, in addition to looking after the paternal 
acres in District No. 6, is a very successful dealer in dried fruit, going 
each season to the west for this purpose. The house was built by Charles 
Deady for the use of his mother, who died here several years since. W. 
M. Osborne, now of Lyons, once lived here. 

Luman Barrett, tiring of the routine of his farm life in Huron, has come 
to the next house, the property of Elder M. H. De Witt, now of Pennsyl- 
vania, but for a short time the pastor of the Rose Baptist Church. He 
inherited it from W. M. Cole, whose daughter he had married. Another 
daughter, Angeline, was one of my earliest teachers in District No. 7. 
Mr. Cole was long a resident of Butler, but he came to this village to pass 
his last years. The Holcombs also lived here for some time, after leaving 



ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 257 

their farm in District No. 5. Isaac Race was the builder of the house. 
( Now occupied by Derrick Hamelink, first met in District No. 11.) 

William H., better known as " Bill " Thomas, resides in the next house, 
of which he is the builder. He married Polly Dodds, a daughter of 
William, and her aged mother makes her home here. The Thomases had 
only one daughter, Jennie, who was the wife of John Kaiser. She died 
October 4, 1801, at the age of 36 years, leaving three children. 

Mr. Thomas was a wagon maker and, in company with M. T. Collier, 
managed the business for many years, further along the street. He died 
suddenly September 29, 1891, aged 65 years. Mr. Thomas' father was 
Nathan W., whose old home will be noted when we reach the Free 
Methodist Church. 

The Baptist parsonage is the next house, and, of course, its occupants 
in all the years have been many. Elder Clemence Shaw has lived in it till 
recently. He has three children: Herbert, Jennie and Addie. Mr. 
Shaw came here fiom Ontario, but he was originally from the noi'thern 
part of the state. Harrison Valentine built the house which marks the 
site of William Sebring's cooper shop. ( In 1893 the home of Eev. M. 
H. Cusic and family.) 

Ira Soule, who follows, was born in Middleboro, Mass., a descendant 
of George Soule, who came to Plymouth in the Mayflower. He married 
Abigail W. Thayer, a daughter of Rose's noted Boniface, and deserted 
the Bay State and came hither in 1855. After sampling various spots in 
the village, he settled here in this house, built by William Sebring, but 
which he bought of George Mirick in 1855. Mr. S. is a shoemaker and 
keeps a shoe store near Pimm's Hotel. He left the bench in war times, 
and with his son, Ira T., enlisted in the Ninth Heavy Artillery, and was 
a member of the baud. He has two sons — Ira T. and Stephen W., who 
married Ottie A. Roe, and lives in Clyde, having one son, Herbert. (Also 
Roe Thayer, b. in 1893.) The Thayers lost a daughter, Abigail A., in 
infancy. Lucius Ellinwood was the builder of the next house, and sold 
to Peter Decker. Frank Sherman was an occupant once. Gilbert V. 
White, son-in-law of Elder A. Maynard, was here some years. His 
wife, Frank, died in Lyons, October, 1891. Delos Seelye, when he left 
the farm, came here to live and die ; for it was in August, 1870, that he 
was borne hence, past the scene of his many labors, to his final resting 
place, in the Collins burial ground. After his death, his widow, 
Almanda, lived here for some time, and after her death, in 1883, their 
daughter, Anna Hickok, and husband, Felton, with their only son, Wil- 
liam Delos, came hither and still occupy. Will, is now in the railroad 
employ in Syracuse. 

Brewster Soper for many years lived in the next building, and in it 
reared a large family. He was of Long Island extraction, and long earned 
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an honest living by teaming between Rose and Clyde. Mr. S.'s wife was 
Betsey Petty and their children were : Clarissa, who married Leonard 
Collins, of Clyde ; Sarah married John Gage and lives in Brooklyn ; 
Dorenda, the wife of William Waldron, in Xew York; Catharine died 
early ; Caroline married William Gage, their daughter, Grace, has been 
met at her Uncle Wesley Gage's ; Rua married Lorenzo Terbush, and both 
are dead ; Sophia is Mrs. Philander Mitchell, of the Clyde road, and 
Frank, who married Sylvia Lovejoy. Brewster Soper died in 18S7. His 
wife passed away in March, 1890, having lived for some time with her 
daughter, Sophia. This honse was built by Mr. Soper more than fifty 
years ago, and has been changed very little in the intervening time. It 
is now unoccupied. 

Next stands the parsonage of the Free Methodist Church, and this 
building, too, has known many occupants. The present resident is the 
Rev. J. B. Newton, who has three children — Earl B., Benjamin T. and 
Louis A. Mr. N. is a native of Chenango county. The church history 
will be given in a chapter by itself. (Since the above was written, Mr. 
Newton was killed, September 3d, 1891, at camp meeting, by the falling 
of a tent. The present occupants are Rev. F. J. Dunham and family.) 

Upon the site of the Free Methodist Church stood the house of Nathan 
W. Thomas. He was first cousin to Eron N. As Eron had a brother, 
also named Nathan W., who was a tanner, the latter was called ''Red 
Nate," the former, a blacksmith, was "Black Nate." He came here from 
Onondaga county, and his wife was Caroline Appleby, afterward Mrs. C. 
B. Collins. Their children were: William H.; Mary Jane, who lives 
with Mr. Collins, in Clyde; Maria Antoinette, who died at the age of 
fourteen years, and Fernando Cortes, who died in California in 1887. He 
lived first on Valentine's hill and worked for John Bassett. His own shop 
finally stood near or on the site of the Free Methodist parsonage. His 
house was afterward moved back and is now the barn for the Soper house. 
He died in 1838, in his thirty-sixth year. 

The wagon shop and black smithing of Thomas & Collier come next. 
William Thomas wa"s the builder, and had long conducted an honest and 
upright business. In August, 1861, the firm was organized as it exists 
to-day, and that it should continue thus is creditable alike to the integrity 
and dispositions of the partners. The business was started on this spot 
considerably earlier by Chauncey B. Collins and John Lackey, a cousin 
of Mrs. Amos S. Wyckoff. Since Mr. Thomas' death the business has 
been conducted by Mr. Thomas Collier. 

Beyond is a large building, representing considerable money lying idle. 
Here, in the remote past, was the first Presbytei'ian Church. When the 
new one was built, this was sold to the district, which for a time main- 
tained in it the union school. Then it was sold to Joseph Genung & Co., 



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•who turned it into a planing- mill. After a time, machinery for grind- 
ing grain was put in and, by steam power, it was run for a term of years, 
coming finally, in March, 1871, into the hands of Jared Chaddock, in 
whose possession it was when it burned, December 30th of the same year. 
Sympathizing friends raised a thousand dollars to set the mill owner on 
his feet again, and the present structure followed. Jared jjassed it over 
to the Fredendalls, and they ran the mill for a time. It is now idle. 

For the Baptist chronicles that would naturally follow, the reader must 
wait for the chapter on the churches. 

We now return to the Thomas triangle and follow Dix street southward. 
This way is a continuation of that which Eron N. Thomas laid Out in war 
times for the purpose of locating the new Methodist Episcopal Church in 
the lower part of the village. That or Thomas street did not then extend 
further than its present eastern extremity. Later this northerly turn was 
taken and the name Dix api)lied, doubtless in memory of him who said: 
" If any man attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the 
spot." As John A. Dix was the typical war Democrat, and as Mr. 
Thomas was of this ilk himself, it seems probable that my genesis is the 
correct one. On the west side of this street, south of Joel Sheffield's, 
there is only one house, and this is the pleasant home of Miss Lucetta 
Lyon, a niece of the late Deacon Walter Lyon, so long a resident below the 
village. Her father was Parley, who came to Wayne county from Wynd- 
ham county, Conn., somewhere in the thirties. He lived for a time on the 
Dwight-Flint farm, in Huron. His wife was Phtebe Preston, a sister of 
Joseph Preston, who formerly held the old Samuel Gardner place. One 
of his sons is William H. Lyon, now of Brooklyn, but formerly of Rose. 
In early life, the latter taught school in North Eose and in the high school 
of Clyde. He married Ellen Gaylord, a daughter of Mrs. Eron JST. Thomas, 
by her first husband. Parley Lyon died in 1846, and is buried in Rose. 
His wife went back to the east, and there died. Miss Lyon is responsible 
for the building of this home. To her care was left, in 1866, Willie, the 
infant son of her sister, Mrs. Susan M. Lindsley, and to him she gave the 
most excellent care, rearing and education; but in 1887, just after his 
attaining his majority, he died, and was buried by his mother's side. Mr. 
Wm. H. Lyon, in his earlier days, experimented successfully in teleg- 
raphy, and invented a system for electrical printing or writing. He, 
however, devoted himself to mercantile pursuits, and for more than forty 
years was at the head of the oldest and one of the largest importing and 
jobbing fancy goods and notions houses in the land. Located at 483-485 
Broadway, the business was widely known. Mr. Lyon has traveled ex- 
tAisively ; in 1869 was appointed by President Grant a member of the 
Board of Indian Commissioners, and in 1889 was still a member. Through 
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260 ROSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 

of dollars. He possesses much real estate in Minnesota, the development 
of Lake City being largely owed to him. 

Beginning with the first house on the east side of the street, we shall 
find Mrs. Henry C. Klinck. We met the Klincks in District No. 3. 
Of all the children born to her, only her youngest, or Bert, is at home. 
This -was the home of Artemas Osgood, after his leaving the farm, and 
here he died in 1SS7, at the age of eighty-eight years. John Crisler first 
built here. Mr. Osgood was born in Montague, Mass., Jan. 17, 1799, the 
son of Samuel and Eunice O. He was descended from John Osgood, born 
in Southampton, Eng., 1575; came to America in 16.38, and settled in 
Andover, Mass. (Mrs. Klinck died Jan. 15, 1892.) 

Mark T., or better known as "Tom" Collier, owns the next house. He 
bought the lot, having an old house on it, from Lawrence Crisler, and him- 
self built and repaired. He married Sarah F. Zeluff, of Clyde. Their 
only son is Albert D., who married Grace L. Crowell, of Clyde, and has 
lately gone into business there, succeeding Henry Ellinwood. 

To the adjoining brick residence, reared by himself, Charles G. Oakes 
came from his farm a long time ago. His old home, in District No. 6, 
was described in earlier letters. He and his wife encountered very much 
of the hardships of the pioneer. Mr O. has said that he once went through 
an entire year with only one dollar in money. Boots and shoes were very 
dear, and he had heated a thick plank to stand upon in his rag-covered 
feet, while chopping in the cold snowy winter. Mrs. Oaks, who was born 
in Pittstown, Rensselaer county, is, at a venerabte age, still living, and 
her mind recalls vividly the vicissitudes of the past. Her home is here with 
her daughter, Mary, who is Mrs. Harry Valentine. The latter's children, 
are Anna, the wife of John T. Kellogg, of Clyde, and George, at home, 
(Recently married Alice Rich, of Waupaca, Mich.) Anna has two children 
— Hattie V. and Clara L. Her husband is a son of William Kellogg, 
formerly of District No. 7. 

Harvey Barnes, of Huron, owns the next house to the south, taking it 
from the estate of his father-in-law, Robert Catchpole, who came hither 
when he grew weary of his farm work. It is now occupie(i by Prank 
Soper, a son of Brewster, whose wife is Sylvia, daughter of John Lovejoy, 
of Glenmark. Their children are Bessie E. and John B. Mr. S. follows 
the trade of a painter. Mr. Soper recently has gone west for a part of the 
year each season to evaporate fruit. A part of this house is of interest in 
that it was once the home of Johnny Ogram, on the knoll where Mrs. 
Hart's house is. It took a journey hither and was worked over. Now 
owned and occupied by Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Seelye, formerly of No. 6. 

Joseph S. Wade follows. Familiar friends call him " Joe," and his face- 
recalls that of his maternal grandfather, Joseph Seelye, whose name he 
bears. In addition to arduous duties in politics, "Joe" manages his farm. 



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ill the western eonfines of Butler. The Wade data were given quite fully 
in District No. 7. His only child is Nellie E., at home. The house was 
built by William McCoy. 

In a brick house, somewhat back from the street, dwells Peter Harmon. 
He built his own house, for carpentering and Joining are his callings. 
After he had built many houses and lived in some of them, he settled down 
here. He came to Rose in 18.51. His wife was Margaret Moon, from 
Schoharie county. Their children are Lillie Z. and lone M. The latter is 
the wife of Judson J. Sheffield, now in Rochester. This is a good place, in 
our rambles, to give a sketch of the Harmon family. John Harmon and 
his wife, Clarissa Abbott, came to Rose in 1852. Mr. Harmon was born in 
Westfield, Mass., in 1798. His father, Peter, came from England, and 
was a drum major in the American army during the Revolution. He 
married in Hunter, Green Co., N. Y., in ISIS, and lived many years in 
Great Barrington, Mass. He was converted under the labors of Rev. John 
Bangs, and became a devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
For a long time he was prominent in its councils. His wife was born in 
1804. They had twelve children, of whom three — Daniel, William and 
Alfred — were iu the army during the Rebellion. The latter years of their 
lives were passed with their daughter, Mrs. Stephen Waite. The oldest 
son, Peter, named for the Revolutionary grandfather, has been already 
mentioned. Daniel P. married first, Nellie Doan, of Newark, who died 
during the War. Her only child, Ina, is Mrs. Clarence N. Phillips, west 
of the Valley. His second wife was Jennie Schofield. of Palmyra, where 
they live and where they have three children. Mr. Harmon was for years 
-a very successful teacher of vocal music, singing being a strong point with 
the whole Harmon family. I recall a very pleasant winter's instruction 
from him, that of 1865 and '66. It was just after the War, and my last 
previous recollection of Daniel Harmon was that of seeing him at Monocacy, 
Md., trying to rally the men of the Ninth, who were falling back under the 
galling fire of the rebels. There seemed to be very little order, but a case 
of every man looking out for himself. The colors were halted just at the 
verge of the hill and Captain Harmon, of Company H, shouted : '-Rally 
around your flag, men !" A goodly number halted, but our formation and 
advance were ineffectual. Affliction at home compelled Captain Harmon 
to resign iu 1864. Like nearly all the Harmon family, he is a carpenter 
and joiner. .Latterly he has had a superintendency of canal construction. 
William Harmon married first, Polly Brewster, by whom he had two sons — 
Frank, now in Shortsville, and Henry, in Rochester. His second wife was 
Mary Legg, whose daughter, Lizzie, is the wife of Fred Waldruff, of Dis- 
trict No. 3. Mr. Harmon's home is in Rochester. Alfred Harmon, 
another carpenter, resides in Palmyra ; his wife, before marriage, was 
Mary Forncrook, they have one son and three daughters. John Harmon's 



262 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 

daughters were : Hannah, who married Matthew Crisler, of Eose ; Laura, 
who married Henry B. Sherman, of Eose, and lived in the north part of 
the village ; their son, John E., a member of the lUth N. Y., was killed 
in the battle of the Wilderness ; the local post of the G. A. E. is named 
for him ; their daughter, Clara, married James Bowers, and went to Alle- 
gany Co.; Lizzie and Flora also married in the same county, while Jennie 
became the wife of Wilbur Osborn, living west of the Valley. Lydia Ann 
Harmon married Isaac Eace, who, as a builder, has been met several times 
in the village ; be was born in Egremont, Mass., the same town whence 
came the Wincbells, and died in 1865, in the house now held by widow 
Myers. Abbie E. Harmon married Stephen Waite of Eose, and Sarah, 
the youngest daughter of John Harmon, married Samuel Swayne. of 
Swaynesville, Allegany Co. 

Back among the apple trees is the quiet home of G. Collins Wood, biat 
among his friends he is rather known as "Collie." He built this house 
and the accompanying baru. His vocation during a part of the year is 
the running of a threshing machine. His wife is Eena, a daughter of 
George and Sybil Sherman. They have only one child, Ealph. Mr. Wood 
was boi'n in Butler, at the Centre, when his father, Hudson E. Wood, 
resided there. (H. E. Wood and wife are now here.) 

Near the road is the home of George Stubley, English born, as is his 
wife, Elizabeth Eanson, both from Lincolnshire. They have two sons and 
two daughters — William, Fred, Cora and Eose. Mr. Stubley, who is 
a worker in stone and general laborer, bought of John Gage, a brother of 
Wesley. William is now with the 10th U. S. Infantry, and Fred is in 
the employ of the New York Central Eailroad. In the brick house near 
(owned by a Mrs. Brewster of Wolcott), lives James W. Colborn. In the 
Valley he is better known as "Jim" or "Judge." The Colborn family 
was met in District No. 8, where James was born and where he lived 
till about twenty years since, when he moved into the Valley. For some 
time he was on Main street, near the corner of Thomas. His wife's maiden 
name was Martha M. Worden, a daughter of Alanson, formerly of the Jeffers- 
neighborhood. Their children are : Irving \Vorden, married and living in 
Newark ; Edwin Douglas, who married Adaline Doremus, and lives in 
North Eose : Eosa Belle, the wife of Arthur T. Earless, of Eose ; Abbie 
M. and Clarence Clifford, at home. (Douglas Colborn, a painter by trade, 
lives now in Newark. He has children, Earl and Glen.) 

A vacant lot stands in the name of E. T. Pimm and then we find a small 
structure, used at times for a feed mill, belonging to Collins Wood. 

On the corner, for a narrow street runs southerly by the school-house 
grounds, is Mrs. Mary Cleveland. Alfred Harmon once owned the place 
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Still further south owns the widow of C. M. Shaver. Then comes 
Thomas Hamm, whose house, formerly owned by Byron Crandall, was 
partly at one time the shoe shop of Jonathan Wilson, and stood on Main 
street, three doors south of Pimm's Hotel. Mr. Hamm is from Columbia 
Co.; his wife was Charlotte Van Duseu. They have two children, William 
and AugBsta. He came to Rose twenty-three years since. Finally, Mrs. 
Jane Sweet resides, and here the street ends. 

Coming back to Thomas street, the school-house is next, to be noticed at 
length hereafter. Ifo residences intervene till we come to that of William 
Matthews. This was built by William Holbrook. Mr. Matthews is 
English born, coming to America forty years since. His first wife he 
married in England ; her name was Sarah Steele. Three children died in 
the old country, and three came to this land, viz.: William, who married 
Ida Birdsall, and lives in Clyde ; Melicent, who married John Viele, of 
Eose; both are dead ; and Mary, who married William Bofinger, and lives 
in Clyde. His second wife was Rachel Viele, of Rose, and their children 
are Richard and Louis, twins, who, with Joseph, the next son, are married 
and living in Madison county ; Charles, in Union Springs, and John, who 
married Emma D. Hamm, and lives south of the Valley. In addition to 
this place, Mr. M. owns the house on Main street, in which William A. 
Mix resides. He will also be met as a former resident in other places. 

The street to which we have come is called Church, from the Methodist 
Episcopal edifice, past which it would run if continued. At present it 
stops at Thomas street. On the southwest corner is the home of Josiah 
Streeter, whose mother was a Winchell ; his wife a Bovee. He was a 
soldier during the Rebellion, and has several children. Eron Thomas built 
the house for a select school, about 1860. Afterward it was made over 
into a dwelling house, and was occupied by Charles Jennison, a tinner, 
working for L. H. Dudley. The widow Cummings, a sister of William 
Haney, formerly of District No. 7, lived and died here. W. R. Winchell 
also held it, till an adventitious arrearage of pensions allowed Mr. Streeter 
to purchase. 

Returning to the north side of Thomas street, for were we to go beyond 
Streeter's we should reach Main street, we shall find only vacant lots, till 
we come to the place now held by William Weed, but was built by a Mr. 
Blood, who sold to Mr. Weed, who is a brother of Oscar, of the Glenmark 
neighborhood. He came to this site in 1S79, and has kept a livery and 
horse-training stable. His wife, Anna Walker, is a native of Wyoming 
county ; a brother was the late Rev. Ellis Walker, of the Troy Conference 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and her grandfather, Major James 
Smith, of Canajoharie, Montgomery county, was a Revolutionary officer. 
She is herself a writer of no little note, having published, in 1886, a novel 
entitled " Isadore, or the Day Star of Hope." 



264 EOSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 

A very small house, belonging to C. S. Wright, is found next, and in it 
lives widow Ackerman, having several children, one of whom is a soldier 
in the United States army. 

In the Methodist Episcopal parsonage, in August, 1890, and for the 
preceding five years, dwelt Eev. G. W. Reynolds, the first minister to 
profit by the extension of pastorate made by the General Conference of 
1888. Mr. E. is a native of Ulster county ; his wife, who was Susan A. 
Griffin, was born in Orange county. They have three children, a son and 
two daughters, but only Alma E. has lived with them here, and she was 
married in the early days of their pastorate. The Methodist Episcopal 
Church, recently repaired, is next. Eev. George S. Transue is now the 
pastor. 

Crossing to the beginning of Church street, we go down the same, 
finding, just south of Josiah Streeter's, a small house belonging to John 
Matthews. He bought of " Deck " Brewster. 

East of the angle made by this street as it turns toward the west, are the 
extensive barns once belonging to the Thomas farm, which ran back and 
north and south. They belong to William Xiles, whose home will be found 
on Main street, itself the old Thomas house. 

On the south side of the way is the home of Postmaster Edgar F. 
Houghton, a native of Lyons, who came to Eose from Alton in 1876. His 
wife, Mary E., is a daughter of the late John Becket ; they have one child, 
Blanche E. Beside his post oftice duties, Mr. H. is a traveling salesman. 
His wife's jiarents have lived here for some time. John Becket came from 
Skillington, England, and had been for more than forty years a resident of 
this town. Besides Mrs. Houghton, a son, William, resides in Clyde. 
(Mr. Becket died January 16, 1893, and on the 29th following, his widow 
followed him. June 4, Mr. Houghton's mother, Mrs. Margery A. Snyder, 
died at his home. ) 

Across the way is a small house, lately bought by Mrs. Catharine Harjjer 
from Mrs. Viele. 

We will next approach the village from the north, leaving behind us 
District No. 3, or the Lyman neighborhood. The first stop will be made 
at the home of Isaac Campbell, who was born in Newport, Herkimer 
county. His wife, Josephine Miuott, was born in Schuyler, of the same 
county. He served during the War in the 34th New York, two years, 
and later was in the 16th Heavy Artillery, being the first man in Herkimer 
county to enlist. He came to this place in 1875. There are six children 
here, viz., Herbert M., Grace, Mabel, Florence, Eoss and Nellie. The 
large cottonwood tree standing near the road is probably the largest in the 
county. When its twin was standing, they constituted a figure unexcelled 
in arboreal beauty in the whole section. It was a sad moment when one 



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-was cut down. Would that Morris' lines had been read to stay the 
■woodman's axe : 

"Woodman, spare that tree, 
Touch not a single bough." 

These trees date back to the time of Samuel Southwick, more than 
seventy years. Within the memory of the oldest inhabitant, the house 
has changed little, if any. It is true that George Sherman once drew 
material for erecting a new dwelling, but nothing came of it. Probably 
this is the oldest framed building in the town. It certainly goes back to 
the days of Samuel Southwick, the very first occupant of this section, 
tinless the honor be claimed by William Browning, whose record is lost. 
Mr. Southwick came originally from Massachusetts, where he was reared 
among the Shakers till he was sixteen years old. Coming to Seneca county,^ 
he married, first, Subniit ^ West, in Junius, where she died. v' Her buriabut^^su^-j.^ ,^ 
"was said to be the first for a white woman in that town. By this marriage, 
he had only one child, who became Mrs. Ellis Ellinwood, of Rose. It was 
in 1815 or 1816 that Mr. Southwick came to Eose, buying very extensively 
from the Rose Nicholas tract. His second wife was Hannah Brown, also 
irom Massachusetts. By this marriage, he had eight children. After 
becoming the parent of this numerous progeny, he became convinced that 
the principles of his early rearing were the coriect rules for living, and 
accordingly sold out his possessions in Rose, and cast in his lot with the 
Shakers, located in Sodus. All his family went with him, except Lydia, , 
who married William Watkins, a Rose tanner, and the father of Mrs. 
Lawson Munsell. Southwick's oldest son, Lucius, was engaged to a fair 
young lady of Rose, but he broke the engagement to go with his father. 
In 1837 the Shakers went from Sodus to Mount Morris, Groveland, near 
Rochester. When he was between fifty and sixty years of age, Lucius left 
the Shakers, having married one of them, and passed the remainder of his 
life in East Rochester. The family was related to that of Ebeuezer Pierce, J- 
father-in-law of Simeon Barrett. The Miricks, who succeeded Southwick, 
were from Saratoga county originally, but they came to Rose from Cazeu- 
ovia. This name is invariably in Rose pronounced as though spelled 
Merrick. In Massachusetts, it is pronounced as spelled. Unquestionably 
the families are allied. Solomon Mirick, the piogenitor of the family, had 
been an extensive contractor and builder. His first wife and the mother 
of his children was Elizabeth Underwood. His second wife was the widow 
of Joel Weed, the mother of the widely known Thurlow Weed. He 
married her .in Syracuse, and she was a citizen of Eose till after Mr. 
Mirick's death, in 1839. After this event, she went to Kentucky, and 
there died. It was in 1828 that the family came to Rose and bought about 
300 acres of land from Southwick and Collins. From that date to the time 
of George Mirick's going west, few names were more prominent in town 



266 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 

affairs. There were eight children. Ira married Martha Lamb of North 
Rose, and till his moving; to Lyons was a very important factor in the 
business of the town. His headquarters were in Glenmark, where he has 
already been named. In the days of the militia, he was the lieutenant 
colonel of the regiment of which George Seelye was the colonel. He died 
last spring at a great age. His children were : Hiram, Guilford, Jackson, 
and three daughters. Hiram, the second son of Solomon Mirick, will be 
met soon, in the south ; Nelson did not live in Eose, but married and died 
in Pennsylvania ; George lived long south of the Valley ; Thomas married 
Sophronia Dickson, a sister of Dr. D., and died in 1841, leaving one 
daughter ; Henry, the youngest son, was a young man of great jiromise, 
who died in 1841, at the age of twenty-four years. The daughters were 
Amanda and Charlotte. The latter married Ebenezer Tyler, and moved to 
Ohio. The former became Mrs. David Holmes, and formerly lived west of 
the Valley. The orchard, still so prominent on the hill east of the i-oad 
north from Eose, is a memory of the Mirick planting. All the Mirick farm 
passed finally into the possession of Hiram, on whose going to Lyons, 
Charles B. Sherman came into possession, and this north part, including 
the old Southwick house, was passed over to his son, George, who had 
married Sybil Wilson. They worked here with a will, and finally held it 
unencumbered. At a comparatively early age, Mr. Sherman sold to one 
Burnham, and moved to the Valley. Burnham, who had grown mentally 
unbalanced in trying to keep his work train on the N. Y. Central E. E. out 
of the way of the regular trains, did not find farming to his liking, and so 
sold to Mordecai Cox. The latter did not hold it long, but sold and went 
to Rochester. He died in 1878, and is buried in Rose, as are also his wife 
Lovina, who died in 1863, and his son, George, in 1875. After Cox came 
Campbell. Over the way, opposite the house, is a field, known by the old 
settlers as the stone heap, an outcropping of the limestone ledge that has 
been successfully worked in North Eose. In this field was located the first 
Eose school-house, a log one, soon afterward burned. David Smith, the 
first Baptist minister in town, taught in it. Stephen Collins was a pupil 
here. 

A few rods south of Campbell's, a i-oad runs toward the west. On the 
south side is a building, lately repaired, belonging to Levern Wilson. 
For years it was just a little red house, built by Sauford Lackey, who sold 
to Joseph Childs, of Ontario county, and he to Joseph Andrus, a brother- 
iu-law of Ephraim Wilson. The widow of William Desmond owned it for 
a time, and in 1871 it was under the name of Edward Horn, wliom the 
widow, who was Lucinda Winchell, had married. Mr. Horn was English 
born, and after leaving this place, lived in Marion. 

Ephraim B. Wilson is the owner of the next house on the north side of 
the road, and the place is exceedingly interesting, in that Mr. Wilson has 



EOSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 267 

worked out all his possessions from the pristine wilderness. One of the 
best things that Eishraim ever did was his marrying Calista Flint, from 
Connecticut, a relative of " 'Square" Flint, a neighbor on the north. In 
all the struggle for a competence, she has done all that could be expected 
of a wife. It was in 1835 that Mr. Wilson came to the town and bought 
his lot, one of the last to be taken from the Nicholas purchase. In the 
fall he put up a log' house. In February following he was married. There 
were no roads and he went by marked trees. One side of his house was 
shingled, and when, later, he wished to shingle the other side, so deep 
was the snow he was able to carry the shingles up the roof, stepping from 
the banks. Snow lay three feet deep ujion the level. The house was 
built like a cob pile, and the places for doors and windows were cut out 
afterward. The doors were boards sinii)ly, and the windows were not 
over numerous. There was no fireplace, and for three or four weeks 
cooking was done by a stum^i fire. A well was dug, and for curbing or 
wall Mr. Wilson went to the woods and cut two lengths of buttonwood, 
hollow, and set them in. A crotched stick was set up for a sweep, and 
the thing was complete. For a few days the waters may have had the 
bitterness of those of Marah, but sweetness followed. During the entire 
summer, he was fixing his house. Sand was found four feet down and 
this was used in making mortar. Boards for the floor were obtained at 
Solomon Allen's saw-mill, just south. Partitions and windows followed, 
having used blankets before. Finally, having obtained some brick, Silas 
Munsell built a chimney and brick oven. " 'Square" Flint came over and 
arranged the interior woodwork. The first farm work was to plant 
potatoes. His first lot of fifty-eight acres cost him •'f.^ per acre. The 
Winchell lot to the west, which he next bought, was the last remnant of 
the Nicholas tract. Children came to the log house rapidly, and then the 
girls wanted a new house. It was built, and Mr. Wilson found himself in 
debt. To raise it, he rented his own place, and went to Lyons and worked 
Hii'am Mirick's farm. When he returned, he had enough to make him 
square with the world. Surrounded by indications of his energy and 
honesty, Mr. Wilson is passing a very green old age, his capable and 
loving wife still by his side. As Mr. Wilson himself says, " she is a 
smart woman."' Among other relics, Mr. W. has a bar still in use, which 
was hewn from or split from a black ash fifty-four years ago. By "bar " 
is meant an instrument for stopping a hole or gap in a fence, an abbrevia- 
tion for barrier. It has nothing to do with hotel or restaurant bars. A 
total abstainer from stimulants and narcotics, Mr. Wilson has no use for 
such bars. Doubtless his life-long abstinence accounts for his vigorous 
age. The children in this family were many, and at one time there were 
seven of them in the Valley school. Their names are as follows : Sybil 
has already been met as the wife of George Sherman ; Augusta, also, wa^ 



268 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 

mentioned in District No. 6 as the wife of Lampson Allen ; Caroline 
married \\'illiam Colborn, formerly of Rose, but now of Wolcott ; Harlan 
P. married Carrie Snow, and was encountered in District No. 7 ; Martha 
W. is Mrs. Alonzo Post, of Butler; Mary, deceased, was twice married, 
first, to Joseph Butler and, second, to Chester Ayers, of Clinton, Mass. ; 
Emily, who married Burton Walker, of Lancaster, Mass.; EphraimB., Jr., 
who married Ella Armstrong ; Theron, unmarried, and a carpenter, lives 
in Rochester ( Davenport, Iowa ) ; Levern, the youngest, married Ida 
Osborn, a daughter of William, formerly of Rose, in District No. 8, but 
now in Lyons. They are at the old home and have one child, MoUie. 
( Now in Levern's house, east.) 

The western boundary of the district is reached when we come to the 
home of the widow of Amos S. Wyckoff. It is a comfortable white house 
(nearly all houses in the country are painted thus), and it succeeded one 
of the last occupied log houses in this part of Rose. The Wyckoffs have 
been mentioned in the Griswold district as once living near the Finch 
place, north of the school-bouse. Amos S. Wyckoff was born in Hunting- 
ton, New Jersey, and the fact that he was a nephew of Jacob Ferguson, of 
the corners, may have been an inducement for his western migration. He 
married Susan, daughter of Orrin Lackey. After marriage he lived for a 
time in New Jersey. Returning, he bought the Milo Lyman lot, back in 
the fields, between the Wayne Centre and this road. There was a mill on 
the lot, through which ran the Thomas creek. The log house, back in the 
lots, will be recalled by many. Objections being made finally to entering 
the farm from the south, land was bought on the north from the widow of 
Nathan Jeffers, and the whole farm of ninety-three acres abutted on this 
road. Mr. Wyckoff died in 1868, at the age of sixty-four years, but his 
widow is still active in good works. On calling, in 1889, I found her 
engaged in making cushions for the Methodist Church, then undergoing 
repairs, and of which she had long been a member. The Wyckoff children 
were : Orrin, now in Herkimer county, who married Minnie Hughson, of 
Clyde ; Lyman in Lyons, who married Lucy Chambers, of Wayne Centre ; 
Sarah, at home, and William, who married Mary Dewey, of Butler, and 
now manages the farm. He has one child, Edith. The Lyman lot was 
taken up by the second Jonathan Wilson, who raised the log house. After 
him was Henry G. Lyman, whom Milo followed. Wilson traded his 
interest with Lyman for four acres oS the west end of the Bassett lot, on 
Sodus street, in the Valley. 

Returning to the main road and resuming our southerly course, we shall 
pass, at our left, the well-kept village of the dead, the most considerable 
cemetery in town. Till recently the old part has been very much neglected, 
but it now looks as well as the newer portions. This is one of the oldest 
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the present residence of Mrs. Harvey Closs. Afterwards these were 
removed to the grounds now used. 

Even at the risk of mingling the grotesque and solemn, the story must 
be told that right here, years since, when a certain well-known Valley 
merchant, then young and brave, was courting a lady living Just on the 
confines of the Lyman district, a ghost made its appearance. Possibly it 
was at the hour when churchyards yawn and spirits do walk abroad. At 
any rate, lest the love-lorn young man might lose the sight "of "ye ghost," 
a clothes line had been strung across the road, over which the late 
traveller pitched headlong, and as he (W)righted himself he beheld the 
spook ; but his fear was not orthodox in the least. He picked up sundry 
convenient stones and let them fly in a way that put the white sheeted 
figure to ignominious flight. Then looking about for the rope, the gentle- 
man discovered, by certain marks, that it had been taken from his own 
store. He put it back in place and then had grace enough to ask no 
questions of a certain shame-faced clerk, a (s)Lyman, who bore evidence 
of having been out late the night before. 

On the east side of the road, before reaching the stone house, perhaps 
in the garden thereof, was formerly a small framed house, afterward 
removed and used as a tool house, opposite. This building is intimately 
connected with one of the best families ever identified with Rose, viz., 
that of Alpheus Collins, the eldest son of Thaddeus, 1st, whose purchases 
were about as early as any in Rose. The farm, of 130 acres, was a part of 
the large number of acres bought by the pioneer, that he might have his 
children about him. His sons, .some of them, went west, that they 
might have their children about them, and, in this widening process, 
descendants have reached Dakota. After all, the sons do not stay as 
fathers wish and calculate. The age is too uneasy and stirring. Alpheus 
Collins was born in Vermont, September 30th, 1790. When a boy, his 
parents removed to Phelps, Ontario county, where in ISll, October 
31st, he married Betsey Hall, born in New Jersey, October 5th, 1790. 
Shortly afterward, they came to this town, where they lived till 1829. 
Here their children, save one, were born; one son, born in the west, died 
in infancy. The oldest son, Selah Baxter, was born Is'ovember 12th, 
1812, and he married Pamela Green, December 26, 1833. He was a 
farmer, and resided, in 1888, in New Richmond, Allegan county, Michigan. 
His wife died in 1886. Josiah H. was born May 30th, 1814, and was 
married December 26, 1835, to Mary Brown, who died several years since. 
In 1888 he also was a farmer, in Lindon, Michigan. Wellington H., born 
May 12th, 1816, married Mary Ann Ward, of Butler, September 2d, 1840. 
Early in life he taught school, was a surveyor, and finally became a 
Methodist minister. In his denomination he held many important 
positions. He was twice a delegate to the General Conference, was a 



270 EOSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 

presiding elder, a powerful preacher aud much beloved by his people. 
He was presiding elder of the Detroit district at the time of his death, in 
1848. His wife died two or three years later. Walter D. was born 
December 14th, 1817, and became a Methodist minister and a missionary 
to the Cherokee Indians, in Indian Territory. His wife was Lodoweskei 
(called Lodi) Baker, a sister of the famous war detective ; he returned to 
Michigan in 1855, and died at his father's the same year ; his wife went to 
Texas, where she had property, and there died, in 1886. Isaac F. was 
born August 24th, 1819, and was also a Methodist minister and missionary 
to the Cherokees. December 22d, 1843, he married Mary Wolf, a daughter 
of the Cherokee chief. Coming back to civilization, he preached in Michi- 
gan for several years and then returned to the south, where his wife died. 
Marrying again, he went to Nebraska and died soon after. The only 
daughter, Esther D., born June 4th, 1821, was a cripple from birth, 
although a bright, intelligent girl. She died June 10th, 1849. Judson 
D., who was born February 12th, 1823, was graduated with first honors 
from Michigan University, was a professor in Albion College, and became 
a Methodist minister. As such, he was the first Methodist missionary to 
China. For five years he was the superintendent of missions in that 
country, but his health failing, he came back to America, by way of Cali- 
fornia, in 1851, hoping to regain his health, but he died in 1852, at his 
father's home. He was never married. William W., who was born May 
3d, 1825, has been a farmer, a surveyor and a machinist, and, having been 
graduated from the medical department of Michigan University in 1852, is 
now a physician in Albion, Michigan. He married Maria K. Palmer, ' 
July 5th, 1849. Being a seventh son, he is very properly a doctor. 
Sidney A., who was born May 8th, 1828, is a farmer, living in Lindon. 
His wife is Sylvia A. Eeed, whom he married November 15th, 1850. 
This record has been given thus at length, because I think it one that 
Rose may well be proud of. What has been the loss of the town in 
sturdy, manly worth, has obviously been the gain of the country ; for we 
see that the Collius lines have gone out through all the world. On leaving 
Eose in 1829, Alpheus Collins went, with his family, to Washtenaw 
county, in the then Territory of Michigan, near Ann Arbor. He took up 
an extensive farm, and became prominent in town and state affairs, having 
been supervisor, justice of the peace, etc., and a member of the convention 
that framed the Constitution for the state. In 1841 he went to a farm in 
the town of Lindon, on which he died, in 1871. His wife, a most devoted 
and helpful woman, died in 1870. Both were deeply pious and consistent 
members of the Methodist Church. To this farm came, after the Collinses, 
Hiram Mirick ; his wife was Mary B. Fuller, of the east part of this same 
school district. For many years this was his home, and here his children 
were reared. He was the builder of the stone house and barn opposite. 




OLD RESIDENTS. 

OlTVEK Col.VlN. I-.TION X.TlHlMAS. 

Iit\ MiKliK. Hiram Mikkk. (Jeokoe Seelye. 

ClIAlNCEV CiiJ.I.INS. GeOKGE MIKICK. 

JosEiMi Seei.ve. Mil. ton TdWN. Dei.os Seelye. Hakvey Closs. 



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The latter bears the date "1850." In the gable end of the largest barn 
may yet be seen the numerals 1817. out into and through the boards. If 
these truly represent the date of building, it must be one of the oldest 
structures in town. The ;Minek youths were Nelson, Amelia, Milton, Ira, 
James and Janette. All went with the parents to Lyons, where Nelson 
died. All became identified with the interests of that village. The 
daughters are at home with their mother, who, an aged lady, has survived 
her husband many years. She has always taken intense interest in politics 
and passing events. Married to a Democrat, she ever shared with him 
his views. Well posted, it was a scene to remember when she and her 
Eepublican and equally well-posted sister, Mrs. Almanda Seelye, had a 
friendly set-to on the state of the country. "I am surprised that so 
sensible a woman as you should persist in such insane ideas," was the 
sentence with which each ended many a protracted discussion. How 
much better do masculine disputants make out! After Mr. Mirick's sale 
to Charles B. Sherman, the farm was divided several times, so that it no 
longer was the large estate of the Southwicks and Collinses. After Hiram 
Mirick as dweller in the stone house, came Harvey Closs, who had sold 
his farm ou the corner, north, and had Iwught of Sherman this part of the 
old estate. His successor and present occupant, though the name of 
William K. Rider intervenes, is William Fisher, who came here from 
Palmyra in 1875. Mr. Fi.sher is a native of Holland, as was also his 
wife, Susannah Day. We can't help thinking that names in Holland have 
grown shorter since the times when that country sent to America her Van 
Eensselaers and Van Der Hoffens. Mr. F. came to America when a boy. 
fifty-five years ago. He has made good use of his time and opportunity, 
and is to-day one of the solid men of the county. Ten children have been 
born to him. but only five of them have been any considerable time in 
Eose. These are : Adrian, who married a Miss Koon, of Sodus, and 
now lives in Butler ; James, who married Alice Smith, of Eose, and lives 
in Palmyra; Charles, still at home; Cornelia, who married Byron 
Eumsey, and Lizzie, who married and lives in Arcadia. The other 
children live in the western part of the county. In addition to his regular 
farm work, Mr. F. maintains a well patronized mint still. Mrs. Fisher 
died November 23d, 1891, aged sixty-six years. (In 1893 Mr. Fisher 
married Mrs. Eachel [Beidick] Marshall, of Eochester, who brings 
with her to the old stone house her daughter Gertrude.) 

Still on the east side and going south, we find the house built by Mr. 
Fisher for his son, Adrian, but now occupied by his daughter, Cornelia 
Eumsey. Mr. Eumsey is a railroad man, and some time since was unfor- 
tunate enough to lose one of his arms. He is now in Connecticut in the 
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272 ROSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 

Romaine C. Earless and family hold the next place, and the location is 
noteworthy as indicating the site of the first home of Thaddeus Collins, 
2d, who built a small house here, on his marriage with Harriet Shepard, 
and here he lived for a number of years, at any rate past 1829, for in that 
year George Seelye's first wife, Mrs. Collins' sister and the writer's grand- 
mother, died here. Years afterward, the building was moved down into- 
the village and is now the small house on Main street occupied by Daniel 
Johnson, a few doors beyond Pimm's Hotel. The present house was built 
by Mr. Earless, generally called -'Doc," who combines the vocations of 
lawyer, dentist and pension agent. I believe that the majority of recipients 
of government bounty in Rose had their claims or cases presented by Mr. 
E. He was born in Hoosic, N. Y., away up on the Bennington battle field, 
though Vermont celebrates the victory as peculiarly one belonging to her. 
If once started, '' Doc" will tell the whole story of the battle and how New 
York's reputation is overborne by the Green Mountain boys. Also when 
it comes to narrating the deeds of the Heavy Xinth, Earless is without a 
rival. As he was a member of that regiment. Company H, he feels that 
the reputation of the organization is, in a measure, in his keeping. Mr. 
Earless' wife was Helen J. Thompson, of Saratoga county. Himself a 
twin, he has made the record good by being the father of twin boys. His 
children are Carrie H., who married Wm. H. Moulton, of Lockport ; the 
twins, Clayton L. and Clinton J.; Arthur F., and Elmo E. One child, an 
infant daughter, died in 1S74. Clayton has recently married Lena Mark- 
ham, of Eose, and Clinton, who prints the Rose Counsel and Times, married 
Jennie Hickok. She died in ISSO. Arthur F. married James Colborn's 
daughter, Eosa Belle. Mr. Earless came to Eose in 18.5S, and, before 
building his present residence, constructed several in other parts of the 
village. 

Joseph Durant, who lives next, married a Tarbell, whose mother is the 
owner of the very pretty house. The Durants have one child, George. 

Going back to the west side and beginning south of Mr. Fisher's, we 
shall find a series of lots extending a number of rods back into the level 
region lying westward of the village. Several of these are ten acres in 
extent. Ira T. Soule owns the first house, though on his north side 
Stephen Waite has a lot of seven acres. Ira is an old friend of the writer, 
for they were fellow members of the Ninth Heavy Artillery. After war's 
alarms were over, Ira returned to the pursuits of peace, and essayed the 
business of painting and paper hanging. He beat a drum in war times, 
and has been interested in all the musical enterprises of the village. At 
one time his father, his brother and himself were all in the band. He 
found a wife in Dr. Dickson's daughter, Eose, who died April 3rd, 1891, 
aged thirty-five years. Building a house here on this lot, he has begun the 
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KOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 273 

baby only a few months old. He has lost one child, Wyman. I never 
envied Ira so much as when, marehinj; along with gun and the inevitable 
forty rounds, he strolled by my side with only his drum. Ira says that at 
Monocacy, where we were sacrificed, he just jammed that drum down over 
a gate post and lighted out. As a drum it was of no earthly use to the 
Confederate finder. (Mr. S. was married, October 20th, 1892, to Miss 
Kate Youngs, of Detroit, Mich.) 

A vacant lot of ten acres, belonging to Charles Tillson, follows, then the 
neat home of Joseph Talton, an excellent ditcher and layer of ground tiles. 
Mr. T. and his wife, who was Catherine Dring, were born in South 
Witham, Lincolnshire, England. Next we arrive at the home of Stephen 
Waite. The latter is a native of Massachusetts, coming here from Great 
Barrington with the Harmons, whose second daughter, Abbie, he married. 
They have two daughters — AUie, who married George H. Oliver, of Clyde, 
and lives in Eochester, and Ella. Mr. Waite was a member of the Ninth 
Heavy Artillery, and was wounded at Cedar Creek. He follows the trade 
of a painter. This house was the old John Harmon home, and here John 
Harmon died. Mrs. Waite died in November, 1891. 

The next house, in which Lucien Osgood and family live, was built by 
Orrin Sherman, who sold to Joel N. Lee. It was to this place that Mr. 
Lee came when he left his farm, a mile or so north. Here he and his wife 
died. Their daughter, Mrs. Theresa Kingsley, held the place for a time 
and then sold to Lucien. The latter has been met in different places — in 
Districts No. 7 and 6. After the death of Eudora Seelye, his first wife, he 
married Matilda Wickwire, and has a family of five children, viz., Eveline, 
Herbert, Eudora, Ray and Grace. Mr. Osgood is a son of Artemas 
Osgood, and he maintains all the traditional uprightness of the family, 
being a member of the Baptist Church, a justice of the peace, and a- 
straightforward man in every respect. 

The next house, built by '-Doc" Earless, is owned by James C. Church, 
of Clyde, and is occupied by Arthur T. Barless. 

Chas. Relyea built the adjoining house, now owned by Julia (Sedore) 
Milem and occupied by Dr. F. H. Hallett. This gentleman is from Huron, 
though born in Palmyra, and his wife is Katie Scott, from Ontario, 
Canada. They have a son, E, Bruce. The doctor is a recent comer to Rose, 
but he is already winning golden oijinions. (Mr. and Mrs. Milem are now 
residing here, 1893.) 

George Adelbert Sherman lives in the next house. In Rose, young and 
old call him " Deb." He combines many callings in his trade, being ready 
to drive a well, repair an engine, or print an advertisement, His lineage 
is from George and Charles B. Sherman, already met. He married Hannah 
Walmsley, of Rose, and has five children — Leon A., Florence E., Nina S. 

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27-4 ROSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 

and Charles Ephraim, whose names recall two of his great- grandfathers, 
and Elsie May. The house and barn are of Mr. Sherman's building. 

The next lot marks the site of Chauncey Collins' barn, burned some 
years ago, and the final place before reaching the corner is the house built 
by Mrs. Lampson Allen, who, some time since, came hither from her farm 
in District No. (j. The site is that of the first Methodist Church. Her 
younger daughter, Florence, having graduated from the Albany Normal 
School, is a teacher in Massachusetts. 

On the east side of the road, a few rods north, is the most desirable 
building place in the village, and here lives the widow of Harvey Closs. 
With her, for some time, have resided D. C. Markham, a retired lawyer 
from Syracuse, and his wife, who is a cousin of Mrs. Closs. To this spot 
belongs much of the Collins history, so bound up in the early annals of 
the town. The first Thaddeus Collins was Massachusetts born, and like 
many of that state, in the latter part of the eighteenth centiTry, sought a 
home in Vermont, where several of his children were born. But the Green 
Mountains were not sufficiently inviting, and he brought his lares and 
penates to Phelps, Ontario Co., very late in the century. One more move, 
in 1S14, brought him to this his final haven. His wife was Esther Foster, 
a half sister of Jonathan Melviu, a noted name in Rose history. He was a 
soldier during the Revolution, and also in 1812. On coming to this wil- 
derness, he bought 400 acres of the Rose-Nicholas tract, located just in the 
present village. There was only one road then, viz., the one extending 
from Clyde to Wolcott, and it indicates taste on his part in building his 
log house near the centre of his purchase and on the most sightly place in 
it. At this time there was only one building near and that was a log 
house, near the present home of Frank Closs. My grandfather's notes 
make this the property of Charles Woodward, but it is elsewhere ascribed 
to Capt. John Sherman. Mr. Collins placed his son, Thaddeus, Jr., next 
north, and then Alpheus. Foster was to the northwest, where Andrus is 
now, on the old Chatterson farm; Stephen in the same direction, but 
nearer; Chauncey remained at home. There were also two daughters, 
Esther and Sally ; the former married George Wilson, of West Vienna, 
Ontario Co. ; the latter became Mrs. Uriah Wade, and moved to Michigan. 
This first generation of the Collins family died in 1S2S and 1844. Their 
last home is on the land that was devoted by them to burial purposes. 
Chauncey B. Collins married Caroline (Appleby) Thomas, the widow of 
Nathan W. As the village grew, the paternal acres lessened till, on his 
moving to Clyde, there was little more than the house and lot left. The 
children of Mr. and Mrs. Collins were Josephine and Louis Dell. The 
daughter became the wife of Aaron Vanderburgh, of Clyde (now living in 
Grand Rapids, Mich.), and died in 1879. The son, for some years a resi- 
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died March 12th, 1874. Mr. C, who is a true disciple of Nimrod and 
Isaak Walton, flourishes in a vigorous old age, a notable figure in Clyde. 
Among other dwelleis in this house was Dr. J. M. Home, who, a native 
of New Hampshire and a graduate of Harvard Medical School, '55, came 
here as the successor of Drs. Whedou and Neeley. He now resides in 
Boston. 

There is just one building more on this side of the street, and that is the 
brick structure owed to William Deady. Were it to be destroyed by an 
earthquake shock or other means, the beauty of the village would not be 
lessened in the slightest degree. Built as a storehouse, sold to Darwin 
Dickinson, who continued its use thus, and since occuijied as a hardware 
store, when used at all ; its upper story, either empty or employed as a 
lodge room, latterly for the Good Templars, — -there never was a moment 
when it was not entirely out of place. When Rose gets her village 
improvement society — and it can't come any too soon — there will be many 
changes in the topography of this village of ours. In some other place, 
this edifice would be all right, but where it is, it is like a sore thumb, 
always in the way. Suppose it were to he removed, and the road entering 
the Valley from the east to be extended in a direct line past the Baptist 
Church, thus forming a large triangle, to be enclosed or lef^ as a common, 
does any one hesitate to say that our already beautiful village would be 
vastly more interesting ? In the centre of this might be the soldiers' 
monument, which some day should recall the prowess of the sons of Rose 
in the Rebellion. I would have the old well, long since filled up, dug out 
and a pump placed in it for public use. When this time comes, and let us 
hope that I am not portraying a Utopia, the Presbyterian Church will 
come out from its hiding place, though to accomplish this effectually, one 
more removal will be necessary, viz., that of the unsightly evaporator, 
which has too long cut off the south site of the church. I hope I am not 
misunderstood. Evaporators and storehouses are useful and necessary, 
but they are better in other places than in those where they hide public 
edifices and displease rather than gladden the eye. 

. On the south corner of Sodus street is the house of Mrs. Emily Vanderoef, 
whose late husband, William, himself a carpenter, built here. As Mrs.V. 
says, it was built by inches, beginning forty years ago. The place is the 
old John Bassett home. His house was further south, nearer the site of 
the church, and his blacksmith shop was about where the present house is. 
The old house was moved to the west, and was long the home of Matthew 
Crisler. The Bassetts sold to Henry Lyman, and he to Vanderoef. Mrs. 
V. has only one son, Clarence E. (The house is now owned and occupied 
by George A. Collier. ) 

Sodus, West or Cooper street, west of Mrs. Vanderoef's, the first 
house, was begun by Parsons Hunu and finished by Rev. Charles Baldwin, 



276 EOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 

after his retirement from the active ministry. Mr. B. and his interesting- 
family are recalled by many. He died in 1879, at the age of forty-eight 
years, and was buried in Rose. His daughters — Flora, Mattie and Nettie 
— all married Methodist ministers, and the mother makes her home with 
them. The place is now owned by Mrs. Wilkins, the widow of the late 
Rev. Andrew W., of the Baptist denomination. He was twice the pastor 
of this church in Rose — first, from 1845 to 1849, and second, from 1881 to 
1884. In March of the latter year he resigned the pastorate. In April he 
moved from the parsonage to this house, and in September he was moved 
to a narrower one in the cemetery. No one has other than the most 
affectionate memory of this loyal laborer in the Lord's vineyard. He was 
born in Eaton, Madison county ; his wife, Laura J. Barnes, in Ira, Cayuga 
county. A faithful, helping wife, the peojile of her husband's old parish 
are glad that her home is among them. There are four Wilkins boys, and 
all save the second are graduates of Rochester University. Hervey D. 
is a very successful teacher of music in Rochester ; Hartwell A. is a 
business man in New York City, and was a member of the 75th New York 
Regiment during the Rebellion ; Frank is a Baptist minister in Davenport, 
Iowa (now in Chicago) ; while Fred. H., the youngest, is in the electric 
light business. It is noteworthy that the entire record of this house is one 
of parsons. 

Samuel Lyman resides in the next house. He is of that Lyman stock 
noted in District No. 3. His wife, Sarah Vanderburgh, was from the same 
district. They have two children — George Frank, who married Florence 
Dodds, and is In Detroit, and Anna E., at home. Jonathan Wilson built 
the house and John Nichols once owned it. 

Next is a house that was built by R. C. Barless, who sold to Silas 
Holcomb, and in it both he and his wife died ; likewise their daughter, 
Mi-s. Francis M. Johnson. It now stands in the name of the latter's 
husband. The Johnson sons were three : Frank E., now of Salem, Mass. ; 
William, and George. 

The house adjoining Mr. Johnson's was the long-time home of Lawrence 
Crisler. His widow still holds it. He bought of Julius C. Smith, now of 
Sodus. We have encountered the name of Crisler frequently in Rose. 
The father of the family was Martin, who was from Herkimer county 
originally. He settled first in Savannah, where his wife, Mary Frank, 
died. He had married her in the same town. He died in Rose. The 
children were : Matthew, a long resident on this street ; Lawrence ; Adam, 
met in York settlement ; John, of District No. 7 ; Mary Ann married 
George Bnrch, in Oswego : Jane, in Herkimer county ; Margaret ; Eliza- 
beth married Edward Dean ; Jeremiah, formerly on this street, and Nancy, 
who married Samuel Mclntyre. Lawrence Crisler, like all the men of that 
name, was a cooper and worked long at his trade. His wife's maiden 



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name was Mary Ann Wilson, a daughter of Jonathan. Their children are : 
Willis Addie, who is Mrs. Wallace Williams, of Niagara county, and John, 
at home. Mr. C. died August 18th, 1874. His wife has woven many 
yards of carpeting, one of the very few to continue the trade once so 
common in Rose. 

Mrs. Sarah Knapp dwells next. She is a daughter of the late " 'Squire " 
Philander Mitchell. Her husband, Hiram, was Sodus born. They have 
one son, Fred E. The house has had many owners and occupants. It 
was built by R. C. Earless, and owned in succession by Jerry Crisler, 
Abner Osborn, P. E. Tindall, John Winchell and Albert Harper. (Mrs. 
Lucinda Mitchell now resides with Mrs. Knapp.) 

Matthew Crisler, the oldest of the brothers, lived for many years in the 
next house. This is the old John Bassett residence, standing formerly 
near Mrs. Vanderoef's house. His wife was Hannah Harmon, and she, 
with her sister, Mrs. Isaac Eace, still occupies the house. Mr. C. died in 
May, 1890. Near by was the cooper shop where the brothers. Matthew 
and Lawrence, made many barrels, used in sending abroad the products of 
this fertile town. 

In a house painted dark yellow, lives Willis Crisler. It was built by 
Jonathan Wilson, a brother of Ephraim B., of this district. Wilson for 
many years was the most noted shoemaker in town. Quick and racy in 
speech, his cobbler's bench was usually surrounded by many listeners. It 
was a favorite joke of his that he had married only one-half of his wife, 
Mary Ann Caywood, meaning that she weighed twice as much as she did 
when they were wedded. She was of the Caywood family once living iu 
the extreme southwest part of Rose. Her grandfather was that John Cay- 
wood, a Eevolutionary veteran, who lived to be more than a hundred years 
old. The Wilsons had only two children — Mary Ann Crisler, Willis' 
mother, and Walter, who died in 1860, a young man of twenty-five years. 
He had mariied Caroline Genung. Mrs. Jonathan Wilson died about 
four years since, surviving her husband several years. Willis Crisler, 
Jonathan's grandson, married Hattie Hughes, of Herkimer county, and 
has one child, Florence. He is a carpenter by trade. 

The next house was built by George Seager, now living north of the 
Valley. In it died several years since, Daniel Converse, father of Eugene, 
who lives in the lower part of Griswold's. It is now owned and occupied 
by John Osborn, son of Abner. 

Dwight Bradburn, who married Mary Ann Miller, built and occupies the 
next house. He is a son of David, who lives next west. Mr. Bradburn 
is a brother of Andrew, who once lived on the west road, north, in the 
Covell district. His wife was Jane Winchell, Jacob's daughter, and iu 
her home, her father died. They have only one son, Dwight, though they 
lost Nelson at eleven, and Louisa Ann at about twenty years of age. The 



278 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 

house was built by Daniel Johnson, now on the Main street. Mr. Bradburn 
died recently. 

A very small house owned and built by John Gibbs, now in Eochester, 
follows. At present it is unoccupied. 

When the Chauncey Collins house was fixed over, a part of the back L 
was moved down to this street, and it is the very next edifice. In it dwells 
James Johnson, having a very lively family of three sons and two girls. 
Very few people of the African race have made Eose their dwelling place, 
but the Johnsons, James and Daniel, belong to this class, and are reputable 
citizens. (Mr. Johnson has recently erected here a fine residence.) 

The expression, "the last ditch," is one with which Americans are 
familiar, and we reach it when we come to the home of Jacob Lyman. 
Beyond him is the famous Thomas creek, by the perseverance of General 
Adams transformed into the beginning of the Sodus canal. Mr. Lyman 
has five and a half acres of land, a small house, but no children. His 
wife was Caroline Vanderpool in girlhood, coming from the eastern part of 
the state. His father was Levi Lyman, a half brother of Jesse. Thereby 
Jacob is a first cousin of Milo, who lives in the Griswold district. Levi 
lived further along on the creek, near the old Wyckoff possessions. His 
wife was Maria Winchell, and their children were: Frank E., now in 
Michigan ; Catherine, the wife of Jeremiah Crisler ; Ella died in infancy, 
and Jacob. 

Beyond the ditch, on the south side, are fields belonging to Chaddock, 
Hickok and Jeffers. Crossing to the north side are found several acres, 
nine or ten, belonging to Jackson Valentine. Then comes, toward the 
east, a like amount, owned and tilled by the late William Thomas. This 
brings us to the ditch again, on whose banks Foster Moslein has his 
abattoir, this being on Thomas' land. (Now Leader.) 

Crossing the bridge, we come first to the home which the well-known 
" Tom " King so recently left for his final one in the Rose cemetery. Few 
Valley people fail to recall the stalwart form of King, so long in care of 
horses at the village hotels. During the War, "Tom" was severely 
wounded during the seven days' fight at Gaines' Mill. It was the reopened 
wound that finally caused his death. His wife was Hannah Taylor, from 
Lyons, who continues to live with her children in the old home bought 
from Calvin Winchell, now in Xorth Eose. Their children are : Ambrose, 
in Michigan ; Helen, the wife of Fred Goodnow ; Grace, Eliza, and Lena. 
Mr. King was born in England, and, in the Eebellion, was a member of 
Co. B, 27th N. Y. S. Vols. 

A new but vacant house follows. It belongs to Jackson Valentine, who 
moved hither the old shop, once near his store, on the north. It is doubtful 
whether Mrs. Hannah Marriott would .recognize it as the place in which 
she, as Miss Genung, for years sold hats and general millinery. 



ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 279 

The widow of "Jerry" Crisler resides in the next house. She was 
Catharine Lyman, a daughter of Levi. Mr. Crisler was the youngest of the 
brothers, long famous as coopers. During the "War, he served two enlist- 
ments : first, in the 33d N. Y., and afterward in the 45th Engineers. He 
was a very large man, the heaviest in the family. On the 1.5th of January, 
1887, while logging in Seymour Covell's woods, he was killed by the 
springing back of a tree which he had felled. He was in his fifty- first 
year. The children are : Marsden, who married Alice Green, of Glenmark ; 
Minnie M., the wife of Albert Shepard, of Xorth Eose ; Adam, and Maud. 
Few would recognize Marsden by that name, for in town he is known as 
" Manny " ; he has one child, Elmer H. MinnieShepard has two children, 
Delbert and Frank. 

Samuel Bigelow built the next house and sold it to Postmaster Houghton, 
and he to the present owner, Sally Burch. 

It is always a pleasure to meet a member of the Samuel Lyman family, 
and in the next dwelling is David, of the good old Connecticut stock. His 
wife was Emma Chalkcr, fiom Seneca county. The bouse was built in ]iart 
by Philander Winchell. Mr. Lyman bought of Eron N. Thomas, and has 
extensively repaired the premises. 

Charles E. Tillson, our next neighbor, resides in a house built by Peter 
Hilts, whom we met on the State road, north of George Worden's, in the 
Jeffers district. Mr. T. is from Camden, and is a carpenter by trade. He 
has four children — Etta, Stantou, Arthur and Frank. (Etta is Mrs. Geo. 
D. Johnson, and Arthur died March 30, 1892.) 

The widow of Thomas Markham is found in the next place. Mr. M. was 
from Massachusetts. He left two daughters — Nina, at home, and Lena, 
recently married to Clayton L. Earless. The house was constructed by 
Adam Crisler, and by him sold to David Bradburn. 

In the cabinet shop near, Judson L. Garlick has made and repaired 
furniture for thirty-eight years. Like many other trades and industries, 
cabinet- making by hand has had to yield to machinery, though the need of 
repairs in machine-made goods has given Mr. G. something to do. He is 
the youngest son of that large family noted in the North Eose series. His 
wife was Mary Buckingham, born in Milford, Connecticut. For twenty- 
four years she was an invalid, and for fifteen years was deranged in mind. 
Her condition was doubtless induced by the death of her daughter, Emma 
A., by burning. This sad accident happened twenty years ago. Mrs. 
Garlick died in 1887, leaving one daughter, Martha Jane. This place Mr. 
Garlick bought of his brother Henry. No more exemplary member of the 
Presbyterian Church lives in Eose than our friend, Judson Garlick. The 
missionary Judson, whose name he bears, could not have been more 
attentive to religious duties than this Christian, who for long years has not 
missed, when in health, a meeting in his church. 



280 KOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 

The bouse next east was built by John Nichols, sold to Sheldon E. 
Overton, and then to Mrs. "William A. Mix. Alexander Harper is the 
present occupant. He was born in Galen, one of that family frequently 
encountered in our Eose rambles. He married Nancy Bivins, and they 
have five children — Daniel, who married Cora Crisler, a daughter of John 
of District No. 7, and lives in Eose; Gardner, who works for Joel Lee; 
Frank married Elizabeth York and lives in Huron ; Mary, wife of Aaron 
Ehinehart, in Huron also, and Charles, who married Esther Terry, and 
lives near the Hiram Gordon place, in the extreme southern part of the 
town. Mr. Harper was a member of Company H, Ninth Heavy Artillery. 

Judson Lackey was the builder and first owner of the next house. He 
sold to Charles S. "Wright. William O. Horton is the occupant, with his 
family. He is a Vermonter, a native of Derby ; served in the 7th Vermont 
during the "War, and came to Eose in 1866 ; his wife was Sarah Brewer, 
and their children are Mary, William, Hattie and Earl. He is a shoemaker, 
having a bench in Collier's store. (In December, 1892, Mary became Mrs. 
James T. Harper, and in January, 1893, Hattie was married to Edward 
Weeks.) 

"'Squire" Ellinwood holds the next residence. It was built by 
Josephus Collins a long time ago, and by him was sold to the " 'Squire." 
The latter was a justice of the peace for more than thirty years. He came 
to Eose when a little more than twenty years old, and taught school in the 
Valley and at Stewart's corners. His subsequent wife, Mary Lee, daughter 
of Lyman, went to his school at Stewart's. For a time after marriage, he 
farmed on the present Wickwire place. He has been school commissioner 
and overseer of the poor, and was for many years postmaster. The line of this 
Ellinwood branch is as follows : Ananias E., was born in Massachusetts, 
moved to Paris, now Kirkland, Oneida county, where he reared a large 
family of children ; he was a half brother of the Jonathan who lived east 
of the Valley ; His son, Eeuben, was nine years old when the migration 
was made to the Mohawk country. The latter' s wife was Emma Hart of 
Oneida county ; he, too, had a large family ; but we are interested only in 
that portion which came to this section. They were Valorous, George W., 
Orlando and Louise. The first and the last have been met, and Orlando 
resides in the south part of the village. The first marriage of George W. 
has already been stated ; his only child by this marriage was Ella I. ; he 
wedded, second, Jane Eussell, by whom he had Mary, the wife of Clayton 
Allen, of District No. 6. Ella married Philip Turner, and died in 1873, 
leaving a child, Nellie, now with her grandfather. Turner's career is 
worthy of note. Coming from Canada, he was above twenty-one years old 
before he learned to read. In Eed Creek he was fortunate enough to meet 
the famous teacher, " Nabby Bunce." From her instruction, he passed 
with marvelous speed to the Eed Creek Academy, and was soon a teacher 



KOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 281 

himself. He shouldered a gun during the War as a member of Company 
H, 96th N. Y. Volunteers, and after the strife he essayed the profession of 
law ; but death cut him down in 1870, at the age of thirty-five years. He 
died having the hearty respect of all his fellow townsmen. After Cleve- 
land's administration came in, the " 'Squire " was relegated out of the 
post office, and since then bis time has largely been given to reflection and 
reminiscence. 

Where the Rev. Charles Ray lately resided, the Presbyterians have for 
some years maintained their parsonage. lu the remote past it was held 
by Samuel Hoffman, then by Hiram Salisbury. For a time it was the 
Methodist parsonage. After the burning of the church, Stephen Waite 
owned, then the Presbyterian Society. Rev. Mr. Ray has an interesting 
history, having been born in Calcutta, India. His father was in the employ 
of the East India Co., whose name recalls Charles Lamb and his life-long 
drudgery in the dingy London offices of the company. Mr. Ray came to 
America in 1838, was graduated at Union College, and from the Princeton 
Theological School, thereby rendering his orthodoxy above suspicion. Of 
his college days under the noted Dr. Eliphalet Nott, he retains very 
striking memories. Some poition of his early life was passed in Middle- 
bury, Wyoming county. His wife died recently, leaving three children — 
Charles H. Ray, the distinguished lawyer of Lyons ; Mrs. Dr. Silvers, of 
Youngstown, Ohio, and Ella, at home. Only recently Mr. Ray resigned 
his pastorate. (In 1893 the home of the Rev. Nathan Bangs Knapp, 
who, though pastor of the Presbyterian Church now, in his Christian 
names, bears traces of Methodist origin. He is a graduate of Amherst 
College and of Andover Seminary ; was born in Rochester, and has been 
connected with several churches in this state.) This brings us to the resi- 
dence of Mrs. Lampson Allen andMain stxeet again. 

Passing to the south, the Presbyterian Church follows, of which there 
will be more anon ; next the unsightly evaporator, a veritable tire-trap, 
owned by William Deady, whose storehouse it was for a time, and then we 
are confronted by the building that is set upon a hill and cannot be hid. 
Though now the property of Harmon Miner, it is filled with Valentine 
memories. When Dr. Peter Valentine erected this, his beautiful house, in 
1821, the approaches and surroundings were very different from those of 
today. A gradual ascent led up to it, and the building was not in the 
dilapidated condition that is noted now. The " bee hive," as it is called, 
swarms with occupants ; but it is far from being a thing of beauty. The 
Valentines were from Kingsbury, Washington county. The first of whom 
I have any note, was Henry, of Hackett, N. J. His son, Jacob, was the 
Kingsbury father whose sons were Henry, Peter, Asahel, Alexander and 
Stephen. There was a daughter, Rebecca. Of these children, Henry lived 
in Galen for a time, while Peter and Asahel only, became residents of 



282 ROSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 

Rose. The Litter was met in the western part of District I^o. 3 ; Peter was 
the first physician in Rose ; his studies, before the days of medical colleges, 
were passed with Dr. Richard Sill, of Sandy Hill, and after this doctor, 
Peter Valentine named his oldest sou. The doctor's diploma as a medical 
practitioner is his certificate of admission to the Seneca County Medical 
Society. This bears date June 10th, 1820, and is signed by M. A. Bellows, 
president, and Jesse Fifield, secretary. Dr. Valentine's wife was Rachel 
Bishop, one of the numerous family to the northward. The children were 
Richard S., Jackson, W. H. Harrison, Cornelia and Naomi. In this lot 
there were twelve acres, extending from the Presbyterian Church to the 
home of the late Dr. Dickson. Peter Valentine was a conspicuous man in 
the early days of the town. He was the first supervisor and he held the office 
nine years. During the continuance of the office of town superintendent of 
schools, he and his son, Richard, filled it every year but one. In person 
he was short and stout, weighing 19s pounds. In disposition he was gentle 
and lively, and always left a cheerful impression in the sick room. He 
died in 1857, and his wife the year following. Richard S. Valentine, M. D. 
from the Albany School, was associated with his father, but consumption 
carried him off in 1856, at the early age of thirty years. He had married 
Ann M. Hickok, who survived him only two years. An only son, Frank 
H., was graduated from the Albany Normal School, and for some time 
resided in Galen. He is now editorially employed on the Bural New 
Yorker, published in New York City. Jackson Valentine will be seen in 
the next place to the south; Harrison, in Rose, known as "Harry," we 
have met as the son-in-law of Charles Oakes ; Cornelia married David 
Town, and moved to Wisconsin ; while Naomi married Oliver Blanchfield, 
and lives in WiscoDSin. The old Valentine mansion is now the property 
of Harmon Miner, who is a son of the Riley Miner who once lived to the 
northwest of the village. He is a stone mason by trade, as was his father 
before him. At present he is running a meat market and has done some 
farming. He married Lillie Stone, a daughter of Eben and Lucy Stone, of 
Galen. They have four children living — George S., Mabel, Birdett N. and 
Louie H. Several years ago they lost two boys, Martin L. and Edward P., 
in Battle Creek, Michigan. (Recently the " bee hive " was moved back, 
over the hill, and in time the hill itself will disappear through the digging 
away of the gravel of which it is composed.) 

A small edifice standing at the foot of the hill and a trifle north of Mr. 
Valentine's store, belongs to Mr. Harmon Miner, and it has harbored a 
great variety of occupations. 

Formerly a small building stood between this shop and the store. Mr. 
Valentine has recently moved it over to the lower part of Sodus street, 
and made of it, with additions, a tenement house. 



ROSE NEIGHBOBHOOD SKETCHES. 283 

The store so loug known as Valentine's was erected in 1836 by Dr. 
Valentine, and in it Hiram and Ira Mirick, with George Closs, began 
business. They ran the same for two years and then sold to Wra. S. 
Worthington. He passed the enterprise to Dr. Peter himself, who un- 
dertook, with Chauncey B. Collins, the running of a store. This was in 
1S39. Both were wholly inexperienced, and after two years of labor, they 
had the experience and the public the money, for then they failed. For 
two years the building served as an office for Drs. Valentine and Plenry 
Van Ostrand. The latter is now living in Albion, Mich. In 1844 Hiram 
Salisbury, who was of New Lebanon, Shaker rearing, filled the store with 
goods, but in 1846 he sold to Hiram Mirick, and he to Charles S. Wright 
in 1848. The latter remained till 1853, when he moved into his new 
building, now Fredendall's. The structure was practically vacant until 
1860, when Mr. Valentine opened it again as a general country store, and for 
thirty years it has been one of the noteworthy features of the village. The 
village store disputes with the tavern the possession of political discus- 
sions and current gossip. Particularly on Saturday nights, it is the 
headquarters of those who come from the farms to find out what the world 
has been doing, and at other times the number of idlers in town can be 
pretty accurately gauged by the representation standing in front of the 
store or seated on barrels within. As to the contents of such a store, it 
would be exceedingly difficult to describe their scope, save to say that they 
include almost everything. Such a store is of necessity a Macy's or a 
Wanamaker's on a small scale. 

In Eose, Jackson Valentine is known as "Jack." This is never an in- 
dication of disrespect, for familiar terms are easily applied in country 
towns. I never heard his children thus address him, nor total strangers, 
but old and young refer to him as above. When we consider the positions 
that he has held in town, the peculiarity of the situation becomes all the 
more curious. While people may have errands at Collier's and Freden- 
dall's stores, they do the same business at "Jack's." I am inclined to 
think that this condition of affairs is the result of the thorough confidence 
and esteem in which he is held iu his native town. Prominent business 
men in Rose can not recall the day when his benign face did not beam over 
the contents of the store. He is by far the best known man in town. Be- 
side, he is a veritable treasure house of information pertaining to Eose, 
and I hereby acknowledge my obligations. In his earlier days, he was a 
teacher in the districts near, and in this capacity we may suppose that he 
met his wife, then Miss Christiann Dodds, a daughter of William, who lived 
iu the Gris wold neighborhood. They have four children — Mary E., the 
wife of George A. Collier, of Rose; Charles A., at home; Marvin J., in 
Rochester, and Bert, also at home. 



284 ROSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 

The next building, to the south, is Mr. Valentine's house, which he con- 
structed in 1862. There used to be in front of the space a small build- 
ing, which was moved, first to the north of the store, and then to the 
Wayne Centre road. This chapter cannot be dismissed until mention has 
been made of Mr. Valentine's public services. He has been supervisor of 
Eose for fourteen terms, a length of service exceeded in but one instance 
in Wayne county, and has been two terms a member of the state Assembly, 
lu no instance has he been other than a painstaking, honest, conscientious 
public servant. In cases where his wisdom has intervened, his fellow 
townsmen have been gainers in a marked manner. 

The white, square edifice south of Valentine's is the Town or Memorial 
Hall. By no means pretentious in appearance, it serves a very useful pur- 
pose in Eose'. (The local post of the G. A. R. has rooms in it now.) 

The estate of the late Dr. Dickson follows. It is to-day just as he left 
it on his death, in 1874. The large barn was erected for the crops raised 
on the fifteen acres lying back of the road. The stone building next the 
street was built by the doctor for an ofiice, with a story above for a select 
school. It would be easier to name the kinds of business that have not 
been in this building than those that have. At jireseut, from the second 
story, Clayton J. Earless publishes his lioxe Fai-ni'^r^'i Counsel ami Times, 
for which enterprise all possible success is besought. The house was 
built more tlian fifty years ago, but meantime it has undergone extensive 
repairs and changes. Dr. John J. Dickson, or in popular parlance. Dr. 
"Dick," was born May 25th, 1807, in Kingsbury, Washington county. 
At first he was John Dickson, Jr., but later he chose to insert the initial. 
His medical diploma was from Geneva, and he practiced his profession 
for many years. He was at times a justice of the peace, and in 184.5 was 
sent to the state Legislature. His wife was Sophia Letitia, daughter of 
Charles Thomas. She was then the widow of Isaac Crydenwise. A son, 
Isaac, by this marriage, had his named changed to Dickson. She died in 
1848, and for his second wife the doctor married Mrs. Jane (Jones) Bell, 
a daughter of the "Uncle Sammy" who lived on the Butler confines of 
District Ko. 7. By his first marriage, he was the father of Ensign L. 
Dickson, well known to all Valley people; by his second, he had F. Cora, 
better known as Ora, who married a Mr. White, of Locke, N. Y. Martha 
Eose Dickson, the late Mrs. Ira T. Soule, was adopted and made a sharer 
in his property at his death. The estate is still held in trust and the house 
is now occupied by Dr. J. E. Bradshaw, from Sodus, an M. D. from 
Buffalo. His first wife was Jennie Jewell, who died in 1881, leaving a son, 
George D. He married, second, Alice M. Goewey, who has a daughter, 
Fiances. Dr. B. came to Rose first in 1873. (Dr. F. H. Hallet, who 
came to Rose from Huron in 1890, now lives here. He is a graduate of 
Buffalo Universitv. Dr. Bradshaw has gone to South Sodus.) 



EOSE MEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 285 

Coming back to the point where we left Wolcott street for northern 
rambles, we find a small building, now used by Ira Soule for a shoe shop 
and store. Originally it was on the hill, nearly opposite, and in it George 
Howland maintained a shop for years. Mr. Howland's first wife was 
Harriet, a daughter of Deacon William Briggs, of District No. 7. By her 
he had two daughters — Josephine, who married Geo. Earless, and Jean- 
nette, Mrs. Seager, of District No. 3. For his second wife, Mr. H. wedded 
Miss Lucy Town, of District Xo. 5. He died in 1863, at the age of 
forty-eight years. "'Squire" Geo. W. Ellinwood bought the shop and 
moved it to its present location. Here he kept the post office from 1869 
to 1885. As this is the only separate building devoted to post office use 
in Rose, it is a good place to give the history of the office from the begin- 
ning. Dr. Peter Valentine was the fir.st postmaster, appointed in 1827, 
and the office was known as Valentine's. Soon afterward it became 
Albion, then Rose Valley, and, in 1834, Rose. As such it has continued 
to date, though many people persist in adding the superfluous " Valley." 
Charles Thomas was the second postmaster, appointed June 17th, 1829, 
and he kept the office in his tavern. After him, came his sons, Nathan 
W. and Eron X., the latter appointed iu 1832, and he held the same till 
1841. Next came Hiram Salisbury for four years, going in with "Tippe- 
canoe and Tyler too." With the return of Democracy to office, in the 
person of James K. Polk, Eron N. Thomas resumed the post office from 
1845 to 1849. The Whigs were again successful in electing a president, 
and with Zachary Taylor, in 1849, came Benjamin Hendricks as postmaster 
for one year only, when Charles S. Wright took the office to his new store. 
When the Democrats came back to power in the person of Franklin Pierce, 
in 1853, Eron N. Thomas once more assumed the position and held it till 
1861. Lincoln appointed Charles S. Wright again, and he was the post- 
master till 1866, January 1st, when Jackson Valentine assumed the honors 
and emoluments, but he was not enough of a Johnson man, so he retired 
in favor of Daniel B. Harmon, a Democrat, and his holding brings us 
down to the days of G. W. Ellinwood, 1869. During Cleveland's admin- 
istration, from 1885 to 1889, Joel S. Sheffield held the office, and he went 
out in favor of E. F. Houghton, who is now in the place. It will be 
observed that E. N. Thomas and G. W. Ellinwood have held the office the 
most of the time since its establishment. ( With the return of Cleveland 
to office, George A. Collier became postmaster.) 

Pimm's Hotel has been, for nearly a generation, a prominent feature iu 
the Main street of the village. It was seized upon iu the thirties, by Ira 
and Hiram Mirick, as an excellent site for a tavern. To make room for 
it, the old school-house was moved away and the present structure went 
up. It has remained unchanged to date, except that the comely piazza 
has been added and the back wing has been raised. Ira Mirick was the 



286 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 

first landlord, and, after his going to Lyons, Hiram took his place. 
Solomon Mirick, the father, died here in 1839. To Hiram Mirick succeeded 
Fowler and Woodruff. Both went from Rose to Clyde, where Hiram 
Fowler still lives. George Woodruff keeps a tavern in the Joppa portion 
of Lyons. Stephen W. Thayer, so prominent in Rose hotel matters, had 
his period of keeping this hostelry, and with his efficient wife, we may 
aver it was well kept. Abram ("Abe") Dratt, Butler born, was land- 
lord at the close of the War. Mr. Dratt was afterward killed upon the 
railroad in Lyons. His oldest daughter was the first wife of V. M. 
Sweeting, the treasurer of Wayne county. Enos T. Pimm, who has been 
at the helm for so many years, was born iu Huron. His wife, who died 
in 1886, was Martha E. Sedore. Mr. P. was a member of the Ninth 
Heavy Artillery during the Rebellion, and was elected president, in 1889, 
of the Wayne County Veterans' Association. For nineteen years this 
town has voted to not grant licenses, consequently a very enviable condi- 
tion of sobriety has obtained. In addition to maintaining a public house, 
Mr. P. until lately ran a line of stages from North Rose to Clyde, and can 
furnish a team for hire at a moment's notice. ( In 1893 Mr. Pimm sold out 
to Lorenzo Whitney, who came here from Sodus. ■ He has children, 
Harvey, William, Eva and Birdie. Mr. Pimm was married in 1891 to 
Mrs. Elizabeth J. Oakes, of Brockport, who has two daughters. Bertha A., 
wife of S. G. Blythe, associate editor of the Buffalo ExjJress, and Bertha 
A., who is at home. Of course the hotel has been the home of many 
people, and among these might be named Dr. Xelson Xeeley, who years 
since came to Rose with brilliant prospects. He was of an Oneida 
county family, had his medical education in Albany, and had married 
Mary McComb, from Canada. He was assistant surgeon of the 57th N. Y. 
V during the War. He died in Rose. An only son, Clarence, is still in 
town. Mr. J. H. Woodman, now in Clyde, was a well-known figure here 
for a term of years.) 

Foster Moslein is the village butcher, and furnishes his wares in a new 
building erected for the purpose. ( Mr. M.'s place is now held by Reuben 
Leader.) The spot, or that near it, has marked a market or grocery for 
more than twenty years. Dr. J. J. Dickson formerly owned, and in the 
old building adjoining Moslein's, Eugene Hickok once kept a grocery. 
The upper part of it is a tenement house. ( In the lower story the Earless 
Bros, print the Koi^e Farmer's Counsel and Times.) 

The next place, belonging to Mrs. Ira T. Soule's heirs, is a part of the 
old Dickson property, and once constituted a portion of the old house, 
removed by Dr. Dickson when he made over his later residence. It has 
held a long line of tenants, the latest being Reuben Leader, a native of 
Canada, whose wife, Mary Head, a sister of Mrs. Edgar Armstrong, was 
from Madison countv. Their children are : Levern. Libbie, Florence and 



KOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 287 

Etta. ( Libbie Leader was married in February, 1893, to Claude Seager ; 
Levern is in Muncie, lud. ]Mrs. Wni. Vauderoef and son also live here.) 

A house, once ascribed to J. York, was purchased by Daniel Johnson 
and torn to pieces. Mr. J.'s pretty little house is one that "Parm" 
Tindall moved down from its old site, south of the cemetery. It is the 
old home of the 2d Thad. Collins. In it Tindall lived twenty or twenty-five 
years. Wm. H. Dodds once owned it, and finally Johnson purchased, 
and has pride in making a very neat and tidy place. His wife died 
recently, leaving a daughter, Ida. Mr. Johnson, in addition to his duties 
as sexton of the Methodist Episcopal Church, is a skillful ditcher. 

The man familiar with Rose twenty-five years ago, as he visits his old 
haunts, will look in vain for Alexander's old blacksmith shop, but its site 
is next south, and the unoccupied building is the old smithery worked 
over into anything that comes along. Just now it is an ice house, and 
before that "Joe" Wade and Will Klinck had a meat market in it. 
What it will be next, only omniscience can tell. It was probably fifty 
years ago that Daniel C. Alexander Ijuilt his shop and began shoeing 
horses on this spot. The open doors and the sooty workmen are famil- 
iar memories in many minds. He early associated with himself his 
wife's brother, "Parm," or Palmer R. Tindall, and this relation was 
maintained for fifteen or twenty years. Mr. A. was originally from New 
Jersey, but at the old Tindall haunt, near Pilgrimsport, he had found his 
wife, Sally Ann. They had children, once prominent figures in young Rose 
Valley. John B. married a Lounsberry, and went to Michigan. Charles 
H. is in Kingman, Kansas ; Sarah married Leander IMirick, went to 
Michigan, and there died ; Redmond D. also went to the same state. 
Mrs. A. died suddenly some years since, and Mr. A. died later in Michigan. 
The Alexander house was built by John Snyder, who came from the east, 
and afterward ^ent to Michigan. Mr. Alexander bought, added to and 
fixed over as we see it to-day. If the visitor misses the old shop, his eyes 
will be gladdened at the sight of the old well in front of the house. The 
means of getting water may not be those of earlier days ; the bucket may 
have given place to a chain pump, and it to the later suction, but thirsty 
people continue to slake their thirst as of old. It is not the same tin cup 
that "Dan " A.lexander hung up, but a cup is there and a rill is generally 
running from this town pump. At present the house is occupied by 
William A. Mix, who, a native of Washington county, came to Rose in 
1860, influenced somewhat by his friendship for the late Dr. John 
Dickson and father. His first wife was Harriet Haviland ; his second a 
Loveless. His children are; Eunice E., married to J. H. Ackerman, in 
Brooklyn, and Wm. J., now in Lyons. Though a mill owner, much 
of Mr. M.'s time is given to moving buildings. ( In 1893 Mr. Mix boards 
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Dr. Marcus J. Williams has his office and residence next. The house 
formerly belonged to the widow of Alonzo Snow, but it was built several 
years since by William H. Lyon, now of Brooklyn. It was once owned 
and occupied by James W. Colboru and family. Asa Cook was the first 
builder upon the site, and in his house dwelt for a time the five sisters of 
William H. Lyon. Dr. M. J. Williams is a native of Hannibal, Oswego 
county, born December 14th, 1853. His father, William L., came from 
Hollyhead, Wales, to America, at the age of twenty years, and married 
Miss Julia A. Palmer, of Hannibal. Both parents now reside in Clyde. 
Dr. Williams attended the district school of Hannibal, until he went to 
Falley Seminary, Fulton, where he passed three years. Afterward he 
entered the medical department of the Vermont University. He was 
graduated thence in 1878. His first location was Eed Creek, whence he 
came to Eose seven years ago. He was married November 7th, 1877, to 
Miss Clara E. Sittson, of Weedsport, who, from the union school of that 
village, passed to the Auburn high school, where she prepared for college 
and was graduated from the Syracuse University in 1876. They have one 
child, Mabel J., twelve years old. The doctor obviously enjoys living in 
Rose, and has an extensive practice, though the town is called a very 
healthy one. (Dr. Williams moved to Jordan in 1892.) 

The building on the corner of Thomas street was built by Eron N. 
Thomas as a store for Daniel Harmon, who also had the post office in it. 
George H. Merritt had a store there afterward. The latter' s wife died in 
Rose. He went from Rose to Red Creek, and thence to Michigan. John 
and George Collier followed with a general store, remaining until George 
A. went into the building opposite. An L upon the north side has afforded 
a pleasant residence for the different occupants of the store. David Gragor 
now keeps a variety store, and runs a barber shop at the same time. Mr. 
G. has been in Rose for nineteen years, a considerable portion of the time 
having a shop in the old stone building opposite. He was born in Mon- 
tezuma, N. Y., and was a soldier during the War, in the 11th R. I. His 
wife was Jane Nagle. By a former marriage, he had a son, Joseph. Mr. 
G. has Indian blood in his veins, coming from the grand old tribe of the 
Oneidas. 

DISTRICT No. 4.— "The Valley." 

Januar:/ 12— March 23, 1893. 

Part II. 

In accordance with the plan uniformly followed in these letters, of 
working from the outside to the centre, we will pass to the extreme 
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village. There are a few farms here that belong to the White School- house 
district, of Galen ; but they are so few that they will be given in connection 
with the Valley neighborhood, indicating where the sections are separated. 

The home of Jeremiah Gatchell, on the west side of the street, is not 
more than a rod north of the town line. With the place there are thirty- six 
acres of land, which Mr. G. bought of Ebenezer Odell. The latter repaired 
the house, which was built by Harry Matthews. James W. Casler pre- 
ceded Odell. The latter died in 1886. Mr. Gatchell is a native of Huron, 
though the family is of Massachusetts origin, and his wife is Alice 
Kanouse, a daughter of the late first neighbor in Galen. They have one 
child, Grace. The farm is a part of that great plain extending from Clyde 
to near the northern limits of Eose, and it is not so long since that it was 
deemed an irreclaimable swamp. General Adams' ditch, if it did nothing 
more, opened many acres of good lahd to tillage. ( Mr. G. now resides in 
the Kanouse house over the Galen line, and Gardner Harper and wife 
occupy the Rose place.) 

Hiram Gordon owns the farm across the way. He bought in 1875 from 
his brother, William. The latter took from Dr. Ely, of Clyde, and he 
from a Wadleigh. William Gordon built the barns and a part of the 
house. When Hiram G. bought, lie improved and repaired the house. 
The Gordons are natives of Phelps, but their boyhood was passed in Galen. 
Mr. Gordon's first wife, Clara D. Kirkland, died in 1S55, and his second, 
Anna Arnold, in 1889. Two children died in infancy, and Martha J., a 
young lady, in 1861. In addition to the fifty acres in the Rose farm, there are 
twenty-five in the Galen portion joining. Charles Harper, who works the 
farm, and with whom Mr. Gordon boards, married Esther Terry, and has 
two boys, George E. and Selah F. This was true in 1890, but now Mr. 
Chapin, late of Huron, tills the fai-m and Mr. Harper lives to the north. 

Going northward we find Charles H. Stell, on the west side of the road, 
living on the Lester Gordon farm. Lester Gordon is a son of William, 
though in town parlance he was better known as "Bill" Gordon. There 
are twenty- four acres in the place, and former owners were John Matthews, 
William Finch, Harmon Miner and many others. Seth Hale once bought 
this and possibly a part or all of the next farm south, from Stokes, the 
Clyde glass manufacturer, for 1,000 cords of wood. He failed, however, to 
keep his contract. Stokes purchased of a Watson. 

Still further along, in the same direction, is the farm of Henry Tindall, 
who married a daughter of the widow of Leonard Mitchell, residing west of 
the Valley, and here lives Frank Finch, son of Selah, who resides at the 
next turn to the east. This is the old Bowles place, and the militant 
minister resided here when he had his famous encounter referred 
to in the history of the Methodist Church. The house was built by 
Ebenezer Stone many years since. Tindall bought of Nathaniel Campbell. 
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Frank Finch married Mary Eagan, and they have two children, Albert and 
a little girl. The house was built by Seth Hale. 

This whole section has been subjected to changes innumerable. When 
the higher acreage, all around, was taken up by permanent settlers, this 
was deemed almost valueless land, and it was only when General Adams' 
ditch drained it measurably that it was considered arable. Hence there is 
no farm along this road for some distance that is identified with any old 
family name. 

The fifty-acre farm of Jerome W. Tindall has seen many owners. Col. 
Samuel Briggs sold to Henry L. Cole, who passed the right of possession 
to Charles Howes. The latter went west, though he moved here, for a 
dwelling, the house that once stood on the Bert Shepard place in Galen, 
further south. After him came Stephen Weeks, then Abram B. Covell, 
who now lives in Sodus. The latter married Helen Griswold, a daughter 
of the late Lorenzo. They have one son, Ernest W. Mr. Tindall came 
here in April, 1890, from the northwest part of the town, a son of that 
Charles H. Tindall long identified with the remotest angle of Rose. He 
married Ida Clark, of Arcadia, and they have one son, Clark. Mr. T., like 
many farmers along this road, makes a specialty of growing and evaporat- 
ing the black raspberry. 

The Valley district begins with the home of William Steitler, a little 
north of opposite, /. e., William S. lived there in 1890, but now Charles 
Harper and family abide. It requires a yearly enumeration to keep track 
of the dwellers in these parts. The farm belonged to Willis Horton, 
deceased, and he bought of Samuel Kelsey. Years ago this was the 
property of Malcom Little, who sold to Morris Conklin, his brother-in-law. 
The latter was a stone mason by trade, and during the Eebellion was a 
member of Co. A, Ninth N. Y. Heavy Artillery, a comrade of the writer. 
He was subsequently accidently killed in the west. There are eighty-four 
acres in the farm. 

Should we turu to the right and take the east road, we should find no 
dwellers in this district, but should soon enter the confines of the Town 
neighborhood. Here are still standing parts of the primeval forest, un- 
polluted by the homes of men, save as vagrant Indians have, from time to 
time, lived among the trees in basket making expeditions. 

On the north side of the corner dwell Selah Finch and wife. He is a 
brother of the Finches of the Wayne Centre district, and his wife, Melissa 
Wright, is a daughter of the English Charles Wright who once lived in the 
extreme eastern part of the town. Their home is an exceedingly neat and 
pleasant one. They have only one son, Frank, whom we have already 
met. There are forty-two acres in the farm, and it goes back to Dr. 
Dickson at least. One Page, of Clyde, once owned and Alonzo Streeter 
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Henry Cole, to whom succeeded Isaac Cole, and then came the present 
owner. The late Brownell Wilbur once owned several acres, east of 
Finch's farm, the eastern portion of the latter' s place, and the writer 
has distinct recollection of several days' work done thereon, along with 
Marvin Wilbur, of Victor, all in a summer's " haying." It was there that 
I first saw a windrow roped to the loading place. 

Occupying a commanding site from whatever direction it is regarded, 
the home of Lorenzo N. Snow is conspicuous on this Rose and Clyde turn- 
pike. Mr. S., a native of Madison county, came here in 1854, succeeding 
William B. Sears. What was the north part of his farm, he bought from 
Dr. Henry Van Ostrand. The fine brick house and the roomy barns were 
all constructed by Mr. S. In the place there are more than 250 acres, ex- 
tending from this north and south road to the next one west. Much of the 
land is as level as a floor, occupying, as it does, a large part of the swamp 
land that the famous Sodus canal of General Adams redeemed from almost 
hopeless moisture. Mr. Snow is much interested in blooded stock, both 
horses and cattle. He married Harriet L. Sexton, of Chenango county. 
Years ago, two brothers, Collins and Isaac Batt, owned the eastern part of 
the Snow farm with a log house, near where Charles Harper lives, and 
another near the Snow house. There were other owners before Sears. 
The latter had one son, Edson, and two daughters by his first wife, 
Emmaette. These daughters, Sarah and Emily, were successively the wives 
of a Mr. Eeynolds, Emily dying first, leaving two children ; Sarah has one 
child. The second wife, Martha E., survives, and has one child, who is Mrs. 
Frank Howard of Galen. He afterward lived near the white school- 
house, and was a member of the Baptist Church. The old Sears house 
was long a tenant house for Mr. Snow. A recent dweller was "Deck" 
Brewster, who married Albertine, daughter of Nelson Ferguson. (Ben- 
jamin Decatur Brewster, through his mother, is a member of the Butler- 
Kellogg family; his children are Lena, Nelson and Benjamin. The 
family is now in Syracuse. ) 

Opposite, and quite as pretty a figure as there is on this excellent road, 
is the home of John Collier. If you wish to make the acquaintance of Mr. 
C, you will have to call on him, for he is not one of those who favor 
taverns and groceries with their presence. He was born more than eighty 
years ago in Ireland, in County Carlow, near Dublin, and his people were 
of the Church of England, longer than memory recalls ; he came to Rose in 
1845. His wife — wedded in the old country — in girlhood was Hannah 
Cardiff. She has borne a numerous family, as follows : Alice, at home ; 
John, who died in New York, where the family located on coming to 
America; Mark T., known as "Tom," of the Valley, who married Sarah 
F. Zeluff , of Clyde ; William, who died before he was twenty-one, having 
been for some time the favorite clerk of J. C. Atkins, the toy dealer of 



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Clyde; Anna, the wife of Jerry Barrett, of Rose; Eliza (better known as 
Leila), at home ; John, for some time in business in Clyde, now at home, 
and George, who married Mamie E. Valentine, and keeps one of the stores 
in the Valley. Mrs. Collier died April 17th, 1892. Mr. Collier bought 
his farm of Thomas M. Warn ; but the house then standing has been re- 
paired and improved beyond recognition. There are seventy acres in the 
farm. John Skidmore, who married Sally Bishop, also dwelt here for a 
time. It is probable that the farm was taken from the office by Martin 
Warner. If one delights in pleasant prospects, there is every reason why 
Mr. Collier should stay at home and enjoy the outlook that the south side 
of his home affords. He is a pleasant man to meet, with just enough of a 
brogue to let you know that the curl of his tongue was acquired in Green 
Erin. 

The house which covers George Klinck and wife was old long before 
they were born. George, a son of the late Henry C. Klinck, and a grand- 
son of the late Artemas Osgood, has been married twice — first, to Lucinda 
Harper, and second, to Viola Warren, of Walworth. William Matthews, 
of this village, preceded Klinck, and I have little doubt but the latter 
wishes that Matthews had retained possession till after the destructive 
tornado of 1888, which broke the windows of the house and destroyed 
valuable trees. 

Deacon Walter Lyon came before Matthews, and he was the most noted 
of all the possessors here. He was born in Woodstock, Conn., and came 
to Rose from Holland, Mass. This township is one of the most sterile in 
the southern part of the Commonwealth, and the frugality necessary to 
make a living there followed him to this fertile locality. It was early in 

the forties that he came among us. His first wife was Lucretia , 

who died in 1846. Their children were Amos, who taught singing schools 
in Rose, and finally went east, and died ; Lathrop, who went to Gratiot 
county, Mich.; Winthrop, a wagon njaker in Clyde, dying there; and Emer- 
son, who married a Whittlesey, of Galen, and went to Michigan; a 
daughter, Elmina, died in 1850, at the age of twenty-one years. He sub- 
sequently married Roxana, the widow of Deacon William Briggs. She 
survived till 1880, dying then at the age of eighty-five years. Deacon 
Lyon was long one of the most noteworthy figures in Rose. There are 
many who can still recall his tall and, as years came upon him, somewhat 
bowed form. He was as regular as clock-work in going to church, and 
every line in his face betokened devotion to what he considered right. 
His title was obtained before coming to Rose. He was extremely careful 
in his speech, determined to say only good of every man. But even 
deacons have troubles, and a line fence was a source of much bickering 
with a neighbor, and things didn't go to suit him at all. Even then he 
came no nearer a reproach than the following : Speaking of his neighbor's 



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son, he was wont to say: "A fine boy, a very fine boy; very smart. He 
has an excellent mother, a beautiful woman; but his father — well, we 
won't say anything about him." If everybody were equally discreet, there 
would be less suits for slander. He lived to be veiy aged, and even then 
passed off the stage by his own hand. He was about eighty-four at his 
death, and it was the general opinion that he was not in his right mind at 
the time. The last home of himself, his first wife and daughter is in the 
neglected burying ground by the white school-house. He was a life-long 
member of the Baptist Church. John Wade built the house and lived 
here some years. 

Between the Presbyterian elder and the Baptist deacon, came the oc- 
cupancy of Samuel Jones ; he was a native of Albany county, and his wife, 
Lydia Gardner, was from Hudson. He later kept the south hotel in the 
village, and finally moved to Williamson. Of his children, Peter went to 
Sparta, Wis.; Eachel died in Chicago; Elizabeth in Williamson; John is 
in Adrian, Mich.; Lydia A. is Mrs. Hamel Closs; Mary Jane became the 
wife of the late David Elliuwood; George is in California, and Abbie, 
Mrs. Dr. Kimball, resides in Adrian, Mich. 

Nearly opposite is a house that has latterly taken on a new lease of life. 
It belonged to Lyman Legg, and in it his sou, DeLaucey, resides. His 
■wife is Fanny, a daughter of Nelson Ferguson, once residing in No. 7, and 
who will be remembered as marrying a daughter of Abram Phillips. 
(They have one child, Stella.) This place has belonged to many owners, as 
Lorenzo Snow, Dr. Henry Van Ostrand and Jesse O. Wade. The latter 
is a son of John Wade, one of the earliest settlers. His wife was Milly, a 
sister of Dr. Yau Ostrand. 

Then comes the home of William McMurdy, born in Ulster county. His 
wife is Mary Wolever, and they came to Rose in 1SS2. They have only 
one child, Agnes, recently married to John W. Crisler, of Rose. The 
farm of eighty-eight acres is entirely of the perfectly flat character so 
peculiar to this section. Brownell Wilbur and family preceded the present 
owner, coming here from the Fuller place, and going hence to Victor. 
The house was built by Mr. Van Ostrand. Before him was Mr. Hoag, a 
wagon maker, who afterward lived in District No. 8. 

The house just to the north, now nearly destroyed, was long the home 
of John Bassett and wife, they coming here from the Valley. The black- 
smith shop was a little south of the house. It yielded to time some years 
ago. There are twenty-five acres in the place. Truman Van Tassell, a 
Methodist minister, traded this place with "Uncle" John Bassett for the 
latter's village lot. These good people were long members of the Methodist 
Church, but the story goes that "Uncle" John once lost the run of the days 
of the week and went to work on Sunday in his shop. He was horrified 
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294 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 

Methodist, too. In the days of the stone church, the beast one Sunday 
morn grew tired of waiting for the old people and went on up to the Valley- 
alone, stopped at the horse block, and then walked demurely back to his 
place under the shed. The blacksmith followed in time, proud of the 
possession of so orthodox a beast. The Bassetts had an adopted son, who 
strayed away and was last heard from in Australia, writing thence to Eron 
K. Thomas. Mrs. B. was a sister of the late Mrs. Solomon Allen. 

The home of William H. Griswold is one of the oldest houses on the 
street. In the early matrimonial days of Eron N. Thomas, it was nearly 
as it is now, only a few additions having been made. The first Mrs. Thomas 
cooked in the then cellar kitchen. This is still the largest farm in one body in 
the town. There are 313 acres in it, running back into the eastern 
swamps, a long ways from the road. In addition to the barns near the 
house, there is a very large one some rods back, to the east. Extensive 
young orchards give promise of fruitful wealth in years to come. Eron 
Thomas took from his father, Charles, who probably bought this farm of 
John Covey, April 18th, 1826. There were then 100 acres. Mr. Ehinehart 
now tills the farm. William Griswold is a son of Lorenzo, met in the ex- 
treme northern part of the Jeffers district. Lorenzo was a nephew of the 
first William G., of the district bearing his name. It will be remembered 
that this William lived for many years on the Griswold corner. He 
married Julia, a daughter of James Weeks, of the Jeffers district. Their 
children are Charles E., who has taught school for some time in Idaho -^ 
Mary Almeda, now the wife of Dr. Frank S. Barton, of Clyde ; and Frank 
W., at home. The family now reside in Clyde. 

Crossing the road, the home of Stephen Weeks is found. He is a son 
of James Weeks, of District No. 11, and his wife was Margaret Grenell, of 
Galen. They have only two children — Edith L., at home, and George R.,. 
who four years since sought happiness and wealth in California. (Mrs. 
W.'s mother, Adelia, widow of Henry Grenell, died here January 5, 1892, 
aged 82 years.) The farm of forty-four acres was bought of Jerome 
Thomas, who purchased from the Alonzo Snow estate. Here, too, lived 
once Johnny Ogram, the most famous shoemaker ever in Eose. One old- 
time owner was Rufus Dann, a college graduate and a most polite gentle- 
man. Ogram went from here to Fulton. Mr. Dann was one of those 
singular freaks of nature called an Albino.' 

Ex-Deputy Sheriff John H. Barnes is the motive power in the next 
stopping place. Since his taking possession, he has instituted many 
improvements. The location of the outbuildings has been changed, and 
he has done a deal of " slicking up." He found a wife in Elizabeth Stack,, 
whose family was met in District No. 8, and they have one daughter, 
Jessie May. Longer than many Eose people remember, this place was 
called the Austin farm. Ezra Austin was a native of Herkimer county. 



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as was also his second wife, Huldah A. Allen. They were married in 
1838, and came to Rose in 1841, buying of Thomas Knight. Mr. Austin 
died in 1862, his wife in 1885. There were Austin children as follows : 
by a former marriage, Hubbard, who died unmarried, and Charlotte, the 
first wife of "William Allen, who went west ; by his second marriage, 
Edmund, married Lovina Ingersoll, and was killed at the Wilderness, a 
member of Company C, 111th N. Y. Volunteers ; James died in childhood; 
Charles Henry, a soldier in the Third Artillery, died at Newburn, N. C; 
Mary Josephine, married William Hamm, and lives in the village; Ida B. 
died in childhood, and Irving, who married Jane Willis, and is a Rose 
citizen, on Lyons street. It was in the early days of her widowhood that 
Mrs. Austin allowed some of those rapacious, predacious lightning rod 
men to mount her buildings, to put on fifteen or twenty dollars' worth of 
rods. When the men came down, the ridges on the barns resembled 
nothing so much as elegant picket fences. The bill was .«.300, and Mrs. 
A. and her boys had to pay it. Thus the barns became as conspicuoiis as 
any on the Clyde road. To be sure, the farmer is not beset by that form 
of legalized robbery now, but he has to keep his eye peeled lest a greater 
evil come unto him. The sharper has long considered the farmer his own 
particular victim. Mrs. Au.stin sold to Charles Vanderpool, and he to 
Frank Parkes. This farm, with the one south, is connected with one of 
the earliest names in the town, viz., that of Milburn Salisbury. It is on 
record that a child of his was the first one born in the town, in 1812. To 
him succeeded Abel Lyon, father of the Moses Lyon noted in the annals of 
the Methodist Church in central New York. Then there was a Caguin, 
and alter him Ezra Dann, brother of the one who lived at the same time 
on the present Weeks farm. This Dann had a family, and finally sold to 
Ezra Austin, as stated. The Danns lived together in a house which now 
serves Stephen Weeks as a horse barn. 

Somewhere in these parts was the scene of the following thrilling story, 
told by an old gentleman, who now lives in Michigan, but was once a 
Rose boy. The story is due to the kindness of Chester T. Sherman, who 
is much interested in all Rose matters : 

A MURDER STORY. 

At the time of the murder in Rose, we lived on the south side of the 
creek, and west side of the road to Clyde. Our grandparents lived on the 
north side of the creek, and east side of the road. It was about mid- 
summer — July or August, perhaps — I think, about 1827 or 1828. One 
evening grandmother came over to our house and said : 

"Clara," for so she called mother, "did you hear somebody cry 
' murder,' a little while ago, down toward Salisbury's 1 



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Mother said : "Why, no." 

"Well," said grandmother, "when I was milking, I heard someone 
cry, 'Murder, murder, murder!' just as plainly as I hear you talking 
here now." 

"Oh," said mother, "it was children playing, I guess." 

"No," said grandmother, "it was not; and I think there is trouble 
somewhere." 

As no one in the neighborhood seemed to notice it, the matter dropped 
and nothing more was said about it. About a week after that, mother 
went to Clyde to do some shopping, and took me along with her. We 
rode with a neighbor, in a two-horse wagon, since carriages were not much 
in use in those days. About a mile from where we lived, on the road to 
Clyde, stood a log house on the west side of the road, and just on the 
north edge of athick, heavy timbered, low piece of land, called "the gore." 
I think the land still belonged to the state or government. As we were 
coming home from Clyde, about sundown, we came to this log house and 
were stopped by the man who lived there. His name was Phelps. He 
was in a terrible state of excitement, and said : "What do you think my 
dog brought up this evening ? " No one could guess. " Well," said he, 
"he brought up a man's foot and leg as far as the knee, and here it is." 
Sure enough, in an hour or two, the whole of quiet little Rose Valley was 
all excitement, and every man turned out and all night long was looking 
for the body of the man. Some time in the next day, the body was found 
away back in the woods, lying on its back, with the throat cut from ear to 
ear and a razor lying on the ground near his right hand as though he had 
committed suicide ; but a club was found, near by, with hair on it, show- 
ing that it had been used first. The body was, of course, in a terrible 
state, for it had been lying there some days in the hot weather. A 
coroner's jury was called, of which my father was one. On examination 
of the clothes, father recognized them as those of a man whom he had 
seen at Thomas' tavern a few days before. He and several others 
happened to be at the tavern, when a stranger came in and asked for a 
pint of whisky, which Mr. Thomas put up for him in a flask. The man 
asked if there was land for sale around there, representing that he had 
means to purchase. Some one told him that there was a piece of land for 
sale about a mile below, and directed him to go to Mr. Phelps, just on the 
edge of the land, thinking that Mr. Phelps would go with him and look at 
the land. The man went out, and nothing more was thought of it until 
father's discovery. 

The jury came to the ^'conclusion that the man came to his death by 
some unknown person. On his body were found some papers that 
indicated that his name was Jones, and that he was from some town in 
the eastern part of the state. I do not remember the name of the place. 



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■■They took the body as best they could, and putting it in a rough box, at 
about midnight buried it in the cemetery, a little north of the village, the 
same ground in which our grandparents lie, I think. Father wrote to the 
authorities of the town where it was supposed that the man had lived, 
asking if such a man had ever lived there, narrating the circumstances of 
his death as best he could. The answer was that such a man had lived 
there, and that he was one who liked to have people think him wealthy. 
Very likely this trait was the cause of his death. I do not remember that 
his body was ever claimed. Of course, there was a great deal of talk 
about the matter -and some claimed that Phelps was the murderer, or 
knowing to It. But he had been a prominent member of the Baptist 
Church, to which mother and grandmother belonged, and he had always 
been thought very highly of. Mother expressed herself very indignantly 
against any one intimating such a thing. 

I shall remember to the day of my death the night of Jones' burial, as 
there was a terrific thunder-storm while they were burying him. Xor 
shall I forget how afraid I was to go along the road after that, as I had 
been told that "old Jones " might come out after me. Not long after this, 
it was discovered that the Phelps family had gone, bag and baggage. No 
one knew when nor where. Some months passed, when, just as suddenly, 
the family was at home again, claiming that they had been away working 
on some canal; for they were accustomed to taking contracts for that kind 
of labor. Soon after their return, mother went down there to make a 
visit. Just as she was leaviug for home, Mrs. Phelps burst out crying. 
Ou being asked what was the matter, she said to mother : " You know 
what the stories are? " Mother was so dumbfounded that she could say 
nothing, not even to ask what stories, but immediately left for home. 
Not long after this, Mr. Phelps was taken very ill, and was not expected 
to live. Mother, with some others, went to watch with him one night, 
and when she came home in the morning, she declared that she now 
believed that "old Phelps'' was the murderer. "For," said she, "while he 
seemed about dying, he would spring up in bed and utter the most unearthly 
screams, and his looks were such as I never want to see again." 
However, he got well, but no one seemed to wish to take the matter up, 
and as soon as he was able to be about, he, his wife and two grown-up 
sons disappeared again, just as suddenly as before, and I think that no 
one in Rose ever knew where they went. 

Years rolled on. We came to Michigan. Some time about 1841, I was 
teaching a district school in a town eight miles from home, and, as 
teachers then did, I boarded around. One evening, I was staying at the 
house of a Mr. Moore. This gentleman was acquainted with my father 
and mother, when young people, in New York. In the course of the 
evening, the name of Phelps was mentioned as being that of one of the 



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neighbors. I said: "Phelps! Phelps! where did he come from?" 
Mr. Moore said: "Why, he came from about where you did, in Wayne 
county." I was thunderstruck. I said: "Is it possible that that old 
murderer is alive and so near mel " They asked me what I meant, and I 
told them the story. It created quite an excitement, and in a few days 
the Phelps family was missed from that neighborhood, no one knowing 
where they had gone. One year after that, I was sent as a constable to 
arrest a man in Shiawasee county. Father went with me, and we were 
obliged to go to the man's house before daylight in order to catch him. 
He lived in a lone house in the woods. We arrived at the house just at 
daybreak, but, to our surprise, the man was just coming home. He saw 
us and ran into the woods. We went back to the tavern and father and 
the landlord made up a plan whereby father, who was not an officer, and 
the man could meet. They met, and the man agreed to go with us, father 
promising to help him as much as he could consistently. On our return, 
he told us that he had been watching that night with an old man by the 
name of Phelps, who, he said, was very ill, but it seemed as though he 
could not die. He said it was terrible to see the man. We learned a 
few days after that he was at last dead. So ends the story, as nearly as I 
can recollect it. The saying that " murder will out," failed in this case. 

Chas. Sherman Woodard. 

A little more than half the distance between Barnes' and the farm house 
of "Prank H. Closs, long stood the toll house, or gate, an accompaniment 
of the plank road once existing between Rose and Clyde. On the expira- 
tion of the road's charter, the house was sold, and is now a dwelling house, 
on Lyons street, in the village. The plank road charter existed thirty 
years, and expired in 1878. 

The spacious and inviting buildings of the Closs place follow. The 
owner and family once residing here, will be met in the Valley. The ear- 
lier citizens of Rose knew this as George Mirick's place. He was the 
builder of the house and barns. He came into possession after the death 
of his father-in-law, Charles Thomas. The farm in part goes back to John 
Covey, who sold in 1826 to Charles Thomas. Of the Coveys I know only 
that John's wife bore the name of Betsey, and that his father, Amos, lived 
In Fenner, Madison Co. The contract with Nicholas was made by Amos 
Covey, in 1815, the southeastern part of the Nicholas purchase. George 
Mirick married Elsie, a daughter of Charles Thomas. They were long 
prominent in all Rose matters. Their children, also, were all exceedingly 
bright, active young people. The family, young and old, went to Adrian, 
Michigan, where Mr. Mirick died, July 31st, 1887. His widow lives in 
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Cassius R. Kellogg, and died in February, 1876 ; Charles married Hannah 
Foist, of Ferguson's corners, and is in Adrian; Eugenia married Calvin 
H. Crane, and died November 30, 1871; Mr. C.'s second wife is Emma 
(Livermore) Kellogg; Leander ("Stubb") married Sarah Alexander, now 
dead, their only son being William; the three younger sons are George R., 
Frank and Edward. Few families, in removing, ever took more life and 
activity from Rose. 

The old house in the field north of this place was built by a Walmsley, 
and is included in the Covey or Captain John Sherman purchase. 

Benjamin Genung and his family found a pleasant home in the house a 
trifle north of opposite, from 1847 to the date of his death, viz., March 
23d, 1888. Deacon Genung was born in Fishkill, Dutchess county, and 
there married Jane Ann Darland. He came to Galen in 1839, and thence 
to Rose. The place of sixty-four acres was bought of Enoch Knight. 
Two children were buried in Dutchess county, and the others were: 
Caroline, who married, first, Walter Wilson, of the Valley, and second, 
Smith D. German, is a widow, and lives in Clyde; Hannah, Mrs. 
Marriott, who lives next door north ; William D., of the 111th New York, 
was wounded at the Wilderness, and died in Fredericksburg; Joseph 
married Julia Wood, of Clyde, and is in the iron business in Chattanooga, 
Tenn.; Susan, the first wife of Nelson Graham, of North Rose; Mary D., 
who married Marcus Baker, and Charlotte, who became Mrs. Jessie Heit 
of Galen, since deceased. Mrs. Genung retains her residence here, though 
she passes much of her time among her children. Her husband, as man 
and Christian, left an excellent record. There was once a Devereaux on 
the farm. 

John Marriott (called Merritt), whose house follows, is a native of Eng- 
land. His first wife was Hannah Crandall, of District No. 8. They had 
children : B. Nelson, who is principal of the South side school, in Clyde; 
J. Darwin, of Rochester, employed as fireman on the Western New York 
& Pennsylvania R. R.; S. Lizzie, a teacher, and Jennie, who is attending 
the Clyde high school. Mr. Marriott bought fourteen acres of Benjamin 
Genung and built the house. His second wife was Hannah Genung. 
(Lizzie Marriott was recently married to William A. Bryar, of Fairville.) 

Valorous Ellinwood, whose place follows, was born in District No. 6, 
the last house on the west. Some data omitted then might be given now. 
Valorous Ellinwood, first, a brother of George W. and Orlando, was twice 
married. First, to Sarah M. Turner. By this marriage he had Alexander, 
who married Susan Ellsworth, of Sodus, and lives in Grand Rapids, Mich. 
His second wife was Amy Smith, from Ontario county, a sister of the wife 
of Jester L. Holbrook. Her children were: Valorous, 2d, and George R. 
The latter married Jennie Greaves, of Clyde, and lives in Adrian, Mich.; 
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cousin, Mrs. Adele (Holbrook) Osborn. Valorous Ellinwood, 1st, died 
in 1853 ; his widow was married again ; this time to Samuel Garlic, and 
died in 1856. The present Valorous has been town clerk eight years. 
His wife is Elnora, the youngest daughter of Delos Seelye. Their children 
are: H. Guy; Raymond S.; Amy B. ("Kittie"), deceased ; Mary A. V., 
Benjamin, and Euth E. 

This farm is the one so long identified with the Hickok name. William, 
the father, we met in the North Eose district. To him and his wife, Sophia 
Gunn, were born: Ann Maria, who was the wife of Dr. Eichard Valentine ; 
Sophronia died unmarried ; William Felton we have already met, and Eu- 
gene, to be encountered west of the Valley. After long and valuable lives, 
the parents now sleep in the Valley cemetery. Part of the farm was bought 
from the Genung place and part from that of Willis G. Wade. The name 
of Hendrick is also connected with the farm, and Isaac Tucker built part 
of the house. 

Crossing the street, we find the home of Orlando Ellinwood, a brother 
of George W., a native of Oneida county. He learned the locksmith's 
trade early in life, but in Eose he has been a farmer. He has been twice 
married ; first in Oneida county, to Phtebe Ann Cook, who died in Little 
Falls, and second, to Emeline Munsell, of Eose. They have one son, Edson 
M., of Clyde, who married Susan Wells, of Springville, N. Y., and has five 
children, viz.: Hattie Bianca, Lena, H. Eoss, Anna Louise and Aurora 
Blanche ; he has been for several years superintendent of the Clyde water 
works. Orlando and wife have lost two children. This place dates back 
to Bphraim Wight, of Troy, who, it is said, being alarmed at the undue 
moisture upon his acres, made haste to sell out. It is also, I think, to 
some extent mixed up with the Shermans, whose possessions joined. 
Mrs. Ellinwood suggests that there was a Harvey, whose wife was an in- 
heritor from the Wights, and that he, too, had rights here. At any rate, 
the old house which Mr. Ellinwood found here, still stands back of the 
new one, built by Mr. E. It was forty-three years since that he came upon 
this place of fiftj'-one acres. A lane leading down to the back portion of 
his farm has long been thought by many a proper beginning of a road to 
lead over the hill into the Town district. When the family came to Eose, 
Mr. E. was for two years on the Hoffman or Brainard farm. Then he was 
for three years at his trade in Utica. Since then he has been permanently 
placed in Rose. Returning to the subject of the lane, it should be stated 
that, years ago, James Cleveland lived at the end of it, at the foot of the 
ridge. Mr. C. was from Fairhaven, Rutland Co., Vermont. His wife was 
Sybil (Gibbs) Maynard, whose son by her first husband was also a dweller 
in another log house here. Only a well marks the old location. The 
Cleveland children were James, long residing in Butler, whose daughter, 
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Polly. Nelson married Sally Merrill, and long lived north of Whisky Hill ; 
a son, Jason is now in the Town district. The elder Cleveland died with 
Nelson. The latter now re.sides in Wolcott. James was twice married, 
fii-st to Nancy Wescott, sister of Mrs. John Kellogg, and second, to 
Miranda Kelly, near Baldwinsville; he is now dead. Charity Cleveland 
married David Crossman, of Lynn, Mass.; Tabitha, Charles Churchill, and 
Polly, Lewis Wadsworth. 

A deal of history attaches to the next house, where the village begins, 
found on the west side of the way. Recently it was the home of the widow 
of Dr. Lewis Koon. A native of Columbia county, he received his medical 
degree from Albany, and came to Rose in 1865. His wife's maiden name 
was Lucy A. Carrigau. She was born in Saratoga county. Before coming 
to this farm, the family lived in various places, among others the old C. B. 
Collins house. They came to this place in 1878, and here, in 1884, Dr. 
K. died. The children are: Helen A., who married Dewey C. Putnam, 
of Wayne Centre; Lewis D. married and lives at Rochester; Cora B. 
married Charles H. Metts, of Sodus, and Clara W., at home. Before Dr. 
Koon was Louis Yiele, who was from the Hudson river region. He had 
a numerous family, as follows: Margaret, Betsey, Rachel, Jacob, John, 
Cornelius, Peter and Stephen. Louis Viele died in Huron. The widow 
of Dr. Koon has recently moved away. The doctor was well esteemed as 
one of the long line of physicians who have aimed to keep in order the 
bodies of Rose dwellers. (Now the home and property of James Coffee 
who, a native of county Waterford, Ireland, married Anne Cullen and has 
children, Delia, Nellie, John, William, Mary, Anne and Josie ; he was 
formerly the blacksmith just to the north. He moved here in May, 1891.) 
Henry Van Tassel preceded Viele. Mr. V. ran the store in Eron 
Thomas' building. He came to Rose from Butler, having married a 
Hibbard, from that town. Hence, he went to Clyde and died there. A 
daughter, Loretta, became Mrs. William Burnett; and Adelbert L., who 
married Hettie Ryerson, was a schoolmate of mine, in Fulton. Warren 
Osborn lived here first. He afterward died in Rochester, from cholera, in 
18.57 or 1S5S. Willis G. Wade left his impress on the place in renewing 
and grouping the barns. Mr. Wade was member of Assembly from this 
district in 1854. As a pension agent, Mr. Wade was very successful, but 
death carried him off in 1854, at the early age of thirty-four years. His 
wife was Juliette, a daughter of John Closs. Their only sou died in infancy. 
Mr. Wade was a son of John Wade, one of the town's first settlers. 

The next house is on the east side. It is now the property of Edson M. 
EUinwood, but for a long time, his grandmother, Jerusha Munsell, owned 
and occupied it. She was the wife of Dorman, one of the first settlers in 
the northeastern part of the town. Before the Munsell occupancy this was 
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la the next bouse formerly dwelt Lafayette Legg and family. He married 
Huldah Drown. They have only one son, Irving. Mr. L. is a stone mason 
by trade, but latterly has managed a portable saw mill. They now live in 
Huron. Before Mr. Legg was Mrs. EJ^zabeth (Parker) Livermore, who 
afterward married E. G. Smith, of District No. 9. Philip Tindall resided 
here once, and here his wife died. The house goes back to Eron N. Thomas 
as original owner. 

Another Mr. Legg was formerly found in the next house, Lyman, the 
father of Lafayette. I can trace the house back to Judd Lackey, who as 
an employee of Thomas, in his mill, may have bought the lot and put up 
the house. William Harmon bought from him, and in his name the house 
now stands. Of Mr. Harmon and family, extended mention was made as 
we went down Dix street. Mr. Legg was born in Tioga county, and there 
married Sarah B. Bliun, a distant relative of the family in the Jeffers 
neighborhood. They came to Rose in the fifties and lived in the village a 
long time. Their oldest son, Austin, died in the army, a member of Co. 
C, 111th IST. Y. Volunteers ; Mary married William Harmon ; Lafayette 
we have just met ; Edward, living in District No. 8 ; Harvey died in 
infancy ; De Lancey married Fanny Ferguson, as was noticed above. 
Lyman Legg died July 30th, 1892, aged seventy-seven years. (Mrs. L. 
died August 14, 1893, aged seventy-three years.) 

The next house is the home of Henry P. Howard, who was in war times 
a well-known member of the Ninth Heavy Artillery. For a considerable 
part of his service, he was regimental postmaster. He came from Man- 
chester, Conn., to Rose, in 1849. For a time he was on the street west of 
Ephraim Wilson's. His wife was Elizabeth Green, of Windsor, Conn. 
The house was built by him in 1870. We shall get a better notion of the 
place and its surroundings by going back to the beginning. The blacksmith 
and wagon shop so long a feature of this lot, antedate the memory of the 
most of the people who travel this road. It was in 1854 or 1855 that the 
old store of Eron Thomas, once on the corner of Main and Lyons streets, 
was moved down here and placed almost over the creek. The gable end of 
the store remains as it was, and the hook for the raising of goods, placed 
there fifty years ago, is still hanging. " Parm " Tindall was the projector 
of the scheme, and the shop was in his care, along with " Bill " Colborn, 
whom he later took into partnership. They sold out to Samuel Otto, who 
sold to Howard. Tindall and Mr. Colborn ran the shop until 1871, when 
it was rented to James Coffee, who managed it for two years, and then 
built the shop opposite. Then came Charles Vanderpool for two or three 
years, and finally Irving Austin. Since his day, Mr. Howard has main- 
tained a wagon repair shop. During all these years, as a workman in the 
shop, a notable figure was that of James Donahue, or, as he was called 
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Morey, of Orleans county. Their children were : Andrew, now in Clyde, 
who married Frank Vanderpool for his first wife. Andrew, better known 
as "Drew," was one of the most famous members of Company H, Ninth 
Heavy Artillery. Till we went to the front he was one of the teamsters, 
and what he doesn't know about mules is not worth knowing. Olivia 
Dunham married Henry Knapp, and lives west of the Valley ; Jerome is 
in Canada ; Ida is Mrs. James Porter, of Wolcott, and Frank married 
Mary Wetherby, once in the toll gate by the Valley. The Dunham home 
was in an old house formerly standing just south of the shop. Mr. D., 
from Rose, went to Hunt's shop in the northeast part of Galen, and finally 
removed to Clyde, where he died, in December, 1886. His employer, Mr. 
Tindall, was long a member of his family, his wife, who was widow Nancy 
Whitmore, having died many years before. She had two grandchildren — 
Philip and Nancy — who were reared as Tindalls. The former became a 
second lieutenant in Company H, of the Ninth Heavy Artillery. Mrs. T. 
was a relative of Aaron Griswold, of Clyde. This same old house in which 
the Dunhams lived was moved by Mr. Howard back of the shop, into the 
lane leading to the old saw-mill. This was for some years the home of 
William H. Allen, whose first wife was Charlotte Austin, and second, 
Mary Barnes. He was a tanner and worked for the Thomases. He 
removed to Coldwater, Michigan. Following the Howard possessions 
around into the lane, we find the small building just described. It is 
occupied by Daniel Harper, who married John Crisler's daughter, Cora. 
They have one child, Euth. Back of this house is the site of the first 
steam sawmill erected in Rose. Willis G. Wade was the builder, in 1848. 
In this mill were sawed the planks for the road from the Valley to Clyde. 
It was sold to E. N. Thomas, and was burned in 1873. Rebuilt, it was run 
for a time, but, with the disappearance of timber, its usefulness was ended 
and it went into desuetude. 

Returning to the Main street and opposite Mr. Howard's, we find the 
steam saw-mill of William A. Mix. Just south of it, in former years, was 
the home of Winthrop Allen. His wife was Mercy Hall, a sister of Samuel 
Hoffman's first wife. His children were : Ovid and Oscar, both in the 
west; William H., just mentioned as a dweller opposite, and Amanda, 
who went west also. The parents are buried in the Rose cemetery. Dr. 
Van Ostrand owned the place afterward, and he had an office near, in 
which, in later times, the Rose Brass Band met for practice. Elijah Osborn 
lived here eleven years. It finally passed to Mr. Mix, and was consumed 
in the conflagration which destroyed the first mill. There a saw and grist- 
mill was erected in 1866, the first steam grist-mill in town. After the 
burning, Mr. Mix rebuilt, but now runs only a saw-mill. 

Across the creek is the shop where James Coffee, who came here from Clyde, 
worked for many a year. The upper story was used for his residence. The 



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site is that of a house owned by widow Austin,, and this was burned in the fire 
which destroyed the mill. The shop is now maintained by Mr. Conklin. 

A building belonging to Charles S. Wright follows. In former years It 
was associated with the name of Smithfield Beaden, a carpenter and general 
utility man, who was also a ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church, till 
certain home diiSculties brought about the withdrawal of fellowship. In 
later days he would be called a crank. He didn't like to have his wife 
drink tea, nor his family eat certain kinds of vegetables, as green corn. 
His overbearing nature in his family was the cause of his church trial. 
The name Smithfield is strange enough to arouse inquiry as to how he 
came by it. Possibly his parents had read up in Fox's Book of Martyrs, 
and so wished to prolong the name of this burning place in London. If so, 
their son displayed very little of the martyr spirit, and their naming was 
quite in vain. He was a wagon maker and commissioner of deeds. He 
and his family went to Michigan early in the fifties. Eli Knapp, a native 
of Galen, is the present occupant. His wife, who was Sarah J. Weeks, 
died in 1883. Their children are Cora L., Charlotte E. and Florence E. 
The first two are successful school teachers. 

Crossing to the east side, beyond the lane leading east from the old shop, 
is the home of Mrs. Lovina Van Antwerp. We made her acquaintance in 
the series on the Stewart district. The first James Colborn, after leaving 
his farm, lived and died here. His brother, Jonathan, the manufacturer 
of staves, was here before James. 

The next house is that of William Niles, from Chenango county, town of 
German, who holds some of the late E. N. Thomas' possessions. His wife 
was Caroline Briggs, a daughter of the late Jonathan B., of District No. 
2. Their children are Florence and William. Florence was recently 
married to George W. Wilson, of Butler. The house was once a familiar 
figure, on the site of the present Frank H. Closs house. When that man- 
sion was projected, this was moved hither and has been the home of 
numerous occupants ; among others of Lucius EUinwood and L. H. Dudley, 
now of Rochester, but who kept a hardware store where George Collier is 
at present. (Mr. Dudley died Oct. 7, 1893.) 

The elegant mansion of Charles S. Wright is just across the road. This 
stands where was the former home of Almira and Rhoda Gillett. They 
bought of Mr. Bemis, who, as a house carpenter, is met in other places in 
the village. Mr. W. built the house in 1855 and 1856, living in the Eb. 
Rising house at the time. With its appointments and surroundings, this 
is one of the most desirable homes in the village. Mr. Wright, a second 
cousin of E. N. Thomas, came to Rose from Pompey, Onondaga county, in 
1846. He was for a time in Mr. Thomas' employ, and then began business 
for himself, in 1848, in the present Valentine store, continuing there till he 
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Mr. Wright's enterprise covered many miles of the adjoining territory. In 
1883 he sold out his bflsiness, and since then has had no occupation to 
take him away from his home. He was supervisor in 1874-5, and was one 
of the most liberal givers toward the new Methodist Church, of which he 
had long been a member. A stroke of paralysis, sevei-al years since, has 
incapacitated him for active business. His -wife's maiden name was 
Laurinda E. Lee, a daughter of Joel N. Lee, long a resident north of the 
Valley. Their children are Irving L., now in the west, and F. Eva, at 
home. In building his house and store, Mr. Wright removed several 
buildings, one standing^on the corner, which had been used for various 
kinds of mercantile pursuits, as well as for a wagon shop at one time. 
Here Benjamin Hendricks kept the x^ost office for a short jjeriod. The 
selection of this site was an indication of Mr. Wright's judgment, and for 
thirty years, or from 1853, the year of his building, he was vigilant in his 
affairs. He also had the post office for a time. William Matthews was the 
successor of Mr. Wright in the store, and, after a couple of years, came the 
Fredendalls, who are still in the business. Barney M. once ran the grist- 
mill standing on the site of the old Presbyterian Church, owning also the 
old stone school-house, where he lived. He has gone back to the Hudson 
river region. His wife, Sarah H. A., died and was buried in Eose. His 
second wife was the widow of Mark Gillett. Henry Fredendall married 
Kate Armstrong, of the western part of the town, and lives over the store. 
He now manages the business alone. James F. married Mary Eelyea, of 
Albany county, and now keeps a store in the old brick building near the 
Baptist Church. He formerly lived in the little building west of the corner 
store, but his home is now on Wolcott street, nearly opposite the Baptist 
Church. A sister, Anna L., is the wife of John Osborn, who lives west of 
the village. 

Crossing over to the old Eising house, we have a reminder of the man who 
was for fifty years a familiar form in Eose. He came from the eastern part 
of the state in 1840, and for many years worked for E. N. Thomas. For 
some time he had been in poor health and died only a few months since. 
He married the widow of Eoyal Van Wort, and left one son, George. . 

Erou N. Thomas built the next house, and it was for a while the 
property and home of Lyman Wyckoff, now of Lyons. It is now owned 
by William Hamm, a son of Thomas, living on the street by the school-house. 
His wife was Mary Josephine Austin, and their children are : Emma Dora, 
Ellen and Augusta; a sou, Ezra Thomas, is dead. Dr. Draper, once 
familiar in these parts, formerly had his shingle here. 

The next remove brings us to the hotel, long one of the noted sites in 

Eose. From Lorenzo D. Thomas, the builder, to 3Iyron Brant, the 

present landlord, there have been many tenants. Among them were : N. 

W. Thomas, Hiram Salisbury and Samuel Jones, the father of Mrs. Hamel 

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Closs, who kept a temperance house for several years. William H. 
( ' ' Bill ' ' ) Saunders was one of the most prominent of these. Mention 
was first made of him in the Stewart series as having married Mary 
Wright. During his management, a race course was fitted up, inclosing 
ten or twenty acres of land back of the hotel barns, and including much of 
the territory covered by Thomas, Church and Dix streets. Of course, 
there were no such streets there and no buildings east of the Main street. 
Another noteworthy landlord was Stephen Thayer, of whom mention was 
made in the description of the upper, or Pimm's Hotel. Jacob Conroe, who 
preceded Mr. B., came from Savannah. He died December 18th, 1889, 
aged fifty-four years, leaving a wife, a son, John, and a daughter, Ada. 
Unquestionably, the site is one of the best for a place of public entertain- 
ment in this whole section of country. The small grove of trees just north 
of the tavern, has been the scene of many animated discussions, when, on 
warm, sunny days, the village wisdom assembles here, to settle all 
questions of business and state. Myron Brant comes of a Sodus family, 
said to be related to that which gave a name to the famous Mohawk chief, 
Joseph Brandt. John Brant, son of Peter, began housekeeping on the 
Jonathan Briggs farm in North Rose. Myron's wife is Louisa Harris, of 
Sodus. Their only daughter, Grace, is the wife of Edwin Weeks, of Rose. 
The store of George A. Collier brings us to the corner of Thomas street. 
In the second story is the well appointed lodge room of Rose Lodge No. 
590, Free and Accepted Masons. The store dates from 1854. The new 
edifice, on the corner south, built by Mr. Wright in the preceding year, 
had so dwarfed the old building on the Thomas possessions that Eron N. 
was prompted to erect this capacious structure. In it he maintained a 
store till 1859. To name the young men who, first and last, served Mr. 
Thomas in the capacity of clerks, would be to enumerate a large number 
of the middle-aged citizens of Rose to-day. Willard Sherman, Felton 
Hickok, Carroll Upson, Joel Shefiield and others have sold calicoes and 
groceries over these counters. Mr. Thomas was a shrewd man in his 
dealings, but always honorable. A certain neighbor and relative had long 
made a practice of filling his tobacco box from the store stock, doing this 
without leave or license and paying nothing for it. Wishing to stop such 
predacious conduct, Mr. T. said to his clerk: "Enter in your account, 

Mr. , three times a week, one-quarter pound chewing tobacco." 

This was done. At the end of the year, a settlement was proposed. 
"All right," says the neighbor, "how much does the account foot up? 
I'll pay it." "Look over the items," says the merchant. "I don't care 
anything about them," is the reply, "only give me' the summary." "But I 
want you to see the account," was the rejoinder. So they proceeded to 
scrutinize the entries. Soon the debtor's eyes rest upon, "one quarter 
pound of tobacco." "Hah!" says he. "I never bought any tobacco." 



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•"Oh, yes you did," says Mr. T. "You bought three times a week, and 
waited on yourself." The account was paid and the lover of the weed 
never helped himself again. The store stands near where Charles Thomas 
located his large barn, in which the Methodists held their first quarterly 

meetings in these parts. It was moved back and became one of the hotel 
barns. A Mr. Waterman had a store here for a time after E. N. T. Of 
him the story is told that he alluded to the body at a funeral as a fine 
looking "core." "Oh," says a listener, "you mean corpse." "No, I 
don't ; I got caught on that word once. I mean just what I say— it's a fine 

ooking core." Mr. Henry Van Tassel ran the store for a short time, and 
then Lucius H. Dudley kept a line of hardware goods for several years, 
maintaining a tin-shop. Mr. Dudley was of the Wolcott family of Dud- 
leys, his brother, Henry, having been the first man wounded in the Ninth 
Heavy Artillery. Mr. and Mrs. Dudley were regular and valuable attend- 
ants at the Methodist Church, the latter being a member. After Mr. 
Dudley came the Collier Bros., and then George alone. 

Again we will transport ourselves to the outskirts, and this time we 
pause on Lyons street, at the home of Henry Jeffers, whose wife was Mary 
Haviland. They have one son, Bert. This place is the property of 
Eobert N. Jeffers, and here a considerable part of his life was passed. 
His first wife was Maria Winchell, who had been twice married before, 
first to Henry Streeter, and second to John Hellar. His second wife was 
Sarah L. Holbrook. The son, Henry, is a twin, his sister being Henrietta, 
who married Bert Wilkinson, and has two children— Dell and Cora. Her 
home is near the eastern end of this street. The youngest child of Mr. 
Jeffers is Lina, who married Granville Armstrong, of Butler, and lives in 
that town. One child was lost in infancy. Mr. Jeffers is a son of that 
Nathan who lived in District No. 11, and was the progenitor of so 
numerous a family. Few men in town have owned so many acres of land. 
During the last fifty years he has stood ready to purchase whatever was 
for sale. He bought the farm of eighty- six acres from Lucius Ellin wood, 
who lived here a year. Before him, for many years, was David Holmes, 
who will be remembered as marrying Solomon Mirick's daughter, Amanda. 
He was the occupant and owner, almost if not quite, from the beginning. 
Mr. Holmes reared here six children, who were : Catharine ; Alphonso 
O., for many years a coal dealer in Clyde; Elizabeth; Ira; Lucy, and 
George G., who died from wounds received in the army. He was a mem- 
ber of Co. A, 111th N. Y. Inf. Mr. Holmes, who built the house, finally 
moved to Palmyra. 

The place opposite, i. e., on the south side of the street, is the property 
of Eugene Hickok. Aman by the name of Lord once owned, and Harrison 
Ellinwood, a son of Lucius, lived here for a time. In the old lot there 
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Mr. Hickok himself lives next east, iu a house that dates back to 
Andrew Healy, who built it. The original log house stood near. Mr. H. 
married Narcissa Colvin, of District No. 7. They have had two children — 
Horton E. and Jennie. The former died January 9th, ISSS, aged 19 years. 
The latter married Clinton J. Earless, and died January Sth, 1889, leaving 
a little girl, Musetta A. Mr. Hickok is one of the most prominent Gran- 
gers in Rose, and is an enthusiastic believer iu the beneficent possibilities 
of the organization. His brother, William Felton, preceded him here, and 
this takes us back to war times. The farm belonged to the father, William. 
As stated, Andrew Healy was the one before Hickok. He was an Irish- 
man, who always was held in the highest respect by his neighbors. Him- 
self a Eoman Catholic, he brought his wife, Sally, and son, Andrew, to 
the Presbyterian Church in the village, while he went down to Clyde for 
his services. Mrs. Healy died in 18.57, at the age of 58 years. Mr. 
Healy and son went to Michigan, where the latter married a daughter of 
Marcus P. Wade, a relative of the family so long identified with this town. 
Mr. Hickok has made a specialty of raising pop or tucket corn. This 
town has become noted in agricultural specialties, and this one has only 
just popped in. 

Still moving eastward, we may find the home of Judson Chaddock, a 
son of William, the second mention of whom was made in the No. 9 series. 
His first wife was Addie Hoyt, and his second Katie Cuyler. A daughter, 
Myrtle, by his first marriage, lives with her aunt, Mrs. Cephas Bishop. 
There are fifty-two acres in the farm, which extends northward to the next 
road. William Matthews was here before Mr. C, and he bought of Eron 
N.Thomas. Stephen Boyce and James Packard took the farm from the 
office. The old log house was near the southeast corner of the lot. 
Matthews repaired the present house. 

The place next east, on the south side, was occupied in 1890 by James 
Van Amburgh, a brother of Harmon, late of the Griswold district. Mr. 
Yan A. married Sarah Jane Wiuchell, a daughter of John D. They have 
two children — John and Ida. (Philander Griswold, who married Sophia 
Soper, of the Valley, now lives here. The place is owned by Nelson 
Morgan, of Newark, who bought of W. O. Gillett. "Bill" Saunders built 
the house. About liQ acres are in the farm. The Griswold children are 
Agnes S., Jennie E. and Nelson B.) 

The small house on the south side of the way, to the east, is now occu- 
pied by "Colley" Wood. He recently bought from the Conroe estate. 
The house was built away back in the woods and there occupied by the 
builder, Mr. Walmsley. To get at the farm proper, we must follow the 
lane back to the large barn, near which is a tall windmill, conspicuous 
from afar. There are forty-seven acres in the place, once owned by E. 
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has been known as the Saunders farm. Dr. Peter Valentine owned a lot 
in back of this, long known by his name. 

The clean, white house belonging to R. N. Jeffers next appears. It was 
built by Harry Valentine, who sold to Charles ^Yhite. Valentine bought 
of Holbrook. There are twenty acres in the farm, bringing us to the old 
canal or ditch. (In 1S9.3 occupied by Bert Haviland.) 

Crossing the road, we find the abode of Elijah Osborn, whose family 
name we encountered in District No. 6. Excepting the people who held 
the place on contract, Mr. Osborn had no predecessors here. A Mr. 
IngersoU cut off the timber, thereby depriving it of just so much value. 
There are seventy-five acres in the farm, which Mr. O. keeps in a high 
state of cultivation. His wife was Jane Van Antwerp, of that same 
School District, No. 6. They have only one son, Edward, found Just over 
the stream, east. Mr. Osboni sells many agricultural implements along 
with his farming, and ]\Irs. O. cultivates the beautiful, in the shape of many 
and varied flowers. All the buildings on the place have come from Mr. 
Osborn's energy and industry. 

A bridge carries us safely over the creek, a favorite bathing pool for the 
boys, and was long the Baptist place for immersion, where, just at our 
right, is the house of Hudson E. Wood, now occupied by Mrs. Nathan 
Jeffers, her son, Charles (who recently married Augusta Hamm), and 
daughter Laura. Mrs. Jeffers is the mother of the present Mrs. Wood. 
Mr. Wood has been met repeatedly in our town rambles. His first wife 
was Catharine Collins, daughter of Thaddeus, 2d, and his children were 
named in other series. I repeat them here. Leora married George 
Saunders, and, having a son and daughter, lives in Toledo, Ohio ; Prank, 
the wife of George G. Roe, of Clyde, has one child, Edra; Harriet married, 
first, a Leonard, and married a second time, she now lives in the west; the 
youngest, G. Collins, has been met in the village. Many proprietors have 
been here, as Emanuel Walmsley, who bought of Alonzo Snow. An In- 
gersoU lived here, while cutting off the wood from Elijah Osborn's place. 
The large house was started by Solomon Allen, when he came down from 
Vermont. Before it was finished. Gen. Adams had begun his famous 
canal and the consequent loss inflicted serious damage, much to Mr. Allen's 
advantage. The log house identified with the lot stood over the creek, 
near the white house on the south side of the road. Tradition here does 
not go back of the name of Alfred Lee, one of the Vermont quartette of 
brothers who were prominent in Rose affairs in its early history. He was 
one of the constituent members of the Rose Methodist Episcopal Church. 
From his son, Luther L., I learn that Alfred Lee was born in Dudley, 
Mass. His birthday was January 30th, 1783, and it would seem reason- 
able that his parents were among those who took advantage of cheap 
Vermont lands, and so moved north, as did very many other farmers in Con- 



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necticut and Massachusetts. He was married December 3d, 1806, to Miss 
Aseneth Harwood, in Brookline, Vermont. She was a native, November 
28th, 1781, of Walpole, N. H. He moved from Vermont to Waterloo, 
Seneca Co., in 1820, and came to Rose in 1822 or '23. His children's 
names were Anson, Laura, Marantha, Emeline, Maria, Alfred C, Joel N., 
Aseneth J. and Luther L. The latter was born in Rose, May 13th, 1824. 
As he was the youngest, it would seem as though the other children were 
born in Waterloo or Vermont. The family moved from Rose February 
28th, 1833, to Jefferson, Ashtabula Co., Ohio, and there Alfred Lee died 
May 26th, 1868. His wife died November 22d, 1872, very nearly ninety- 
one years old. The saw-mill, of which Alfred Lee was the proprietor, was 
located to the north of the road, nearer Sodus street. Like other indica- 
tions of the early settlers, it long since disappeared. Mr. Lee has kindly 
furnished other data, as follows : Anson Lee was born November 1st, 1807, 
in Brookline, Vt.; married, December 28th, 1831, in Hopewell, N. Y., 
Sarah A. Church. He died April 10th, 1844, in Jefferson, Ohio. His wife 
died in Iowa. They had three sons — John C, Orchard, Mitchell Co., 
Iowa; Julius A., in Dakota; and Joel in Jefferson. 

Elijah Osborn's son, Edward, who married Emma Ellsworth, lives 
opposite. He bought of the Dickson estate and built the house. He is a 
skilled mechanic. 

Now follow several houses, all on the north side, unless otherwise 
specified. In the first dwells John Weeks, a son of James, in District No. 
11. He married Ellen Swift, and they have six children, viz.: William 
Henry; Alice E., a recent graduate of Geneseo Normal School ; Nellie L., 
John W.; Charles H., and Lena V. As in all cases on this side of the 
street, the lot formerly belonged to Dr. Dickson. 

Irving Austin and his wife, who was Iva J. Willis, have two children — 
William T. and Anna May. They have lived here for several years, buy 
ing from Thomas Hamm, who built the house ten years ago. 

William Coates dwells next, he having bought of William Hamm. Mrs. 
Coates was Margaret Burkle. 

In the next house east, we shall find James Vanderoef and family. He 
■ bought of Mrs. Sarah Williams, and the house was built by George Seager. 
Mr. V. is a son of the late Jonn Vanderoef and Sarah Town, his wife. 
Mrs. Vanderoef is a daughter of Emanuel Walmsley. They have three 
daughters— Nellie, Alice and Maud. Nellie was recently married to J. H. 
Van Antwerp, another time-honored Rose name. 

Close by is the old Rose toll gate, somewhat added to. Frank So per 
once held it, and it is now in the charge of Landlord E. T. Pimm. At last 
account it was unoccupied. 

In the small cottage opposite, lives Mrs. John H. Ruppert, a widow of 
German nativitv. She once lived in District No. 10, or Covell's. With 



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her is her nephew, Foster Moslein, who once kept a market in the village. 
Philip Stopfel once owned and traded with the widow. Harris Bemis 
lived here years since, and Robert Jeffers remembers that from him he 
borrowed a broad axe, when, a young man, he undertook to score and hew 
out the timber for his barn, on the present Milem place. It is probable 
that the house was built by Robert Andrews, noteworthy in " ye olden 
times " as the first shoemaker, and as fully maintaining the reputation for 
sportive jest of those who pound the lapstone. The story is told of Harris 
Bemis that he was once very ill, so much so that watchers had to sit up 
with him. "Uncle" John Bassett and George Howland were acting in 
this capacity, when their patient proclaimed that he wanted something to 
eat, insisting that he should not die hungry. They asked him what he 
would like. Much to their astonishment, he looked away over an ill man's 
regimen, and chose pudding and milk. They got it for him, and, being a 
great smoker, they propped him up in bed and gave him his pipe, after he 
had finished his lunch. When he had fallen asleep, as he soon did, the 
watchers discussed the ill man's condition. " Well, what do you think of 
him, Uncle John?" says Mr. Howland. "Oh," replies the worthy black- 
smith, "give him a little more pudding and milk, and I guess he'll get 
well." 

Across the way is a house owned by Mrs. John Phillips. Here live 
Ephraim Wilson, Jr., and his family. They were met when living on 
Wolcott street. Mr. Wilson is now town clerk. The house was built by 
Harmon Miner. 

The next house is the home of Emanuel Walmsley, long the careful and 
diligent keeper of the Rose cemetery. A native of Lincolnshire, England, 
he came to this country when young, yet his speech will ever betray him 
as one whose vernacular is from beyond the seas. He has been met before, 
as a dweller further west. His wife was Elizabeth Wilkinson, but for 
more than twenty years she has lain in the cemetery, so long her husband's 
care. They had eight children, of whom Louisa married James Vanderoef, 
living near, and Hannah is the wife of G. A. Sherman. Born in 1810, Mr. 
Walmsley bears his years with remarkable vigor. His second wife was 
the widow of John T. Talton. 

Advancing toward the east, we find, on the south side of the road, the 
house long identified with the name of Hoi brook. Jester L. Holbrook was 
born in Townsend, Vermont, and his wife was Margaret Smith, a sister of 
the second wife of the first Valorous Ellinwood. It was about 1835 or 
1836 that he came to Rose and purchased the tannery, long maintained 
near. He bought of X. W. Thomas. Traces of the tannery may still be 
seen, but ere many years all indications of the vats will have vanished, and 
nothing will be found to mark where once was a flourishing industry. The 
site was just to the west of the house. Back of it may be found the creek 



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or stream which General Adams fancied might be transformed into a water 
highway. The Holbrook children were : Sarah L. , now Mrs. E. X. Jeffers ; 
Frances M. and Franklin, twins ; William A.; Jester H., and F. Adelle. 
The latter is Mrs. Francis Osborn, of the Covell district (lately deceased) ; 
William A. married Sarah Frear, a Pennsylvanian, and lives in Rochester, 
having four children — Webster C, Ella, Frances and Willie; Jester H. 
learned his father's trade. The sisters, Sarah and Frances, were for twenty 
years the milliners for the village, having their store in one of the small 
buildings near the corner store. Miss Frances M. Holbrook still lives in 
the old home, the parents having died several years ago. In their lives 
they were substantial members of the Methodist Church. Miss Frances 
Holbrook, of Rochester, was married September 6th, 1892, to James 
Crumble, of that city. For some years, "Aunty" Harriet Stevens, who 
once lived on the Alonzo Chaddock place and who is in her 95th year, has 
lived here. 

Should we call at the next house, we should find Mr. and Mrs. Robert N. 
Jeffers, of whom extended mention was made at the first home as we entered 
the district from the west. (Mr. J. died June 11th, 189.3.) There are 
two small buildings yet remaining before reaching the corner. In one of 
these the Misses. Holbrook long had a millinery store. Here died "Aunty" 
Campbell, so long a loving charge and care of the Methodist Church. 

The last home to be noted, in this extended series of rambles through 
Rose, is that of Frank H. Closs, the large brick house on the northwest 
corner, where Lyons street enters Main. In many respects, it has long 
been the most important spot in town. Here was held the first town 
meeting, and about it, in one way or another, revolved much of the town 
history. In 181.5 Capt. John Sherman built a double log house, somewhat 
back of where the brick structure now stands, using one end for a dwell- 
ing, the other for a tavern, the first in this part of the then town of 
Wolcott. Later the plant passed into the hands of Capt. Sherman's son- 
in-law, Charles Woodward, who sold to Jacob Miller, and from him it 
became the property of Charles Thomas. This was in 1825, and from that 
date it has been in the possession of some member of the Thomas family. 
Mr. Miller built the first framed building here, which, enlarged, stood for 
many years a conspicuous object on the corner. About thirty years ago, 
it was removed to the east side of Main street, where we find it to-day, 
the abode of Mr. Niles. Upon the old site was reared the elegant house 
now standing. 

The Thomases came originally from Massachusetts, though Charles 
Thomas moved from Pompey, Onondaga county, to Rose. His wife was 
Polly Wright, and no pioneer ever had a more earnest or determined 
helpmeet. Both of them were prominent in the early days of Rose 
Methodism. After Mr. Thomas' death, which took place in 1830, she 



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married a Mr. Clark, of Canistota. Her latest years were passed with her 
daup;hter, Mrs. George Mirick, dying in 1863. The children of Charles 
and Polly Thomas were: Nathan, born in 1807, who married Mary, 
daughter of Jacob Miller, having four children — Polly, Harriet, Dan C. 
and John. The second child was Sophia, whose first husband was Isaac 
Crydenwise, and second. Dr. J. J. Dickson. Her son, Isaac Crydenwise, 
took the name of Dickson ; her other son. Ensign Dickson, has long been 
well-known in Rose. Elsie O. Thomas became Mrs. Geo. W. Mirick, and 
of her mention was made as we passed along the Clyde road. Eron jS^oble 
Thomas was older than Mrs. Mirick, but I have purposely withheld his 
name for the very last mention in this list of Eose residents, for to him 
and his family these final words belong. In boyhood Mr. Thomas was an 
invalid, so much so that long months were passed in bed, yet not so weak 
that he could not read and study. An object thus of tender solicitude to 
his parents, means were found to gratify an inquiring mind till he became 
one of the best posted young men of the vicinity, and his fund of general 
information was always noteworthy. His illness finally necessitated the 
amijutation of one of his legs, but its artistic substitute was so serviceable 
that, in subsequent years, he was able to move quite as quickly as those 
to whom nature had been kinder. What might have been to some a great 
loss, was to him really a blessing in disguise, for he, with excellent mental 
attainments, became an active and useful man. One of his first essays in 
work was that of clerking for John Barber, Jr., later ot Clyde, who kept 
the first store in Rose Valley. This was about 1831, and to Barber's 
business Mr. Thomas succeeded. From that date to the time of his death, 
there were very few great interests in the town in which he had not a part. 
His first wife was Lucy Ann Davis, of Butler, and their only child who 
survived infancy is Paul Jerome, now of New York City, but for many 
years one of the most noted men in the town. Mrs. Thomas died in 1843, 
and, second, Mr. Thomas married, in 1814:, Mrs. Rachel (Elton) Gaylord. 
The latter was born in Burlington, Conn., and her first husband was 
Marvin J. Gaylord, of Bristol, Conn., by whom she was the mother of 
three children — Ellen M. ( Mrs. William H. Lyon, of Brooklyn), Josephine 
and Marvin E. The latter two are not living. To Mr. Thomas she bore 
Zadora G., who is Mrs. Frank H. Closs, and Corinne E., who married J. 
Henry Morrow, of Waterbury, Conn. Mrs. Thomas was a woman of 
commanding figure and inspiring presence. Though nearly eighty years 
of age at the time of her death, in 1891, few would suspect her to be more 
than three score and ten. After Mr. Thomas' death, she had lived much 
in Brooklyn and Connecticut, with her daughters. Many will remember 
Corinne, the younger daughter, as a school girl with hair ever in glossy 
ringlets. Her husband was for some time editor of the Waterhunj Repub- 
lican, but a few years since the family removed to Los Angeles, Cal. 



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They have four children. Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Closs have a pleasant 
family of seven children, whose names are Nellie T., M. Josephine, Fred 
William, Wilbert H., Ellen H., Eachel E. and Frank H. For this inter- 
esting group, the parents have provided excellent educational advantages, 
and the eldest daughter is now a musical director in Wisconsin. To the 
observer who only occasionally visits the old scenes, it is delightful to 
note that one modern home is brightened by the presence of many children. 

Returning to Eron N. Thomas, it should be stated that, irrespective of 
politics, he always stood high in the opinions of his fellow citizens. They 
elected him to about all the offices in their gift that he would accept, 
including a year in the Assembly, the winter of 1862. In Albany he was 
highly esteemed, as is evident from letters sent to him by Governor 
Horatio Seymour. It is told of him that, during an exceedingly cold and 
dreary winter, when many men in the Valley were out of work, he deliber- 
ately sat down and considered what he could do to give them employment, 
and he entered upon a scheme of getting out stave bolts, saying: "I 
shall not make one cent, but I shall have the satisfaction of keeping the 
wolf from many a poor man's door. I don't like to think of hungry 
children." How would that do for an epitaph ? Mr. Thomas' figure is 
very familiar in memory, though it was in 1874 that friends bore his 
remains to the Eose cemetery. He was below the average stature, rather 
heavy in build. His face betokened generosity, while his heavy lower 
jaw told of giant firmness. His countenance lighted up easily, and no one 
enjoyed a joke or a song better. There were few gatherings of the people 
wherein he was not found, if time and health would permit. Many of the 
Eose citizens lived longer lives in point of years, but few crowded more into 
their periods of existence ; and when we consider the physical difficulties 
under which he labored, the record seems little less than wonderful. 

Here, then, the record ends. With me, the readers have gone over 
every highway and through some of the byways of our good town of Eose, 
so redolent in names. Since we began our journeyings, many who started 
with us have fallen out to repose in the various burial grounds encountered 
in our progress. May they rest in peace, and may we, too, fight a good 
fight and keep the faith, and may we never lose any of the interest due to. 
the town in which we were born. 

"Breathes there the man with soul so dead, 
Who never to himself hath said, 
This is my own, my native land ! " 



ROSE AND WAYNE. 

An Addeess Delivered in Eose, N. Y., July 4th, 1889, 

BY ALFRED S. ROE. 

"Man, through all ages of revolving time. 
Unchanging man, in every varying clime. 
Deems his own land of every land the pride. 
Beloved by heaven o'er all the world beside ; 
His home, the spot of earth supremely blest, 
A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest." 

— James Montgomery. 

1789—1889. 

A hundred years ! In that interval generations of men have come, 
have played their brief part and have gone. Then France, awakening 
from the lethargy of centuries, was girding herself for the destruction of 
the Bastile ; for the liberation of the masses, and for the guillotining of 
crowned heads. The Napoleonic battles, called by Hugo the readjustment 
of the universe, were yet to be fought ; for the being who prompted them 
was still scarcely more than a boy, a subaltern at Valence. England, just 
recovered from the struggle with her colonies, was breathing more rapidly 
over the eloquence of Edmund Burke, as he impeached Warren Hastings 
in the name of heaven and humanity. America, adjusting herself to her 
new condition of freedom, had accepted a Constitution for the United 
States of America, and, under the presidency of George Washington, was 
pushing out into the unexplored territory of the west. 

Now France celebrates the centennial of the destruction of the Bastile 
and, escaped from kings and emperors of whatever line, smiles, a republic. 
England, under her Victorian Queen, forgets the animosities of Bunker 
Hill and Yorktown, and, in the van of nations, disputes with America 
only the leadership in thought and liberty. America, a universal refuge, 
has repeatedly accomplished the nominal impossible — for a teeming popu- 
lace fills the Great American Desert, making it bud and blossom as the 
rose ; an iron road-bed crosses the Rocky mountains, over which loaded 
trains ascend and descend as easily as did angels in the patriarch's vision 
the ladder reaching heavenward ; away above the East river shipping, 



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apparently as stable as earth herself, a mighty arch binds the twin cities 
of New York and Brooklyn — a bow rivaling in promise that which spanned 
the firmament when the receding waters released the prisoners of the Ark; 
for one gave assurance of no more deluge and desolation, while the other 
forecasts the infinite possibilities of science and art ; five hundred and 
fifty feet above the base, at times among the clouds, shines the aluminum 
tip, whose refulgence tells of the gratitude of the republic to him whom all 
call the Father of his Country ; the Washington monument eclipses all 
similar structures, and, standing in the national capital— itself a growth of 
the century — it may look back over the contests of the hundred years ; 
over the liberation and enfranchisement of a race ; over the waxing and 
waning of reputations; over high officials slain in office ; over the develop- 
ment of the country and the almost utter annihilation of the impossible. 

Till March, 1789, what is now Wayne county was virgin soil. South- 
ward a line of settlements had led to the west, and, even in Revolutionary 
days, the Indian whoop and scalping knife had proclaimed the presence of 
adventurous whites, along what we call the southern tier. Water-ways 
had borne the exploring French over vast areas to the Mississippi. On 
the north, the waters of Ontario had for ages laved the beach, as yet 
untrodden by the feet of white men. Oswego, a strategic point, had long 
been held, and hostile arrays had moved up and down the Oswego river ; 
but what this country possessed in the way of civilization was still in the 
far east. As when the English rulers gave a charter to a colony, they 
made the western limit the setting sun, or the very nearest, the Pacific 
ocean, so the earliest formed county, west of the Hudson, was named 
Albany and included everything in the state to the westward. This was 
in 1683, and while Mohawk, Oneida, Cayuga, Onondaga or Seneca roamed 
at will over this vast domain, the name remained unchanged till 1772, 
when Tryon county was organized, embracing all that territory west of a 
line running north and south, through the middle point of Schoharie 
county, and was thus called from William Tryon, then governor of the 
province. The Revolution speedily followed, and at its end, the patriotic 
inhabitants could not endure the name of a loyalist governor and so 
changed it to Montgomery, thus recalling the thrilling scene before the 
gates of Quebec. But the star of empire was steadily moving westward, 
and in 1791 the setting off of Herkimer county permitted the application 
of the name of the hero of Oriskany. The area included all between the 
present eastern boundary of Herkimer county and the eastern line of 
Ontario, erected in 1789, this running along the eastern side of Lyons and 
Sodus. Of that part of Wayne county we will speak later. Now we will 
trace the further changes in that part of the county where we meet to-day. 
In 1794 there was another slicing off, and one portion became a part of 
Onondaga ; again a division in 1799, and we became a part of Cayuga. 



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In 1804 another tribal name came to lis, through the creation of Seneca 
county, whose extreme northern town, Junius, included the present town- 
ship of Huron, Wolcott, Butler, Rose, Galen and Savannah. 

Thus we continued until April 11th, 1S23, when the above part of 
Junius from Seneca and Sodus, Lyons, Williamson, Palmyra and Ontario 
from Ontario county were united to bear the cognomen of that glorious 
veteran of the Eevolution, "Mad " Anthony Wayne. The leader at Stony 
Point had been sleeping more than a quarter of a century on the shores of 
Erie when he was thus remembered in this shire of ours, and the creation 
of Marion township, in 1826, from Williamson, gave the hero Revolutionary 
company. There is a whimsical jumble of names in our county that will 
bear a moment's contemplation. The word Wayne is melodious, terse 
and suggestive; Marion, too, arouses a host of memories, and Williamson, 
on the north, is quite in place as the name of the first agent of the Pulteney 
estate, but on the south we step into the past and Palmyra. One naturally 
looks for Thebes hard by, for the names are so commonly joined in story, 
but instead, if we go west, we are in the domain of Philip and Alexander, 
or Macedon, while, should we journey east, our way will lead into Arcadia, 
the land so often praised by poets as the abode of peace and innocence. 
The name of the bordering lake fitly appears in one division, while just 
below it is the town named from Chancellor Reuben Hyde Walworth. 
From Arcadia we make only a step and Grecian reminders cease and we 
are in France, "sunny France;" at any rate, the town is Lyons, and all 
school children will tell you that Lyons is the second city in France. Just 
one, and one only, reminder of Indian occupation is had in Sodus, but 
that must go back to Assorodus, before we find the aboriginal for "silvery 
water." Possibly Huron may be of American origin, in its recalling of 
the great northern tribe of savages ; but east of it is Wolcott, a loyal 
tribute to the memory of Gov. Oliver Wolcott, of Connecticut. The origin 
of Butler is probably in that Richard Butler, who, with Oliver Wolcott 
and Arthur Lee, was appointed by the government of the United States to 
negotiate with the Six Nations in 1784. Rose comes from a purchaser of 
a large tract of land, including that on which we now are gathered. Galen 
owes its title to so queer a notion as the ascribing that part of the military 
tract, covered by the township, to the medical department, and in its 
annals, who so prominent as him of Pergamus '? The jumping-off place is 
reached when we get to Savannah, along the Seneca river, and the name of 
the town explains itself. So then, in these fifteen towns, we have ancient 
history and geography drawn upon along with those of modern times, 
beside an occasional reference to individuals and to the aborigines. 

The first settlements were made within the bounds of the present towns 
of Palmyra and Lyons, and through these settlements the exercises of 
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Connecticut or New York sailed up the Hudson to the Mohawk ; then by 
means of a pole he pushed his craft up that stream till he reached the site 
of the present city of Rome, when his boat and effects were carried across 
the country, a mile and a half, to Wood creek, down which he floated to 
Oneida lake. The wind might propel him the length of that body of water, 
and down its outlet, Oneida river, to its junction with the Seneca to form 
the Oswego. Then he turned his prow southward, travelling the sluggish 
stream till he entered the Clyde river, up which he went till he dropped 
anchor at Lyons or Palmyra. This journey, under favorable circumstances, 
covered twenty-eight days. Among the many changes of the one hundred 
years, no one is more marked than the improvement in locomotive 
facilities. Yesterday your speaker breakfasted within forty-four miles of 
the city of Boston. It was not till nearly ten A. M. that he took the cars 
for the Empire State, yet at nine p. m. he was landed at the station on the 
very banks of that river along which, a century since, our ancestors pushed 
their clumsy bateaux, at scarcely more than a snail's pace. 

Of the events incident to the towns of Palmyra and the old area of 
Lyons, it would be interesting to speak, for in Palmyra, Mormonism had 
its origin, and in Arcadia, set off from Lyons, the famous Fox sisters set 
the world to thinking about the phenomena of Spiritualism ; but it will be 
better for us to confine ourselves to a " pent-up Utica," and to tell of those 
narrower bounds that inclose what to the majority present is our native 
town. 

" With what a pride I used to walk these hills." They first beheld the 
tottering steps of my childhood, and now look solemnly down upon the 
graves of my grandsires, and, though more than half of my life has been 
passed out of my native state and only a small fraction in this, the town 
where I first saw the light, there has never been a moment when I could 
not reproduce at will " many a path beloved of yore and well remembered 
walk." In our company there is no one with soul so dead that he hath 
not o'er and o'er said, " This is my own, my native land." No boy nor 
girl, however mischievous, has ever climbed these steep hills, to roll down 
stones in summer and snow-balls in winter, without pausing to drink in 
great draughts of inspiration from the grandeur of the scene. From several 
points in this town may be seen the waters of the lake, while in other 
directions we may gaze beyond the borders of our own township. When 
nature gives an extra turn to her kaleidoscope, and, in a mirage, throws 
upon the sky the lake shore, can anything be more glorious ? These hills, 
left by the melting glaciers of an early age, are a peculiar feature of our 
landscape, and nowhere in our country is there better evidence of water 
and ice action in the formation of the earth's surface, and in no town in the 
county are the results better marked, than here in Rose. It was Auerbach 
who said that on every height there lies repose. Though we may be 



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tempted to spend hours in visual feasting as we scan the scene from their 
summits, certain it is that nothing tends more to thrill the soul of man 
than the sight of lofty eminences. Though these of ours do not approach 
the mountains in height, yet I believe they have so impressed themselves 
on the youth of this town that from whatever station, looking back to their 
old home, no fancy would be complete without the familiar contour of the 
north and south ranges of hills. 

"Ye hills of Wayne ! ye hills of Wayne ! 
In dreams I see your slopes again — 
In dreams my childish feet explore 
Your daisied dells, beloved of yore. 
In dreams, with eager feet, I press 
Far up your heights of loveliness. 
And stand, a glad-eyed boy again. 
Upon the happy hills of Wayne." 

The earliest settlements in our county were sixteen years old when, in 1805, 
the pioneers turned northward from the Clyde river and pushed out into 
the wilderness, following, possibly, pretty nearly the direction and location 
of the present Clyde and Wolcott road. Before that date our section had 
been the hunting ground of the savage. This part of the state seemed to be 
held in a sort of joint ownership by the Cayugas, Onondagas and Mohawks, 
of the Six Nations, and they were the triljes that signed away their rights, 
when a grateful nation determined to pay in land a part of the debt owed 
to those who had fought during the Eevolutionary war. Of this Indian 
occupation we have very little trace. Occasionally the farmer turns up an 
arrow head in his plowing, and Mrs. George Aldrich, of X^orth Eose, has 
an excellent gouge or scoop ; but to my knowledge there is no other utensil 
of the kind among us. There are no traces of burial places nor villages, 
but that game was abundant, thus affording the savage a reason for roam- 
ing over this part of the country, all early settlers agree. Even after the 
coming of the white man, his red brother was a frequent guest as he flitted 
phantom-like over the region wliich he once called his own. I some- 
times wonder if the Chief [Logan, to whose memory those patriotic words, 
engraved upon the pyramidal structure in Fort Hill, Auburn, " Who is 
left to weep for Logan ? " may not have followed the chase hither, or 
whether, in the remoter past, hostile Hurons may not have skirted the 
lake and Assorodus bay to the point of debarking in our own town as they 
preyed upon the more peaceful Iroquois. But all this is fancy, for long 
since the Indians "slowly and sadly climbed the western hills and read 
their doom in the setting sun." The sword of the white man has swept 
them away. The land they left was devoted to the soldiers of the Eevolu- 
tion ; but very few of them ever occupied the lots assigned to them. They 
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them. In the vicissitiules incident to the Phelps and Gorham purchase^ 
whose new eastern line ran along the western part of this town, the state 
gave to the successors of the original purchasers of the Pulteney estate, 
certain parts of the military tract, and in this way our location came into 
the care of Captain Williamson as agent, and from him, finally, the 
Geneva land oifice passed under the direction of Messrs. Fellows & 
McNab, whose names may be found upon the deeds of all the original 
farms in our vicinity. Osgood Church, one of the first settlers of Wolcott, 
father of that worthy veteran, Hiram Church, was a sub-agent for the 
estate, and his old sale book, still in existence, is a precious relic of the 
early part of the century. 

It was in 1805, then, that, armed with their deeds of sale from the 
patentees, Caleb Melvin, Alpheus Harmon and others made the beginnings 
in our town. Melvin's location was on or near the Thomas place, south of 
the Valley. He was a relative of the first Thaddeus Collins, who was 
another early comer, the father of probably the latest survivor of those who 
moved into Rose. I refer to Stephen Collins, our aged and revered fellow 
citizen. But 4,000 acres in this very centre of the present town had been 
bought by Major Eobert S. Eose and Judge Nicholas, both Virginians, but 
then of Geneva ; so the giving of titles was still further mooted. Alpheus 
Harmon located his log hut near a spring, still flowing, a little east of 
Stewart's school-house, and there remained till the moving spirit carried 
him further west. A granddaughter, Mrs. Ambrose Lockwood, of Butler, 
only recently died. A near neighbor on the west was Lot Stewart, who 
came to the then Wolcott from Saratoga county. We of to-day can have 
little conception of the nerve necessary to carry our ancestors over their 
long and tedious march hither. In this gathering, to-day, are descendants 
of those who first walked, with knapsacks upon their backs, to this 
wilderness to inspect and locate their purchases. Coming from Massachu- 
setts, Connecticut or the Hudson river counties of our own state, we can 
properly rate the distance traveled. Then, returning, they fitted up a 
vehicle, to serve as wagon and house, and often, with slow moving ox 
team, started, in some cases with a numerous family of small children, on 
their journey of hundreds of miles. Eoads as we know them had no exist- 
ence. Streams must be forded, ferried, or " gone around," and then after 
weeks of shaking and jolting, following blazed trees, camping by the side 
of some spring or creek, the home is reached. And what a home ! Let 
the cultivated fields and comfortable houses of to-day disappear. In their 
places stands the primeval forest, and close by the perennial fountain, 
furnished by nature, is the early settler's home. In his first visit he had 
cut down and piled up certain trees, covering the enclosure as best he 
could, and into this abode the weary mother and fretful children are 
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them. When this is grown, there is no mill near by to grind it, so the 
inventive pioneer hollows out the top of a stump, and for this he will not 
have to go far, and in this primitive mortar brays his first fruits. Fancy, 
if you can, the agony of friends when disease came among them and singled 
out its victims. The old and the young, the weak and the strong were 
alike liable. The facilities of the old home were not to be had, and only 
patience, and faithfulness in the use of such medicines as the forest 
afforded, were of any avail. And should death, always terrible, take from 
the circle the aged matron, who had joined the migration, or the tiny baby, 
whose coming had speedily followed the settlement, where was the minister 
who should speak the usual words of consolation 1 When the grave was 
dug, in the newly cleared vicinity, and the body of the loved one was laid 
away for time and eternity, who can portray the desolation that must have 
been felt in the scantily furnished home ! 

In spite, however, of all hindrances, population poured in till, in 1810, 
the original town of Wolcott possessed 480 inhabitants. Immigration was 
rapid, and the difficulties of assembling for town meetings, alternately at 
Wolcott Village and Stewart's corners, resulted in the dismemberment of 
the old town and the creation of three new ones, viz., Eose, Huron and 
Butler. We may be pardoned a morsel of pride as we reflect that the year 
of our separation was the semi-centennial of the Declaration of Independ- 
ence, though we made our start in February rather than July. Had it 
occurred to the good people of this town to celebrate, in 1876, the nation's 
centennial and their own half century, what a goodly array of those 
who came to the wilderness as boys and girls might have been brought 
together ! 

This town of ours has been and still is eminently agricultural. The arts 
and manufactures so prominent in some sections have never been located 
here ; while this fact may account for the lack of large fortunes in the 
possession of any one individual, it is not without its agreeable features. 
As a rule, vast holdings presuppose the proximity of the very poor. Many 
doubtless have said : "If the Sodus canal or General Adams' ditch had 
only been put through, this town would have been much more flourishing." 
Location upon water-ways or trunk lines is not without its drawbacks. 
The man who grumbles thus may reflect that the crime and pauper average 
is correspondingly lower. The saw- mills which cut up the timber once 
standing here did not give place to the hum of the loom nor the rattle of 
the shoe factory, but the population has remained honest and homogeneous. 
Go to the churches in this village next Sunday and you will find the 
descendants of those who first broke into this primeval forest ; not so in 
the east, where ten years will nearly transform the personnel of a manu- 
facturing village. There are many worse surroundings than a farming 
community ; but what would the fathers say could they return and see the 



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methods of to-day ^. Those good old men who cleared away the trees, 
turned over the soil and sowed wheat which grew so heavy that it would 
scarcely bend as the farmer threw his heavy wool hat upon it ; what would 
they say were they to walk forth some fine day and see acres given to the 
growing of onions, where they devoted a few feet only ! Wouldn't they 
think that the habits of the people in the way of food had wonderfully 
changed ! And when they saw an adjoining field covered with a rank 
growth of peppermint, what would be their reflections on the popular 
stomach-ache "? As they passed large enclosures given to the growth of 
raspberries, may we not fancy some patriarch saying: " Well, I do declare, 
if these folks don't beat all ! In my day these things grew wild all over 
the back lots, and the boys and women folks had no trouble in finding all 
they wanted, but here are whole acres just covered with bushes, and it 
does look as if they had run cultivators through them, too. I wonder if 
folks have given up eating bread and have taken to berries 1 Strange 
times ! " Should he continue these investigations, he would find, on some 
farms, as much land given up to potatoes as to corn, and I can fancy him 
wondering if there is a greater percentage of Hibernians in the country now 
than there was in his day. Should his visit come in the autumn, he would 
be filled with wonder as he saw great loads of fine apples, not the crab 
apple kind, which grew on the trees that came from seeds of his planting, 
but large, smooth Greenings and Baldwins, carried — to the cider-mill ">. 
n«t at all, but to this queer building, one of whose most prominent 
features is a big chimney and which seems to be a great devourer of fuel. 
Here, should he look in, he will see the fruit speedily transformed into the 
whitest of dried apples, not in the least like the results of patient paring, 
quartering, coring and stringing of his time. Do you not think he would 
draw strange conclusions as to the likings of the present generation for 
dried apple pie ? In harvest what would be his wonderment at following 
one of those machines which cuts the grain and, binding it, drops it ready 
to be put into the shock. A few weeks earlier, would not his bones ache 
with very envy as he saw horses drawing a cutting bar, which did what it 
took many a sweep of his brawny arm with snath and blade to accomplish, 
and then when down, a machine, which, kicking like an exaggerated grass- 
hopper, stirred out the grass. Soon afterward, a man, boy, or perhaps a 
woman, comes riding along on a skeleton-like contrivance, which speedily 
gathers the hay into windrows. If away up in conveniences, the wagon 
and rack which follow will have a loader attached, and what cost him 
many a weary tug will now be done by horse power. He goes with the 
load to the barn, and just look at his eyes as he sees a large fraction of 
that mass, at the will of the party on the mow, put Just where he wishes, 
with no more effort on his part than merely to direct it. The horse down 
below is doing the lifting, and the boy who, in his grandfather's day, 



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sweat and suffered under the roof, with more or less hay seed down his 
back, cursing- the day he was born, is driving the horse. Do you believe 
this visitor from the cemetery would sigh to any great extent for the old 
times ? But since he is out, let's take him further and show him some of 
the utilities never dreamed of when he walked the earth. A creaking 
sound up aloft attracts his ears, and his eyes wonderingly behold the 
arms of an immense wind-mill. " Well, I vum ! What's that for? That 
beats all the contrivances of my day. We used to make little ones for fun, 
but this looks like business." "My revered ancestor, this is to pump 
water for the stock and to force it, when necessary, to all parts of the house 
and barn." "Do tell ! But I don't see any well for the water to come 
from, and I think that you folks of this centennial spell must be trying to 
live without work. In my day, we thought it the proper thing to drive the 
critters to the creek, summer and winter, and when it was real cold, it was 
somebody's job to keep the hole through the ice open. But just tell me 
where the water comes from. What ! you don't say that they just drive 
a pipe right down into the ground, and then set this 'ere thing to going ! 
If I had only known all about that, what a pile of digging and tugging I 
might have saved when I dug that forty-foot well, near the house, and 
stoned it up. But say, what's this about forcing water all over the house ? 
Tou don't mean to say that you have a cistern away up under the roof, and 
that you can let water run from it to every room in the house ? What's 
that ? Water runs into the bath-room ? You don't tell me that you've 
got a room where you can swim summer and winter ? Say ! let's get 
along toward the house. I want to look in. Bath room ! Well, I'm beat 
now ! When I was in my prime and the work was done, 'long toward 
night, we used to hitch up and all the men and boys went down to the 
pond and jumped in and splashed around till we'd had enough, but in the 
winter, why, we sort of waited till summer again ; but here you tell me 
that you can go in all the year around, and with warm water, too ! Now, 
just hold on ; that's going it a little too strong. I can believe a good deal ; 
but warm water to swim in in winter ! That won't do." However, our 
doubter enters, and where the capacious fire-place once devoured cords of 
wood, he beholds the modern " air-tight," consuming only a tithe of the 
matter, yet sending out vastly more heat, and as for convenience, as far 
beyond the fire-place as that was better than a stump fire. He soon 
understands how water may be heated and sent to the bath or any other 
room^ in the building. He beholds carpeted floors, where in his day they 
were, at the best, sanded. From the parlor or sitting-room come the notes 
from piano or organ, and his ears are delighted with sounds that were 
never heard in life. The tables are strewn with books and papers, telling 
of the doings of the outer world. Letters come from hundreds of miles 
away, yet have occupied only a few hours in coming. A relative enters, 



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who, twenty-four hours before, had left a point so remote that at the 
beginning of the century, to reach it would be the event of a life-time. A 
telegram is received, and the ghostly visitor will not credit the time and 
distance involved, and when the tinkle of the telephone bell calls him 
to the receiver and he hears distinctly the voice that must be miles away, 
his wonderment reaches its climax and he retreats to the quiet and 
seclusion of his grave. 

Our ancestors were eminently sober and God-fearing men. They early 
organized their churches, though they were first identified with the Pres- 
byterian Church of Huron. In 1825 the Rose Presbyterian Church was 
organized, and its first settled pastor was the Rev. Jonathan Hovey. 
Over it have ministered men not unknown to fame ; among others that 
William Clark, known to the old inhabitant as "Priest" Clark, who 
could think out his sermons "at the tail of his plough." His son. Colonel 
Emmons Clark, has just resigned his twenty-five years" command of the 
famous New York Seventh Eegiment. Daniel Waldo was here two years, 
from 1837, a man who survived his one hundredth year. The Baptist or- 
ganization has long served its day and generation, a type, in its inflexible 
principles and purposes, of that rock on which it is founded. Its pastors 
have been men popularly identified with all that conduced to the good of 
the town. The Methodists owed their planting to that horseback ride in 
1812 of Daniel Eoe, from his home, near Wolcott, to the session of the 
Genesee Conference in Lyons, and, although the session was over, he 
prevailed upon Bishops Asbury and McKendree to send a supply to this, 
section. These roving Methodist bishops have left us very pleasant 
impressions of our country. In his journal, dated Thursday, July 2d, 
1807, Asbury says: "This is a great land for wheat, rye and grass ; and 
the lakes, with their navigation of vessels and boats and moving scenes, 
make the prospects beautiful." Meeting in barns, homes and school- 
houses till 1824, the society in Eose was formed and has continued stead- 
fast to date. Perhaps no one in this gathering is more closely connected 
with all these bodies than myself. My great grand- parents, Aaron 
Shepard and wife, were constituent members of the Presbyterian Church, 
and Mr. S. was its first deacon. By its pastors the funei-als of my ances- 
tors were conducted. One of the first deacons of the Baptist Church was 
George Seelye, my grandfather, and for more than fifty years he went in 
and out among you. In the pews of the building every Sunday were 
gathered more immediate relatives than often falls to the lot of one mortal. 
By the Methodist Church my paternal grandfather was long licensed as an 
exhorter and local preacher, and from it my own father, who to-day sits 
beside me, went forth to his long ministry. As a member and as a work- 
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sermon was preached, and now, in our cemetery near, be awaits the 
resurrection. Beyond that range of hills, to the eastward, 

"Under the sod and the dew, 
Waiting the Judgment day," 

Deacons Shepard and Seelye, with "Father" Eoe, were laid by gentle 
hands, to sleep the last long sleep with their kindred till God shall bid 
them rise. 

Our forefathers were foremost in all that pertained to the good of mankind. 
As early as 1829, a temperance society was organized, which included 
nearly all the citizens of repute in the town, and they subscribed to this 
pledge: "We, the undersigned, do agree to abstain wholly from the use 
of ardent spirits, except for medical purposes ; not to furnish them as a 
part of hospitable entertainment, nor to laborers in our employ ; in no 
case to give or vend them either by large or small measure, so as know- 
ingly to countenance the improper use of them, etc." Who can tell how 
much this society may have prompted the sober record of Rose for the 
intervening sixty years! Its first president was that sterling settler from 
Connecticut, long known to us as Deacon Elizur Flint. Of the first board 
of managers only Stephen Collins survives, but among his associates were 
Dr. Peter Valentine and Samuel Lyman, of course. 

These fathers of ours early became convinced of the total depravity of 
slavery, and abolition was long a popular doctrine. That barn of Samuel 
Lyman, the first framed structure raised in town without the use of liquor, 
became the fit harboring place of the escaped bondman, and by Lyman and 
his neighbors he was helped on to Canada. Such principles constantly 
instilled into the minds of the youth of this town, made it a good recruit- 
ing place when the war of the Rebellion broke out. The farmers' boys 
were among the first to put on the blue and to wear it till death came or 
the Rebellion was ended. Were there in our village a soldier's monu- 
ment (how devoutly I hope the day may come when it may be a reality), 
and upon it were to be inscribed the names of the battles participated in 
by those who called Rose their home, the list would include almost every 
one during the War— from that terrible defeat at Bull Run, through the 
Peninsular Campaign, Fredricksburg, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, the 
Valley, the Gulf, to Appomattox itself; in every one of these, Rose boys 
were present, and it in lasting granite we could tell the story to our chil- 
dren, what a lesson it would be! 

My friends, the Fourth of July, ever sacred, ever memorable, never has 
a more fitting observance than when, as to-day, " Auld Lang Syne" is 
renewed. While pealing bell and roaring cannon recall the days when 
battles raged, let us rather think of those patriots who, with resolute in- 
tent, pledged to each other their lives, their fortunes and their sacred 



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honor that liberty shoiald ever be maintained on this continent; and as they 
were faithful to their promises, so let us, of a later day, pledge anew our 
fealty to all for which the fathers suffered, and, like them, make our lives 
well rounded and useful. 

However many are here to-day, there are places we would like to see 
filled. How would it gladden onr hearts if, from his resting place. Deacon 
Flint could look upon us. Simeon Barrett, so lately departed, would shed 
lustre on this hour. Thaddeus Collins would, as of old, rub his hands 
together and say : "I feel that it is good to be here," and, Mr. President, 
what would we not give could your honored father, Harvey Closs, be a 
part of our exercises in person, as he is in memory? Can you not fancy 
the merriment that would follow were the cheery voice of Dudley Wade 
to resound in our midst? What an outburst would ensue should Eron 
Thomas arise to address you, or Dr. Dickson come among us! We would 
willingly be ailing if, from his tomb, we could draw our first physician, 
Peter Valentine, whose son has so long and so honorably served his 
town. Chauncey Bishop, Jonathan Briggs, Henry Graham, John Gillett, 
the Lovejoys, Chaddocks, Lees, Merricks, Kelloggs, Smiths, Hendersons, 
Seelyes, Munsells, Lambs, Jefferses, Eoes, Aldriches, Mitchells, Stewarts, 
Vandercooks, Griswolds, Deadys, Covells, Towns, Collinses, Vanderoefs, 
Colborns, Dickinsons, Hickoks, Shermans, Osgoods, Phillipses, Fullers, 
Chattersons, Ellinwoods, Oakses, Osbornes, Aliens, McKoons, Andruses, 
Benjamins, Catchpoles and Finche.s — all these and the many more who 
have made the town what it is, would we gladly welcome here to-day. 
And though we may not see them face to face, yet may our spirits join 
with theirs iu devotion to this home of ours, pledging ourselves to the 
maintenance of its fair name and our undying love for the town of Rose 
and for the county which is now in its second century ; and when fifty or 
a hundred years hence our descendants celebrate, may they, as truthfully 
as we to-day, repeat these words : 

"Ye hills of Wayne! ye hills of Wayne! 
Ye woods, ye vales, ye fields of gi-ain ! 
Ye scented morns, ye blue-eyed noons! 
Ye ever unforgotten moons! 
No matter where my latest breath 
Shall freeze beneath the kiss of death- 
May some one bear me back again 
To sleep among the hills of Wayne! " 



THE ROSE M. E. CHURCH-1 824-1 889. 

Read at Its Ee-Opening, August 27th, 1889. 

by alfred s. roe. 

" Nor heeds the sceptic's puuy hands, 

While near her school the church-spire stands." 

— Whittier. 

The teiTitory now covered by the Ro.se Church was included within the 
bounds of the Philadelphia Conference from its organization till 1810, when 
the Genesee Conference was formed, with the exception of the single year, 
1808, when it formed a part of the New York Conference. From July 
20th, 1810, to 1829, it continued as Genesee territory. Then came eight 
years of connection with the Oneida Conference, or till 1836, when the 
Black River Conference was organized, and as a i^art of it, we find ourselves 
till 1869, when the Central N. Y. Conference was begun. Again, in 1873, 
when the new adjustment came. Rose fell under the former or latest name 
and so continues to date. 

Were we to mention the districts upon which our vicinity has been 
located, they would be in Albany, till 1803 ; then Genesee till 1808, when 
it was Cayuga one year ; from 1809 to 1811, inclusive, the Susquehanna; 
from 1813 to 1814 it was once more the Genesee, and then, viz., in 181-1:, it 
became the Chenango, and so remained till 1820, when it passed into the 
Black River limits. Again, in 1825, it is the Chenango, but in 1828 it 
returns to the Black River, and there remains till 1833, when it forms a 
part of the newly constructed Oswego district. There is no further change 
till the new conference lines, in 1869, threw it into the Auburn bounds, 
and there it is to-day. 

As to circuit names, the very first, in the least looking this way, were 
Herkimer, Otsego and Seneca, which appeared toward the end of the last 
century. Oneida and Cayuga are found in 1799. In 1803 appears 
Ontario, and in 1806 we have the very neighborly name of Lyons. The 
moving into that town of Methodists from Maryland, gave the denomina- 
tion an early start there. Sodus is the next name in which we are inter- 
ested, and this is in 1813. In 1817 a division occurs, and we form a part 
of Cato, and so continue till 1821, when we take the significant title, 



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Victory. O'er all victorious we remain till 18.32, when we assume the 
Eose, and thus crowned, remain to this year of grace, 1889. 

We can only conjecture as to who of the early itinerants passed this way. 
In 1793 the Eev. Thomas Ware was appointed to the Albany district, and 
he states that his ride included Herkimer county, which then extended to 
the western line of this town. Grand old Revolutionary soldier that he 
was, we would like to think that our soil had borne the impress of his feet, 
and that the forests once standing here had resounded with his voice as, 
in passing through, he chanted the praises of God, a frequent diversion of 
these almost homeless wanderers. Freeborn Garrettson was one of the 
earliest appointed ministers to the circuits, which may have included our 
bounds, but during all these years we have no knowledge of our present 
town limits holding any i^ermanent settlers. There was, however, a semi- 
nomadic population that was here today and there to-morrow, forerunners 
of that stable class, which, following, cleared up the land and built for 
themselves comfortable homes. But there was no habitation too primitive 
for our Methodist pioneer, and I love to believe that at the very earliest 
date he sought out the settlers here. In 1807 Bishop Asbury records his 
pleasant impression of Lyons, where he was the guest of his Maryland 
friends, the Dorseys, and in Esquire Dorsey's barn, in 1810, the first 
session of the Genesee Conference was held. 

From notes contributed to a Wayne county paper by G. S. Jewell, now 
of Fleming, N. Y., I learn that regular Methodist ministrations in our 
vicinity were indebted to Daniel Eoe, of what now constitutes the north- 
west corner of Butler. A native of Brookhaven, Long Island, he had 
begun his married life in Connecticut, where his Methodist zeal was appar- 
ent, for I find that he is accounted the founder of our church iu the town 
of Derby of that good old land of steady habits. Revolutionary troubles 
had compelled his father's family to take up their abode across the Sound, 
and it is more than likely that his start in Methodism was had through the 
preaching of Jesse Lee, who first penetrated the chosen field of the 
"Standing Order." At any rate, when, in 1812, he became a central N. 
T. pioneer, his latch string was always out to anybody who could bring 
tidings of great joy. His learning of the session of the Genesee Conference 
at Lyons, July 29th, 1812, was somewhat late, but he hastened away upon 
horseback to that place and secured the appointment of a preacher who 
would restrict his wanderings to a range embracing what is now several 
counties. His own house was the chosen scence of preaching services at 
times, while the school-house near was often called into use. On such con- 
siderable occasions as quarterly meetings, no less commodious structure 
than his recently constructed framed barn would suffice. That building is 
still standing. The story is told that a certain minister, noted in the 
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coming of the Methodists, said: "Well, let them come; we'll soon root 
them out." To this, Daniel Eoe responded : " If he is a mind to be a hog 
and root, why, let him root." From results, one may conclude that the 
rooting scarcely more than loosened the soil, thereby rendering our growth 
all the more vigorous. The preachers who rode this great circuit, Zenas 
Jones, Ebenezer Doolittle, John Rogers, Joseph McCreary and Joshua Beebe, 
have their names written not only in our record of Methodism, but we trust 
in the Lamb's Book of Life. Theirs were names long revered in a section 
of country covering nearly the whole extent of the Middle States. Their 
purses did not wax plethoric at the expense of their people, for we find 
that their average support was $84.65 per year. In 1816 Joseph McCreary 
received items as follows: Five and one-half bushels of wheat, $1.75; 
thirteen pounds of pork, 12.^ cents ; sugar and lard, 12J cents ; ten pounds 
of venison ham, 0.4 ; six pounds of flax. If, however, the preacher 
fared poorly, so did his people. Money was a raie article, scarcely to be 
had at all. The first local preachers were Samuel Bentley, John Seymour, 
Jacob Snyder and Joshua Beebe, who afterward entered the traveling con- 
nection. Daniel Eoe, Thomas Armstrong and Stephen Sprague were the 
first class leaders. 

Under the name of Cato circuit, matters progressed till 1821, when 
Victory began, and during its eleven years of existence, societies were or- 
ganized as follows : Conquest, October 19th, 1822 ; Hannibal, March 2.3d, 
1825 ; Butler, April 8th, 1826 ; Rose, September 21st, 1827 ; Clyde, Janu- 
ary 22d, 1831. The society at Daniel Roe's in 1812 finally became the 
foundation of the Wolcott Church. The foregoing dates refer to the 
holding of the first quarterly meetings. Classes, as we shall find, were 
organized much earlier. 

So much for the nebulous portion of our church history. Now follows 
a period when the sun glimmers through the clouds and we can obtain 
some definite knowledge. Probably the first permanent Methodist within 
the confines of our present town was Alfred Lee, the forerunner of the 
other brothers — Lyman, Joel and John — who came down to us from the Green 
Mountain State. He came early in the century, and we may suppose that 
his Methodist start was had up among the rugged scenes of Vermont, 
through the labors of Garrettson, Hull and others. In 1818 or 1819 
Caleb Mills, a local preacher and a carpenter Ity trade, used to conduct 
prayer meetings in the log school-house, which stood on or about the site 
of what was so long the post office. There are those who still retain a 
recollection of his wide-brimmed white hat and (juaint attire ; for in those 
days dress and walk as well as conversation proclaimed the IMethodist. 
In 1824 Charles Thomas and family moved into the town from Pompey, 
Onondaga county. He and his active, vigorous wife were trophies of the 
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their employ, Zemira Slaughter, who was born in Willington, Conn, Sept. 
11th, 1802. Though young when she came hither, she had been six years 
a member of a class, having been converted under the preaching of Daniel 
Barnes, who was a presiding elder in these parts in 1823-1. She was bap- 
tized by Abner Chase, a man long held in reverence by those who knew 
him. With this reijnforcement our founders proceeded to organize a class, 
and in 1821 this very important step was taken. The names were Charles 
Thomas and Polly, his wife, Alfred Lee, William Watkins, Abigail 
Bunce and Zemira Slaughter. Mr. Lee was the first leader, and he has 
been described to be as talkative, energetic and a great worker in every 
way. Charles Thomas was an active business man, but it may not dis- 
parage him in the least to state that ' * Sister ' ' Thomas was more often 
lefen-ed to in matters spiritual than her husband. She was short of 
stature, somewhat stout, very early married, the mother of a numerous 
family, but the very embodiment of zeal and energy in all respects. She 
frequently led the class herself, and her home was the chosen abode of the 
itinerent in passing. William Watkins, of Welsh birth, came with the 
Thomases, and was a tanner by trade. Abigail Bunce was the most noted 
teacher the old town of Wolcott ever knew. Renowned in her schools, she 
was equally worthy of recollection in the church. Of a tall, commanding 
stature, she was sure of a hearing whenever she arose. Of all these be- 
ginners, only Zemira (Slaughter) Bishop remains this side of eternity. 
As the wife of Joel Bishop, who was of Baptist rearing, she went with him 
to his church home, though she accounted herself a Methodist for fully 
eighteen years. Though her name may not appear on our books to-day, 
we are none the less sure that she can read her title clear, and we rejoice 
that bodily she can be with us after all these many years of pilgrimage, 
and on this occasion with us be glad at the sight of what God hath 
wrought. From the diminntive log school-house to this church, truly the 
step is a long one. Charles Thomas died in 1830, comparatively young. 
His wife, as Polly Clark, died in 1863. "Aunt Xabby'' Bunce finished 
her journey in September, 1875, at Red Creek, at the age of eighty-two. 
William Watkins, the father of Mrs. Lawson Munsell of the Wolcott 
Church, died in Portland, Oregon, November 3d, 1882, having left Rose 
about 1827. Alfred Lee joined the procession westward to Ohio, and 
there died May 26th, 1868, aged eighty-five years. 

The first meetings of these people were held in the log building, erected 
by the first settlers for school purposes ; but even this was sometimes 
closed to them, whether on account of their noisy ways or through accident, 
I cannot state. However, if the door was locked, they were in no way 
cast down, for they would have their meetings somewhere, and have been 
known to adjourn to logs, lying at right angles to each other, back of the 
school-house, and upon such improvised seats to conduct their religious 



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classes. They had not long to wait for increasing numbers, since a revival 
speedily followed, and before the fall of snow their class numbered thirty. 
Early in the twenties, extreme measures in the collection of church dues 
among the Presbyterians of the Port Bay, now Huron, Church caused 
many withdrawals, and the consequent increase of the Methodist Society. 
Owing to a misapprehension of the terms of their subscription, many had 
refused to pay, and hence had been sued. Naturally they felt aggrieved. 
In their first summer Ellis EUinwood and wife, who came up from 
Oneida county, joined them and remained steadfast to the end of their 
long and useful lives. Till 1832 there is not a written word to chronicle 
the work of this small baud of Chistians, yet by their fruits we may con- 
clude that they delved well in their Master's vineyard. The first quarterly 
meeting, in 1827, was held in Charles Thomas' barn, then standing where 
now is the store of George A. Collier. As George Gary was then presiding 
elder, we may suppose that he was present. Mrs. Bishop retains a 
pleasant memory of some of the early pastors, having vividly in mind 
Eevs. Jones and Doolittle, and can yet tell of the sermon preached by 
Charles Giles at quarterly meeting, proclaiming it both eloquent and good. 
I should state that her recollection of these men is coupled rather with the 
Pompey circuit than with that of Rose. 

Later, when the Collinses had become connected with the church, meet- 
ings were held, at times, in the barn of Thaddeus Collins, 1st, and Alpheus, 
his son, standing somewhere near the residence of Mrs. Harvey Closs. 
The quarterly occasions were made much of and large congregations 
assembled, sometimes coming from great distances. Our venerable 
brother, Stephen Collins, has told me of their going to Daniel Roe's, in 
Butler, and even to Victory, saying: "I have made more acquaintances 
at one of these meetings than I made during an eight years' residence in 
Lyons." Our founders were eminently a social people. I would that our 
later representatives might emulate them. 

We have only the barest glimpses of the ministers who passed through 
in these early days. Brother Stephen Collins, though eighty-seven years 
of age, was not of our body in his youth. His parents went to the Port 
Bay Presbyterian Church, while he first heard Baptist doctrine as 
expounded by Elder Smith, but later he cast in his lot with us, and here 
abides to-day. He says that regular preaching was had at Stewart's 
corners earlier than in the Valley. He recalls Joshua Beebe, 1818, 
Palmer Roberts, 1819 and 1820, while Wm. W. Rundell, 1821, used to 
put up at his father's house. Presiding Elder Renaldo M. Evarts, 1820 
and 1822, lingers also in memory's gallery, while Enoch Barnes was to 
him like a brother. Seth Youngs and J. M. Brooks, 1823, are remembered 
as active, go-ahead men, the latter considerably the younger. James P. 
Aylsworth was the pastor in charge of Sodus circuit in 1821, and once, 



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when asked his age, he ran his fingers through his hair, thus giving it a 
stand-up condition, and replied: "Now guess." He it was who told of 
his experience in the food line, when making his rounds. His appetite 
was equal to anything that was set before him, save in one instance, when 
he saw the good wife prepare the johnny-cake and set it to bake in the 
out-of-doors fire. That was well enough, but when he beheld the interest 
and proximity of a number of goslings, whose investigations considerably 
affected the cake, he concluded to forego eating for one day, though the 
woman and her family seemed in no way disturbed by the admixture. 
William McKoon was four times a laborer on the Victory and Rose 
circuits. Of him. Brother Collins says: " He did as much good as any 
man the circuit ever had. Ifo man in these parts could equal him as a 
preacher of funeral sermons." He spoke the final words over the first 
Thaddeus Collins and Esther, his wife. Samuel Bebins, in 1831, was the 
last rider of the Victory circuit, leaving it with a membership of 1,200 
people. He is remembered as wearing a red bandanna on his bald head, 
and as being a man of a lively nature. It was a six weeks' circuit, or one 
requiring that time to make the complete round ; so one day, in leaving 
his Butler charge, he said: "Brethren, I don't like this six weeks' 
business. The devil gets around before I do." Perhaps he was active in 
securing the change, for in 1832 there was a subdivision, and Rose 
circuit appeared with a membership of 531. The first ministers over the 
new circuit were Elijah Barnes and John Thomas. The latter was an 
Englishman, and in a country where the latch string was always out, his 
conventional ways seemed very strange. Says one: "Why, he would 
knock at a door all day, or till some one opened it for him, never heeding 
the old-fashioned 'come in,' and I don't know as he would ever get off 
his horse unless bidden to do so." 

In 1832 our people were still worshiping in school-houses, though the 
Valley log building had given place to a framed structure. With the new 
circuit, a movement was made for the building of an edifice, and hereafter 
are copied verbatim the first written records of our Rose organization : 

"At a meeting of the inhabitants of the town of Rose, held in the school- 
house in Rose Valley on Monday, the 27th day of August, 1832, pursuant 
to publick notice, for the purpose of adopting measures for building a 
chapel for the use of the Methodist Episcoi>al Church in Rose. 

"1st. Resolved, That Elijah Barnes be chosen Chairman, and Eron 
K. Thomas act as Secretary. 

" 2d. Resolved, That the name of this Society be ' The First Methodist 
Episcopal Society ' in the town of Rose. 

"3d. Resolved, That there be nine trustees, and Jacob Miller, Abel 
Lyon, Chester EUinwood, Samuel E. Ellinwood, Geo. W. Mirick, Robert 
Andrews, Thaddeus Collins, Isaac Lamb and Moses F. Collins be said 
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"4th. Eesolved, That Eron N. Thomas be the clerk of said Society." 
Here we have somethiug definite, and, as corner-stones of our structure, 
we find certain representative names. Of the man whose name appears as 
clerk, I may state that he retained the office till his death in 1874. 
" Sister" Polly Thomas was well represented during these more than forty 
years by her capable, determined son. 

September Sth, 1832, at an adjourned meeting. Brothers Miller, Chester 
and Ellis Ellinwood, Mirick and Andrews were appointed a committee to 
agree on a site for a church and to circulate a subscription. The 19th of 
October, it was resolved that the site of said house be on the hill, north of 
Mr. Bassett's shop. It was further resolved that Thaddeus Collins, Joel 
N. Lee and Chester Ellinwood be a committee to build said house, and 
further, that it be 32 x 45 feet. The form of organization already given 
was certified to before Judge Arne, and September 13, 1833, was recorded 
in the clerk's office in Lyons. 

In 1836, February 26th, there was a reorganization of the church, and 
the number of the trustees was reduced to three, who were Ellis Ellinwood, 
Joel N. Lee and Geo. W. Mirick. We may conclude that proper measures 
were at once taken to build the church, whose site, given by Thaddeus 
and Chauncey Collins, was where the house of Mrs. Augusta Allen now 
stands, at the corner of the street leading to Wayne Centre. Owing to 
the abundance of cobble stones in the vicinity, I suppose it was thought 
the builders could use them cheaply and, at the same time, have a sub- 
stantial edifice. John Hannahs was the carpenter, and, as usual, "Sister " 
Thomas was a mighty power in the progress of affairs. Once, when the 
builder had fallen short of material and had gathered up his tools and 
departed, he was surprised at hearing a great clatter in his rear, and, 
turning, saw a woman standing up in her wagon and shouting to him to 
stop. It was Mrs. Thomas, who, fearful thatjif the carpenter went away 
it would not be easy to get him back, had followed to tell him that she 
had sent her men into the woods for timber, and that he might return and 
go to work. The masonry was done by John Layton. The most liberal 
contributor to the "chapel" was Polly Clark— our "Sister" Thomas— 
who gave $100 ; Thaddeus Collins gave $65, and other snms were given, 
ranging down to those of one figure only. Of the fifty-five givers recorded, 
only three are yet on this side of the grave, viz., Brother Stephen Collins, 
a brother of Thaddeus; Chauncey B., the youngest of the family, now 
living in Clyde, and Ira Mirick, of Lyons. In this way, $743.15 was 
subscribed, but, as the building cost over $1,200, there was quite a debt 
to begin with, in this way being too much in keeping with custom, the 
country over. The building was roofed in and seated temporarily before 
it was dedicated. In fact, my great-aunt, Mrs. Mary Wade, tells me that 
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in 1835, and that the seats were boards laid upon the end of logs of wood 
sawed off at the proper length. There is extant a contract between Geo. 
"W. Wainwright and the trustees to complete, i. e., finish the church, 
bearing date of December 1st, 1835, and the work was to be completed on 
or before the 1st day of May following. July 13th, 1836, he acknowledges 
receipt of payment in full, viz., $375, on which day the pews, forty-eight 
in number, were advertised to be sold. Ensign Ellinwood, with his 
sisters, Charlotte and Lemira, were singers at the dedication. One of the 
selections sung was, "How Lovely are Thy Dwellings." This church 
long maintained the exceedingly quaint custom of separating families, the 
males sitting on one side and the feminine portion demurely occupying 
the other part of the room. When completed the "chapel" was a com- 
fortable one, the second church edifice in town ; the Presbyterians being a 
short time ahead. The pulpit was an old-fashioned, high-perched, box- 
like affair, between the two main entrance doors on the east .end. There 
were galleries on the other three sides. 

This building was for nearly twenty-five years the temple whither 
resorted the Methodist tribes at least one day in the week. Built, however, 
of cobble stones, and not, perhaps, supported as dwelling-houses are, it 
was deemed insecure, and people grew afraid of it. There was one 
unsuccessful attempt to burn it, but in 1859 it was again fired, this time 
to its destruction, and the edifice which had occasioned so many prayers, 
so much anxiety and work, was only a smouldering heaj) of stones. In 
those days the parsonage was just a little west of the church ; now some- 
what changed, it is the home of the Presbyterian ministers. Between it 
and the church was a row of horse sheds. It is a fitting commentary on 
the fears of some as to the security of the walls, that when the fire was 
over and the woodwork burned, it took the united work of many to pull 
and push down the pile of stones so long deemed dangerous. Truly, the 
temple was well built, a strong tower to those who feared Him. 

The true story of this quarter of a century it would take too much time 
to tell. There were the regular warfare against sin, the revivals where 
many were gathered into the fold, the marriages and the deaths, when the 
aged and the young were borne hence to their final resting places. The 
ministers who followed each other in these years were Burroughs Holmes, 
who became a prominent figure in his conference ; Joseph Cross, who, 
Brother Stephen Collins says, was the first minister he ever knew to wear 
whiskers, and they were kept well back under the chin and on the throat. 
Another has described him as a regular jumping-jack in the pulpit. His 
career was an eventful one — going south, and to the Methodist Ejiiscopal 
Church, South, he became the chaplain of the famous Black Horse Cavalry, 
and after the War returned to become a minister in the Episcopal Church. 
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Confederate gray. In his Rose days, he was quite young, and before the 
War was done went to Clyde. Humility was then one of his strong points. 
How strange it seems to us that one's garb, or way of wearing hair or 
whiskers, should be thought worthy of special attention. When my father 
first ventured to let his beard grow, his father said : " Wear a very modest 
beard, my son, a very modest one." On his own face no one ever saw 
more than the stubble of a week's growth. Anson Tuller was a conspicuous 
figure, and, with his colleague, in 1837 and 1838, conducted one of the 
most extensive revivals in the history of the church. Tuller lived a long 
life of usefulness ; Kilpatrick, who was a man of great eloquence and 
effectiveness, located in 1846, and went west. From our Rose Church 
Moses Lyon went out to his mission, terminating last spring. He was a 
son of Abel Lyon, one of the first trustees. He was noted throughout this 
section as a sweet singer in Israel. John W. Armstrong came down from 
Eed Creek, and by our quarterly conference was recommended to the 
traveling connection. Anson Tuller was the presiding elder, and after the 
young man, who was a teacher in the Red Creek Academy, had withdrawn, 
he said : " That man has a long head, and it appears to be well filled," a 
statement well borne out in subsequent years. Austin M. Roe was sent 
hence, owing much, perhaps, to the promptings of William Peck, a brother 
of the subsequent bishop. He, doubtless, is well remembered to this day 
for his tobacco pipe and his horse, Selim. 

The membership was a substantial one, and a glance at the names of 
those who helped build the first church .shows many of the best persons in 
the town. Time would not suffice to sound the praises of all these excellent 
people. That first Daniel Roe, who lived to be nearly ninety years of age, 
I can remember as he rode about on his cream-colored horse, keeping to 
his saddle almost as long as he lived. In his garb and appearance he 
made a picture in my memory not unlike that of John Wesley. His 
youngest brother, Austin, my grandfather, came to Rose in time to help 
build the stone church. A Long Islander, he was a convert at those 
meetings conducted early in the century by Ezekiel Cooper and William 
Phcebus. Thaddeus Collins, I have heard my father say, used to yoke up 
his oxen and take the whole neighborhood to Stewart's corners to attend 
the meetings in the winter of 1833-4. There could be nothing good in 
progress in which he did not have a part. But in those days our meetings 
were not conducted without opposition. To many the fervor and zeal of 
the Methodists were a stumbling block. My great-grandmother said to 
my mother : " No, Polly ! you can't go to those meetings. They'll scare 
you to death." However, she seemed to have survived more than forty 
years of living as the wife of a Methodist minister, tolerably unscared. 

Again, as to ministers, were Jairus McKoon living, I wonder if he would 
be amused as he was, years ago. when Joseph Byron told of the " he-she 



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bears." Sitting on the writing falls of the school-house, which was long 
the home of Joseph Tipple, he almost lost his centre of gravity over the 
sad lapsus of the minister. William Mason located to become the steward 
of Bed Creek Seminary, a position which he long honored. He used to 
tell this story of himself, laughing as heartily as any one at the Joke. In 
settling accounts once on leaving a charge, a sixpence too much had been 
paid him. "Well," said he, " I'll come along and preach you a sermon 
for that some day." " Oh, no," said the careful steward, " we've had 
enough of six-penny sermons." Nearly all, however, preachers and people, 
have passed over. As we recall those times, we cannot help wishing that 
once more on this side the River, we might see the Lees, Thomases, Hoff- 
mans, Barretts, Griswolds, Wyckoffs, Mitchells, Winchells, Toleses, 
Vandercooks, Kelloggs, Lymans, Collinses, Miricks, Ellinwoods, Aliens, 
Holbrooks, Roes, Lyons, Hunns (thei-e were no Vandals) and all those 
who did valiant battle during all these primordial years. It cannot be ; 
but though they cannot come to us, we may go to them. 

From the burning of the old " chapel " to the present, may properly be 
termed a new era in the history of our society. Successive divisions and 
cuttings off had made the numbers of the organization vary considerably. 
Then, too, the spirit of migration had its weight in the membership, but 
through all this the church and the neighborhood kept up their proverbial 
reputation for regular attendance at meeting. Said William Haney, who 
came to us in the sixties from Boonville, N. Y. : " Why, this disposition 
to go to church astonishes me. When I get up on a hill-top and look 
forward or back on a Sunday morn, the road has the appearance of a Icftig 
procession. I verily believe that everybody, religious and irreligious, 
goes to meeting." The spirit imparted by our long line of church-going 
New England ancestry will not die in a generation, and our hope is that 
the succeeding generations will keep up the practice and spirit. 

However, the old house, with its memories of revivals, the preaching 
and singing for nearly twenty-five years, was a thing of the past. What 
should be done next I Measures were taken at once to rebuild — but 
where ? Shall it be on the old site, or will a new one be selected f Many 
said the hill was too cold and breezy, and that there was not room in its 
vicinity for horse sheds, while the newly opened street leading eastward 
from Eron Thomas' house, would be just the place. Really, the new street 
was opened for the church. Arguments, pro and con, were had, but 
finally the new streeters prevailed, and the present structure was the 
result. 

No sooner were the Methodists without a home than the Presbyterians 
kindly opened their doors, and, till the basement was finished, more than 
a year later, these people worshiped together, apparently to the edification 
and profit of all. In fact. Deacon Flint said he didn't care to hear any 



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better preaching than that given them by Mr. Salisbury. The debates and 
conferences of the fall of 1859 and following winter resulted in the breaking 
of ground in the following spring— perhaps in May— and the framing was 
started in July. Rev. Mr. Brown, of the Clyde Methodist Episcopal 
Church, was noted for his church building proclivities, and he submitted a 
plan to our brethren, which was, in the main, adopted ; but Brother Peter 
Harmon, the builder, was not entirely satisfied. So, broaching the matter 
to the trustees, they unanimously approved his suggestions— changes 
which make this edifice practically a home affair, in that the architect and 
builder was a member of the church. 

In December of 1860, the basement was completed and Brother Salisbury 
came from Wolcott to preach the first sermon in it. The room above 
the audience room was inclosed and floored and afforded a good place for 
banquets during the stirring war period, a time when the basement or 
lecture-room frequently resounded with patriotic appeals. So time passed 
along. The original cost estimated at $4,000 had swollen to near $7,000. 
Brothers Wells and Skeel had had their pastorate in the basement, but 
the coming of Brother Charles Baldwin started the era of finishing, and the 
work was pushed along to completion. The bell was in place, and on 
March 3d, 1864, the long houseless congregation assembled to dedicate 
their edifice. Peter Harmon, the builder, at the suggestion of Elder 
Dunning, then in charge of the Oswego district, got together an excellent 
choir, in which was prominent Chester Ellinwood, whose elder brother. 
Ensign, had led the singing when the old house was set apart. Seated 
here by the pulpit was " Father" Austin Roe, in a little more than a month 
to be gathered to his rest, the oldest man in the membership of the church. 
The sermon was preached by Dr. J. M. Reid, then president of Genesee 
College, while in the evening Rev. Samuel Clark, of Weedsport, officiated. 
Rev. B. I. Ives, the noted debt raiser, was also here, and his honeyed 
utterances succeeded in extracting something more than $2,000 from the 
audience to raise the debt. 

The old church was burned Monday night, April 18th, 1859, during the 
pastorate of Geo. H. Salisbury, and the new one, building through several 
years, was dedicated March 3d, 1864, while Charles Baldwin was minister. 
The very day of the burning of the Rose Church, the corner-stone of the 
new one in Clyde was laid, a coincidence worth noting. From that date to 
the present there have been very few changes. It and the parsonage 
adjacent have been convenient, comfortable places for service and the 
pastor's abode. To the majority of the membership to-day, it is the only 
building recalled. In this room, could a phonographic record have been 
made and to-day we were to set the cylinder back, there would come to us 
the tones of Dr. Reid in the opening address, and then would be heard the 
mild words of the pastor, Charles Baldwin, who, when he felt life sinking 
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apace, made his home among us, and finally, went from our church militant 
to that triumphant, his body lying with many of his church associates in 
the cemetery near. I^o one would mistake the voice of S. B. Crosier, who 
was prominent in many things in our village. Of him it is told that W. 
H. (better known as " Bill ") Saunders, showing to him the appointments 
of his newly fitted up hotel, he pronounced everything excellent if he 
would only keep the "critter " out, referring to that bane of civilization, 
alcohol. As the vibrations continue, there would come the beginning of a 
talk to the Sunday school children ; but the inexorable five minutes' rule 
cut the speaker off completely and he concludes with " I wish I hadn't 
begun." But there were pleasanter affairs to bring back our genial old 
friend, Eoyal Houghton, who gave two sons, Eoss and Oscar, to the min- 
istry. He was Houghton to the end, though his sons are now called 
Howton. 

Many ears will listen more intently when the next preacher's tones are 
heard, and we rejoice that they may be heard to-day. He was the first 
minister to stay the possible three years, from 1868 to 1871, Eev. Phineas 
Wiles. Eevs. Curtis, Edson and Day all arouse trains of familiar 
memories. Could our recording phonograph tell all the good things about 
those whose tones have been preserved here and elsewhere, it would 
render back to us the somewhat hesitating reading of an Old Testament 
chapter, wherein hard, double-jointed names abounded. Noticing the 
obvious amusement of his congregation at some of his efforts, the reader 
coolly remarks: " If any of you think you can do better than I am doing 
with these names, why, just come up here and you may have a chance to 
try." But the active Christian industry of D. D. Davis needs no story to 
recall it. By the way, the fact that the prominent initials precede his 
name does not prevent the important truth that he is the only D. D. ever 
stationed in Eose. Eevs. Hoxie and Beach recall long and successful 
pastorates, and of the latter, I will state that he kept the church record 
better than any I have ever seen. Were he to give lessons in this respect 
to his brother preachers, he would confer a priceless boon upon the future 
mousing chronicler. Brother C. E. Herman's interim of a single year 
brings us to a voice that, improving the possibility to remain beyond the 
old three years' bounds, is now, in its fourth year, able to speak for itself. 
All will know that I refer to him who has so long and so faithfully served 
this people, and whose zeal, in and out of season, has brought about so 
much that to-day gladdens our sight. Under the pastorate of Brother G. 
A. Eeynolds, our church has taken a new lease of life. While the member- 
ship of the parent church remains much as usual — subject to the fluctua- 
tions of removals and lukewarmness — a growing daughter is found in the 
North Eose organization, where thirty-five probationers form an excellent 
foundation. May the enteri)rise increase and prosper. 



ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 339 

While meiitioa has been made of the later pastors, we would not forget 
those who earlier toiled here. There was Harlow Skeel, who was preacher 
in a trying period and who is still a standard bearer in the Northern Xew 
York Conference, and I doubt not that many here remember his family as 
well as himself. Frank and Clarence both were graduated from Wesleyan 
in 1874. The former is now a ijhysician in New York. The latter found 
an early gra^e while following in his father's footsteps. It was during 
Brother Skeel's stay that the Rev. George Bowles, a local deacon, was 
expelled. He was an Englishman of massive frame and persuasive 
eloquence, as all who recall him will testify. In early life he must have 
been "an awkward hand in a row." He had been much abused and pro- 
voked by a neighbor, nameless here. So long as the latter's taunts were 
confined to Brother B. personally, he did nothing, but when the man 
assailed the character of the preacher's family, he said : " You may talk 
about me, but my children never," and pitching in he gave the sinner one 
of the best thrashings ever administered by a representative of the church 
militant to one of Satan's crew. It was, of course, very unchristian, but 
carnal man cannot repress a feeling of pleasure that the militant Methodist 
was also triumphant. In the eyes of the community, he was very much 
of a hero, having given what all considered a fully merited punishment. 
But the church must free itself from such odium, and so expelled, but on 
profession, readmitted, and in a few years reinstated. The example is 
not the best possible, but sometimes fire must be fought with fire. The 
presiding elder was Chas. A. Dunning, and I have wondered whether he 
may not have had a fellow feeling for Mr. Bowles, since of him the story 
is told that, in his earlier lile, he knocked down an impious jackanapes, 
who, in reply to the query as to whether he would not like religion, had 
answered : " Yes, I guess I'll take about three cents' worth." Contrition 
and repentance had accomplished for him the same end gained by our 
erring brother of Rose. M. D. L. B. Wells. Does anyone wonder that 
the bishop once referred to him as Alphabet Wells ? Geo. H. Salisbury. 
What a career of usefulness was cut short when death claimed him ! 
Having much of his father, Nathaniel's, ability he had vastly more tact 
and suavity, yet can anyone believe that, twenty- five years ago, there 
were those in the Rose Church whose righteous souls were vexed because 
he had patent leather tips on his shoes ? William Morse, O. C. Lathrop, 
so recently gone home ; Harris Kingsley, Cyrus Phillips, William Jones — 
all these names will have a familiar sound to some. 

But the past is past. From the insignificant beginning in numbers of 
six Methodists, sixty-five years ago, to the present, there has been a 
practical confirmation of the promise that where two or three are gathered 
together in His name. He will be in the midst of them, and that to liless. 
Through divisions or changes, through dissension within, through consid- 



340 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 

erable secessions, through removal and death, through our discriminating 
Baptist and Presbyterian brothers seeking here fair partners for life's 
journey, — through all these hazards the church has survived, and there 
have been found those who have kept the altar bright, the fires burning. 
If there be Pharisees, so also there are strong, faithful souls, who know 
no such word as fail, whose hand once placed to the plough continues 
firm to the end. Here, then, are the stages : A class in 1824, but no 
abiding city till 1836. Then a comfortable home till destroyed by fire in 
1859. Again shelterless till March, 1864. Then twenty-five years in 
this structure, to-day renewed, beautified, it becomes more fitly than ever 
the place of worship, the abode of the Most High. May God in His 
wisdom sanctify and keep it. 

ACCOUNT OF MONEYS PAID IN BUILDING STONE CHURCH. 

Jacob Miller, $31 ; Abel Lyon, $25.75; Sol. Whitney, $15.50; Matthias 
Van Horn, $11; Moses F. Collins, $13.62; William Griswold, $6; John 
N. Chidester, $5 ; Lorenzo C. Thomas, $25 ; John J. Dickerson, $30 ; 
John Bassett, $20 ; Eron N. Thomas, $27 ; Chester Ellinwood, Joel N. 
Lee, $31.63 ; Samuel E. Ellinwood, $33.63 ; Robert Andrews, $29 ; Geo. 
W. Mirick, $31; Samuel N. Welch, $5; Moses Lyon, $13.38 ; Polly Clark, 
$100 ; Solomon Allen, $8 ; Thaddeus Collins, $65 ; Stephen Collins, $12 ; 
Joel Bishop, Jr., $3.50 ; Merrill Pease, $2 ; Samuel Hunn, $8 ; Samuel 
Jones, $5; A. F. Baird, $5; S. H. Brainard, $10; Enoch Knight, $5 ; 
William Mitchell, $2.26 ; E. D. Sherman, $2 ; Abram Van Tassel, $3 ; 
Orrin Moore, $10 ; Samuel Bucknam, $5 ; Ira Lathrop, $3 ; Uriah Wade, 
$5 ; Joseph Wade, $1 ; Nicholas Stansell, $12 ; James Aldrich, $2.50 ; 
Isaac Lamb, $12 ; Stephen Babcock, $6 ; Charles G. Oaks, $2 ; Orrin 
Morris, $2 ; John Mc Wharf, $2 ; Chauncey B. Collins, $38 ; John W. 
Lee, $2; Wm. McKoon, $1; Willis Roe, $2.50 ; Paul H. Davis, $.50 ; 
Daniel Roe, $2 ; Hiram and Ira Mirick, $5 ; Austin Roe, $10 ; John Q. 
Deady, $5 ; John Springer, $— ; John Ogram, $3.63. Total, $743.40. 

Wm. Lord, $ ; — Benedict, $2.50 ; Peter Valentine, $ ; — 

Twiss, $ ; S. Munsell, $4 ; H. Drury, $3 ; D. Munsell, $3 ; Wm. 

Walmsley, $2 ; Joseph Seelye, $10 ; W. Allen, $ ; Nathan W. 

Thomas, $ — -. 



SLIPS AND OCCUPANTS IN OLD STONE CHURCH. 

No. 1. Robert Andrews. No. 2. Stephen Babcock. No. 3. Solomon 
Allen. No. 4. John Bassett. No. 5. Jester L. Holbrook. No. 6. 
John W. Lee. No. 7. Abel Lyon. No. 9. Charles G. Oaks. No. 10. 
Lorenzo C. Thomas. No. 17. John Ogram. No. 18. Dorman Munsell. 



EOSE NEIGHBOKHOOD SKETCHES. 341 

No. 19. Stephen Collins. No. 20. Erou N. Thomas. No. 21. Samuel 
E. Ellinwood. No. 22. Geo. W. Mirick. No. 23. Thaddeus Collins. 
No. 24. Chester Ellinwood. No. 25. Seth H. Brainard. No. 26. John 
J. Dickson. No. 27. Polly Clark. No. 28. Joel N. Lee. No. 29. 
Chauncey B. Collins. No. 30. Austin Roe. No. 31. M. A. Cornwell. 
No. 38. Solomon Whitney. No. 39. Moses Lyon. No. 40. Polly 
Clark. No. 41. Joel Bishop, Jr. No. 42. John A. Chidester. No. 
43. Thaddeus Collins. No. 44. Stephen Collins. No. 45. Jacob Mil- 
ler. No. 46. Lyman Lee. No. 47. Matthias Van Horn. No. 48. 
Chas. G. Oaks. 

OFFICERS OF THE EOSE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHUECH. 

Stewaeds.— Eron N. Thomas, from 1853 to 1874— Recording Steward, 
twenty-one years ; Ovid Blynn, from 1853 to 1879 and 1885 ; S. Ellis 
Ellinwood, from 1853 to 1867 ; Samuel B. Hoffman, from 1853 to 1869 ; 
Thaddeus Collins, from 1853 to 1861 ; John Vandercook, from 1853 to 
1867 ; Wm. Benjamin, from 1853 to 1864 ; Geo. W. Mirick, from 1857 to 
1865 ; John Harmon, from 1857 to 1861 ; Wm. Osborne, from 1861 to 
1867 and 1871 ; Wm. Haney, from 1861 to 1867 ; G. L. Munsell, from 
1863 to 1871 ; James Armstrong, from 1865 to 1871 ; Henry C. Rice, from 
1867 to 1876 ; Oliver Bush, in 1867 ; Stephen Kellogg, from 1867 to 1879; 
Oscar Weed, 1867 to 1889 ; Wm. H. Vandercook, from 1867 to 18S9 ; E. 
Toles, 1871 and 1872; Philander Mitchell, 1875; Wm. Desmond, from 
1875 to 1881 ; John Crisler, 1875 ; John B. Roe, from 1875 to 1885 ; Clay- 
ton J. Allen, from 1879 to 1881 and 1885 to 1889; D. Finch, 1881 and 
1882 ; P. Soper, from 1881 to 1885 ; Abram Covell, from 1882 to 1889 ; 
Selah Finch, from 1885 to 1889 ; E. Burrell, from 1885 to 1889 ; James 
Armstrong, 1885 ; C. Barrick, 1885; Milo Lyman, 1888 and 1889; Edgar 
Armstrong, 1888 and 1889 ; Daniel Foster, 1888 ; Alonzo Case, 1888 and 
1889 ; J. Morey, 1888 and 1889 ; C. Shaw, 1888 and 1889. 

Teustees.— Jacob Miller, 1832 ; Abel Lyon, 1832 ; Chester Ellinwood, 
1832 ; Samuel E. Ellinwood, from 1832 to 1851 ; George Mirick, from 
1832 to 1850 and 1860 to 1866 ; Robert Andrews, 1832 ; Thaddeus Collins, 
1832 ; Isaac Lamb, 1832 ; INIoses F. Collins, 1832 ; Joel N. Lee, from 1833 
to 1848 ; Samuel B. Hoffman, 184y and from 1860 to 1872 ; Charles S. 
Wright, from 1859 to 1875; John B. Roe, from 1859 to 1873; Eron N. 
Thomas, 1859 to 1874 ; John M. Vandercook, from 1860 to 1870 ; Harvey 
D. Mason, from 1860 to 1865 ; Lucian Dudley, from 1865 to 1874 ; G. L. 
Munsell, from 1870 to 1872 ; Wm. Osborne, from 1875 to 1878 ; Oliver 
Bush, from 1875 to 1888 ; H. Perkins, 1875 ; Peter Harmon, from 1875 to 
1886 ; James Armstrong, from 1875 to 1878 ; Milo Lyman, from 1875 to 



342 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 

1881 and 1888 ; Clayton J. Allen, from 1878 to 1888 ; Wm. H. Griswold^ 
from 1878 to 1885 ; Philander Mitchell, from 1883 to 1888 ; David Finch, 
from 1883 to 1886; J. Crisler, from 1884 to 1886; Wm. Desmond, from 
1884 to 1886 and 1888 ; Edgar Armstrong, from 1884 to 1887 ; Stephen B. 
Kellogg, 1888 ; Abram Covell, 1888 ; Daniel Foster, 1885. 

Class Leaders. — Alfred Lee, from 1824 ; Orrin Lackey, ; 



Joel N. Lee, from 183- to 1880; Samnel B. Hoffman, 1853 and 1854 and 
from 1857 to 1863 ; Thaddeus Collins, from 18.3- to 1854 ; Samnel Hunn, 
from 1853 to 1875 ; Nelson Griswold, 1853 ; Jester L. Holbrook, 1853 and 
1854 ; John B. Eoe, from 1855 to 1885 ; David EUinwood, from 185- to 
1856 ; C. D. Hinman, 184- to 1856 : G. W. Mirick, from 1857 to 1863 ; J. B. 
Barrett, 1857 and 1888 ; C. C. Collins, from 1857 to 1863 ; Henry Young, 
from 1857 to 1863 ; Leonard Mitchell, 1858 ; Orrin Sherman, 1860 ; John 
M. Vandercook, 1861 ; Wm. Osborne, 1862 and from 1872 to 1874 ; G. L. 
Mun.sell, from 1865 to 1872 ; Wm. Haney, 1865 and 1866 ; Philander 
Mitchell, 1865; Abel Lyon, from 1867 to 1872; Milo Lyman, from 1869 
to 1885 and 1889 ; Edgar Armstrong, 1872 and from 1885 to 1889 ; Charles 
C. Eelyea, 1875 ; Ebenezer Toles, from 1875 to 1883 ; Wm. Harmon, from 
1875 to 1885 ; Stephen B. Kellogg, from 1878 to 1885 and 1889 ; J. L. 
Finch, from 1878 to 1884; George Ream, from 1881 to 1884; Selah 
Finch, from 1884 to 1889 ; C. More, from 1885 to 1889 ; J. D. Morey, 
from 1885 to 1889 ; S. H. Lyman, 1885 ; Edward Burrell, 1888 and 1889 ; 
Stanton Waldrnff, 1888. 

OFFICERS SINCE 1889. 

Stewards.— Milo Lyman, 1889-93 ; Stephen B. Kellogg, 18S9-'91 ; 
Clayton J. Allen, 1889-'93 ; William H. Vandercook, 1889-'93 ; Edgar A. 
Armstrong, 1889-'93 ; A. Covell, 1889; Selah Finch, lS89-'93 ; Alonzo 
Case, 1889-'91 ; Edward Bnrrell, 1889-'92 ; John Morey, 18S9-'90 ; Oscar 
Weed, 1S89-'91 ; Daniel Foster, 1890-'93 ; E. Brewster, 1890 ; E. P. 
Soper, 1891-'93 ; M. N. Sours, 1891-'93 ; George Worden, 1891 ; C. E. 
Tague, 1891-'92 ; Eoswell Tracy, 1892-'93 ; E. A. Griswold, 1893 ; David 
Wescott, 1893. 

Trustees.— Edgar A. .\rmstrong, 1889-'93 ; Daniel Foster, 1889-'93 ; 
Milo Lyman, 1889-'92 ; John Crisler, 18S9-'91 ; Clayton J. Allen, lS89-'93 ; 
William Desmond, 1889-'93 ; H. S. Perkins, 1889-'93 ; Alonzo Case, 1889- 
<93 ; Oscar Weed, 1892-'93 ; Edward Burrell, 1892 ; M. N. Sours, 1892 ; 
E. Thomas, 1892 ; William Lyman, 1892-'93 ; William H. Vandercook, 
1893 ; Eoswell Tracy, 1893 ; C. E. Tague, 1893. 



ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 343 

Class Leaders.— Stephen B. Kellogg, 1889-'93 ; Edgar A. Armstrong, 
18S9-'93 ; John Morey, 1889-'90 ; Edward Burrell, lS89-'92 ; E. Thomas, 
1891; George Worden,lS92-'93-, John L. Finch, lS92-'93; S. E. Waldruff , 
1892-'93 ; C. E. Tague, 1892-'93. 

ministers in the victory and rose circuits. 

Wm. Rundell, Levi Brown, 1821. Enoch Barnes, Jos. Williams, 1822. 
Seth Young, J. W. Brooks, 1823. James Aylsworth, Mark W. Johnson, 
1821. James Aylsworth, Wm. Jones, 1825. James B. Roach, James 
Hazen, 1826. Anson Tuller, Benson Smith, 1827. Anson Tnller, Matti- 
son Baker, 1828. C. Northrop, Wm. Johnson, 1829. C. Northrop, Wm. 
McKoon, 1830. Samuel Bebins, Wm. McKoon, 1831. Elijah Barnes, 
John Thomas, 1832-'3. Wm. McKoon, Lewis Bell, 1834. Burroughs 
Holmes, Joseph Cross, 1835. Burroughs Holmes. Joseph Byron, 18.36. 
Anson Tuller, Joseph Kilpatrick, 1837. Anson Tuller, Benj. Rider, 1838. 
Benj. Rider, Wm. McKoon, 1839. Wm. Mason, Josiah Arnold, 1840. 
Isaac Hall, John W. Coope, 1841. Isaac Hall, Isaac Turney, 1842. 
Rowland Soule, J. F. Alden, 1843. Rowland Soule, Moses Lyon, 1844. 
J. M. Park, Moses Lyon, 1845. Geo. G. Hapgood, Joseph Kilpatrick, 
1846. John W. Coope, 1847-'S. Wm. Peck, 1849-'50. Hiram Nicolls 
and supply, 1851. Wm. Jones, 1852. Cyrus Phillips, 1853. Harris 
Kinsley, 1854-'5. O. C. Lathrop, 1856. Wm. Morse, 1857. Geo. H. 
Salisbury, 1858-'9. M. D. L. B. Wells, 1860. Harlow Skeel, 1861-'2. 
Charles Baldwin, 1863- '4. S. B. Crosier, 1865-'6. Royal Houghton, 
1867-'8. Phineas H. Wiles, 1869-'71. Wm. H. Curtis, Philip Martin, 
1872. J. L. Edson, 1873. J. H. Day, 1874-'5. D. D. Davis, 1876-'7. 
E. Hoxie, 1878-'80. C. J. Beach, 1881-'3. C. E. Hermans, 1884. G. 
W. Reynolds, 1885-'90. G. S. Transue, 1890-'93. W. H. Rogers, 1893. 



THE ROSE BAPTIST CHURCH. 

It is not a little strange that a bishopless church should have had its 
origin, and for some years almost its maintenance, in a family of Bishops, 
for had the people of this name settled elsewhere, our Eose Baptists had 
■waited longer for their beginning. It has been stated that the church was 
organized January 3d, 1820. Be this as it may, the first date recorded in 
the church book is March 4, 1820, just in that era of " good feeling" which 
characterized President James Monroe's administration. The fly-leaf of 
this book of records is inscribed thus: "A book of the records of the 
Second Baptist Church in Wolcott." The church, then antedates the town 
of Rose, which was not known till 1826. The sixteen names given later 
were those of people representing various parts of the eastern portion of 
our country, but by far the majority were in some way allied to the Bishop 
family, which came from Montgomery county. Earlier than this, churches 
of this denomination had been formed in Wolcott Village and in Sodus. 
It is reasonable to suppose that these early comers had made regular 
journeys, when roads and weather permitted, to these remote places. In 
fact, the late Deacon George Seelye was wont to state that in his boyhood, 
he and his mother had ridden horseback to Sodus, crossing the floating 
bridge at the Bay on their way. They came to the new settlement in 1815, 
and Mrs. Seelye early connected herself with this church in the wilderness. 
The books of record are in the handwriting of Chauncey Bishop till July 7, 
185.5, when, July 14th, the familiar script of Deacon George Seelye appears, 
and continues till September 3d, 1881. Then Lucien H. Osgood was elected 
clerk, and in his hand the books have been kept to date. From these 
books, whatever data recorded here are taken. Kept with the punctilious 
correctness of a good brother of the old school, the earlier volumes contain 
much that seems strange to our modern eyes and ears. Those founders 
tolerated very little nonsense, and if the member did not walk in the way 
prescribed, his brethren proceeded at once to know the reason why. 

" Voted that Brothers and serve as committee to labour with 

Brother or Sister for disorderly walk," is of frequent recurrence. It 

must not be inferred, however, that this often mention indicates more 
irregularity then than now, but rather that the people then were more 
particular, and that they had, seemingly, more time to look into the ways 
of their neighbors. Nor must the term " disorderly " be taken in its usual 




Town Hall. Free Methodist Church. 

Baptist Church. 
North Rose Church. Presbyterian Church. 



ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 345 

•acceptance to-day, for then, in religious parlance, it meant usually nothing 
worse than failure to attend Baptist meetings or, possibly, a little family 
or neighborhood brawl. Of course, it might mean worse, and it did have 
a significance, in one or two cases, that brought much sorrow to the church. 
However, through evil as well as good report, the church has persevered 
and long has been one of the agencies for good in which our town has 
abounded. 

Probably no denomination is more democratic in its creed and govern- 
ment than the Baptist. Neither diocese, presbytery nor conference confines 
it. While holding to the prime tenets of the church, each body adopts its 
own rule, and herewith is given the "Church Covenant" of our Rose 
Baptists : 

"Having been baptized upon our profession of Faith in Chrif>(, and 
believing it to be our duty to walk in all the ordinances of the Gospel, 
which we cannot be in a situation to do without being united together in 
the order of a Gospel Church ; and that we may with one mind and one 
mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. We do, 
therefore, in siHceriti/ declare the following Covenant to be a summary 
of Christian duties, which we look upon ourselves under the highest 
obligations to embrace, maintain and defend, believing it to be our duty 
to stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of 
the Gospel, and not to countenance any of the vain, unscriptural tenets, 
traditions or customs of men. 

" We are very sensible that our conduct and conversation, both in the 
church and in the world, ought to be such as becometh the Gospel of 
Christ, and that it is our incumbent duty to walk in wisdom and prudence 
towards all them that are without, to exercise a conscience void of offense 
towards God, and towards all men, by living soberly, righteously and 
godly in this present world, endeavoring by all lawful measures to promote 
the peace and welfare of this particular church, and the prosperity of the 
Redeemer's Kingdom in general. As to our regards to each other, in our 
church communion, we esteem it our duty to walk with each other in all 
humility and brotherly love, to watch over each other's conversation, to 
stir up one another to love and good works, not forsaking the assembling 
of ourselves together, as we have opportunity, to worship God according 
to his revealed will and, when the case requires, to warn, entreat, exhort, 
rebuke and admonish in the spirit of meekness, according to the rules of 
the Gospel. 

" Moreover, we think ourselves obliged to sympathize with each other in 
all conditions, both inward and outward, which God in his providence 
may bring us into ; also to bear with one another's weaknesses, failings 
and infirmities, so much as the law of Christ requires us to do ; at the 
same time to be careful not to suffer sin one upon another, or to have 



346 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 

fellowship with any one that is immoral in conduct or heretical in principle. 
Furthermore, we view it to be higjhly necessary for our peace and 
prosperity, and for the honor of God, to be careful and keep up a strict 
Gospel discipline among us, and to be careful in receiving members not to 
refuse the weak, nor to admit any nnbaptized person to our communion, 
or any one but such as make a good profession of repentance towards God 
and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, and also to cut off or reject and put 
away any one member from our communion, fellowship, watch or care, 
whose conduct is such that the word of God requires us to do it, but in no 
case to be heedless, slothful or rash, but in all matters endeavoring to act 
in the fear of God, with a Christ-like temper of mind, that God in all 
things may be glorified in the church ; and particularly to pray for one 
another and for the spread of the Gospel, the increase of Christian knowl- 
edge, and the prosperity of Zion universally. 

" Now all these and every other duty held forth and enjoined on a 
Gospel church in the Scriptures of truth, we desire and engage to be in 
performance of, through the gracious assisfance of the Lord, while we both 
admire and adore the grace that has given us a place and a name in God's 
house, better than that of sons and daughters. 

'' In testimony of our full agreement and unanimous consent to the 
aforesaid Covenant, each one of us has voluntarily subscribed his or her 
name. (Signed) : Hosea Gillett, John Skidmore, Peter Lamb, Joel 
Bishop, Chauncey Bishop, Phoebe Bishop, Clarry Burns. Hannah Miner, 
Sally Skidmore, Eachel Bishop, Lydia Fuller, Martha Bishop, Simantha 
Lealand, Nancy Ticknor, Hannah Gillett." Just one-half of these names 
belonged to the Joel Bishop family. " Father and mother," Joel and 
Phoebe Bishop, were dismissed by letter July 3d, 1836. 

This covenant has received an almost monthly renewal of fealty from 
1820 to the present. While these covenanters have had no such trial of 
their faith as had those of Scotland, few would presume to affirm that they 
had not the courage of their convictions, and that they, too, would not 
seal their devotion with their blood, as have done the faithful in all ages of 
the chnrch. The carefully kept records appeal to the reader, just in keep- 
ing with his own spirit. Does he look for material for merriment, it may 
be found in abundance, but should he turn to these pages for the long roll 
of duties carefully and regularly performed, for indications of a disposition 
to obey God's commands in the best way possible, he will find what he 
seeks in equal abundance. To err is human, and our common humanity 
has no startling exception in Eose. While we may pause over the name 
of the delinquent whom the committee visits to secure a renewed " travel " 
with the church, let us not- forget the many more whose names are never 
found in such connection. The prodigal son is ever of more mention and 
importance than that elder brother who never strayed. Of course, it is 



ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 347 

natural that we should smile over some of the "labours" of the many 
visiting committees. For instance, it seems a little queer, and possibly a 
trifle indicative of the original Adam, when a certain ex-deacon is received 
by letter, and in only a few months has to be "laboured" with because 
of his refusal to pay his assessment toward defraying the gospel bill. 
Doubtless he believed in free grace as well as election. However, as he 
soon paid up, he was restored to fellowship. One brother was called upon 
to have his many shortcomings set before him, and, according to common 
report, he was deserving of the severest censure, but he, suspecting the 
nature of the errand, quite forestalled his visitors by telling them that the 
church had become so corrupt, he desired to withdraw from it. There was 
nothing left to do but to grant his wish. One sister was the subject of long 
and serious consideration, since she attended the ministrations of another 
denomination at the instance of her husband, who was not a Baptist. 
Among other reports presented, was one wherein it was stated: "She, 
wishing to cultivate friendship at home, thought it best for the present 
not to meet with the church, and the church voted to exercise Christian 
forbearance towards her for the present." 

The men and women who made up this first roll of membership were the 
sturdy pioneers of the town. They worked hard in clearing the way for 
later generations, but they found time to attend divine service better than 
some of their descendants. They were seldom absent from the covenant 
meeting on the afternoon of each first Saturday of the month. Then was 
transacted the regular business of the church, and on the Sunday following, 
alternate months, came the baptisms and receptions of members. In the 
early days the ordinance was administered in Thomas' creek, west of the 
Valley, and occasionally in Lamb's pond, near our present North Rose, 
but for some years the church has had a well appointed baptistry. 

The list of those who were faithful to the end is a long one, and were it 
made out, in it would be found the names of several hundred of the town's 
worthy citizens. They had their peculiarities of voice, manner and 
thought, and the expression of these characteristics often rendered meet- 
ings memorable, that otherwise would have been forgotten years ago. 
An old lady, now gone to her reward, has told me of one of the early 
worthies who was always on hand at all the means of grace, but who had 
a stereotyped form of ending his remarks. It was something like this, 
accompanying his words with a very vigorous scratching of his head, 
" Finally, brethren, I hope you will all prove faithful, and that you will 
persevere to the end, and as for myself, I mean to keep digging." His 
suiting the action to the word produced an impression that years could not 
efface. 

The story was long told with infinite gusto of one good brother, who was 
accused of the exceedingly ungallant act of pulling his wife out of bed in 



348 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 

the morning, a charge that he indignantly repelled, saying : " I had called 
her repeatedly, and as she failed to appear, I just took her by her lily- 
white foot and gently drew her from the couch." However clear the 
distinction was in the brother's mind, it never struck his fellow members 
as particularly vivid. 

The first meetings of the church were held at the house of Joel Bishop, 
and April 15, 1820, it was voted to request the churches of Wolcott, Galen 
and Lyons to constitute a council, "to examine into our situation, and 
if they see fit to show their fellowship of this conference as a sister church 
■of Christ." April 27th, 1820, it was voted to present to the council 
as their views of doctrines and practice the confession of faith and plat- 
form of the Ontario Association. Moreover, it was voted that Brothers 
Chauncey Bishop and Hosea Gillett be a committee to represent the 
conference to the council. The record of this council is in the handwriting 
of John B. Potter, of Galen, who was clerk. Joel Blakeman, of the same 
town, was chairman. The council convened at the house of Joel Bishop, 
Wednesday, May 3d, 1820. Wolcott sent Elder David Smith, Jacob Purdy 
and Charles Sweet. From Galen came Brothers Potter, Blakeman and 
John Flint, while Lyons sent William W. Brown, Ebenezer M. Pease, and 
James Bryant. Visiting brethren, John Burns, from Wolcott, James 
Beard and Alanson Eichmond, from Lyons, were invited to a seat in the 
council. After the proper examination and deliberation, it was voted to 
fellowship the conference as a "church of Christ in sister relation." 
Those who constituted this assembly long since passed on, but the object 
of consideration flourishes in perennial youth. May 20, 1820, Chauncey 
Bishop was made clerk, and September 20, 1820, it was voted to apply for 
membership in the Cayuga Association, sending Cliauucey Bishop as dele- 
gate. The request was granted. In 1834 the church became one of the 
Wayne Association Baptist Churches. The first minister was Elder David 
Smith, whose name appears in the council of recognition as a delegate from 
Wolcott. His letter was accepted January 8, 1821. The list of preachers 
from that date to the present is a long one. It includes names that have 
been very familiar throughout the western part of the state. While few of 
them have been sounded by the trump of fame, by far the larger number 
are those of men who worked long and faithfully in the Master's vineyard. 
The second incumbent was ordained here. William B. Brown was called 
May 5, 1821, and the council which acted upon his case met at the house 
of Joel Bishop, August 20th, of the same year. Participants in this council 
had been invited from Wolcott, Victory, Cato, Ira, Mentz, Brutus, Aure- 
lius, Galen, Lyons and Sodus, while the local representatives were Zeuas 
Fairbanks, Hosea Gillett and Chauncey Bishop. How many responded to 
the invitation is not stated, but at the council Eev. John I. Twiss preached ; 
Eev. John Jeffers prayed the prayer of ordination ; and with Eevs. Twiss, 



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Smith and Uavis, laid ou hands ; Eev. David Smith gave the charge ; 
Eev. George B. Davis gave the right hand of fellowship and made the 
concluding prayer. As many of the ministers continued to preach here 
after they had received letters of dismissal, it is possible to approximate 
only to the dates of their ministrations. Daring the intervals between 
regular pastorates, many candidates were heard, but no effort has been 
made to secure their names. It is possible that the following list may 
include some names whose owners were merely birds of passage, but 
the frequency of their appearance in the records is the warrant for their 
appearance here. 

Elder Brown was dismissed February 2d, 1822, but he was in and about 
the church for some years afterward. In fact, his name, with those of 
Luther Goodrich. Isaac D. Hosford, William Moore, Ezra Chattield and A. 
Barrett, fill the gap till 1834, when Eev. Martin Miner appeared and 
remained till 1836. Then, in order, we have Eevs. Issac Bucklin, H. B. 
Kenyon, Luke Morley and Hezekiah De Golyer, to 1837. The next four 

years were occupied by Eevs. B. Putnam, Dodge and John Fairchild. 

From 1841 to 1845, in which time Eev. Amasa N. Jones was ordained, 
Eev. Amasa S. Curtiss filled the pulpit ; and from 1845 to 1849, the Eev. 
Andrew Wilkins had his first pastorate in Eose. Elder Anson Graham 
came in 1850, and continued two years. January 1st, 1853, Butler Morley 
was received by letter, and the churches of Clyde. Lyons, Butler, Wolcott, 
Eed Creek, Marion, Sennett and Sodus were invited to participate in a 
council of ordination, which met and ordained the candidate January 20th, 
of the same year. Elder Morley remained till 1854, and June 11th, of 
that year, the Eev. Thomas T. St. John came and remained three years. 
After him, 1857-'59, the church had as pastor the Eev. Xelson Ferguson, 
and then, 1860-'62, the Eev. John Halliday, though between these two, 
the Eev. Leander Hall was ordained here, in March, 1860, remaining only 
a short time. Then followed Elder Ira Dudley, who went away in 1865. 
Eev. George Butler, an Englishman, was here one year, 1866, and the Eev. 
Abner Maynard followed till 1870. In 1871 we have Elder L. P. Judson, 
and in 1872 Elder W. O. Gunn. Eev. Thomas J. Seigfried is assigned to 
1873, and the only settled minister till 1876 is the Eev. Eussell Collins, 
though some part of the time was occupied by the Eev. Eeuben Burton, 
now of Syracuse, but then in the Eochester Seminary. Then came the 
Eev. Thomas F. Smith, and his pastorate held till 1880. He was succeeded 
by the Eev. Andrew Wilkins, December 11, 1881, who continued till his 
ministrations ended with death, and his body was borne to the neighboring 
cemetery. The Eev. M. H. De Witt came next, going away in 1885. Elder 
L. G. Brown continued till 1887, and then Elder Clinton Shaw till 1890. 
The Eev. N. C. Hill presided for a single year, 1891, and then followed the 
Eev. Maxwell H. Cusick, the present incumbent. 



350 EOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 

To the older members of the church, each one of these thirty-three names 
will arouse many memories, not always pleasant, but, in the main, bearing 
out the usual proportions of the bitter and the sweet in this life of ours. 
The most of these preachers had families, and their wives and children 
bore their part in the annual routine of church and town existence. 
Comparisons wonld be invidious, but if one man was not liked by some, 
he was so much more popular with another faction that a good average 
was maintained. One man was conspicuous for his success in revival 
services, while another could preach the best doctrinal discourses. 
Another was noted for the zeal of his pastoral labors. Thus while no one 
man had in perfection all the ministerial graces, a glance over the whole 
array finds much to admire. While only one minister was called back to 
a second pastorate, it is highly to the credit of the church that very many 
of the former pastors have been willing to take up the lines again. Many 
will recall the bright faces of ministers' children who here grew to maturity. 
The Wilkins boys, two of them, had here their early boyhood. Wallace 
St. John became one of the most noted schoolmasters in the town. Clark 
Ferguson became himself a clergyman, and his sisters contributed no 
little to the life of the church. Elder Maynard's only daughter, Frances, 
married Gilbert White, and for some years lived in town, and the widow 
of Elder Wilkins is still a highly esteemed resident of the village. 

For many years the ministers have lived in the Yalley, but in the earlier 
days they resided out of the village, and not infrecjuently tilled several 
acres of land, thus conferring a deal of pleasure upon some parishioners, 
who thought sermons constructed at the "tail of the plow" much more 
efficacious than those which " smelled of the lamp." Elder Fairchild and 
his family occupied a log house, afterwards owned and used by Egbert 
Soper, standing on the side of the hill, just east of the present residence of 
Charles Osborn, in the east part of the town ; and Mr. O.'s home was the 
habitation of Elders Graham and Ferguson. Elder Bucklin's home was 
the old Joel Bishop place. Elders Curtiss and Wilkins, in the latter's 
first pastorate, lived a little north of opposite to the abode of Hamel Gloss. 
The first minister, David Smith, dwelt in a log house erected for him on 
the site of Henry Decker's home. Elder St. John resided on the road east 
of the white school-house in Galen ; Elder Halliday in the bee hive ; Elder 
Dudley, while he did not keep a hotel, did live for a time in the south 
tavern. One shot from Elder Guun did memorable execution, for he raised 
the money to pay for the parsonage where subsequent pastors have been 
domiciled. 

Though organized in 1S20, it was not till 1836 that a building was 
erected for divine worship. Before this, the people had used the school- 
houses at the Valley, and at Lamb's corners, along with private houses, 
particularly the home of Joel Bishop. Evidently they counted well the 



ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 351 

cost before beginning. Very little data can be found as to the building of 
the edifice, but it appears that the architect and builder was Ansel Gardner, 
a son-in-law of Chauncey Bishop. Items concerning the building pei'iod 
are scarce, but Xovemljer 11, 18.34, the trustees appointed Chauncey 
Bishop, Ira Mirick and Peter Valentine a building committee. As the 
annual business meeting of 18.36 was held in March, in the school-house, 
and that of 1837 was held in the same month in the meeting house, it must 
be inferred that the edifice was completed in the interval. I have not been 
able to find any data as to cost. The site was bought of the late Hiram 
Mirick. Whatever changes have been wrought in subsequent years in 
covering and in refitting the interior, the old frame- work has not been 
altered. Xothing but fire or tornado could harm these timbers, so securely 
and honestly laid. The edifice made very little pretension to architectural 
beauty, but it answered well the purposes for which it was constructed. 
"Within, the way of life was made plain. Without, between services, the 
vexed (juestions of the day were discussed with as much zest and fervor as 
the time and place would permit. Few problems of politics, i>olitical 
economy, agriculture and other science escaped weekly solutions at the 
hands of these sapient farmers. No chief justice, wig-covered and wool- 
sack seated, ever gave expression to more oracular utterances than every 
Sunday fell from the lips of those who leaned up against the south side of 
the building and talked. Had plans, developed here, been followed, who 
knows but that the Rebellion might have been suppressed years before 
Grant wore it out '? 

In ISGl there was a reformation of the interior, changing the pulpit to 
the north side, so that the preacher might face, not only his people seated, 
but all late comers, and blinds were placed upon the windows. Of the 
latter improvement, I have not the least doubt, for I drove every screw, 
while Deacon George Seelye and John Gillett held the foot of the ladder 
and discussed the War. At this time, also, a bell was jilaced in the church 
steeple. 

In 1885-6 a very thorough renovation of the structure, within and with- 
out, was effected. The outlay of $1,400 was well expended, and the result 
has so metamorphosed the original structure that the early worshipers 
would pass it without recognition. The galleries disappeared, singers' 
seats were placed at the pulpit's right, a baptistry was constructed beneath 
the pulpit, and new entrances were devised, considerably adding to the 
capacity of the church. The basement has kitchen and dining-room, so 
essential to modern churches. The roof is covered with tin, but the old 
church sheds remain as in days of old. Good Baptist horses instinctively 
turn towards them whenever driven through the Valley. 

During these seventy-two years of existence, the Rose Church has elected 
to the office of deacon many men who have merited and enjoyed the highest 



352 KOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 

respect of their fellow citizens. The first appointed were William Briggs. 
and George Seelye, who were ordained to their office July 16th, 1835. 
Again, in 1843, September 19th, John I. Smith and James H. Ferris were 
ordained deacons. Elder John Mitchell, of Clyde, preached, and was 
also chairman. The pastor. Elder A. S. Curtis, prayed, and with Elder 
Mitchell and Deacon George Seelye, laid on hands. Deacon Seelye, also, 
gave the hand of fellowship. These were the only cases of ordination, but 
other deacons were appointed, as Benjamin Genung, William Guthrie, 
Luther Wilson and Jefferson Chaddock. 

The church has always been well supplied with musicians. The 
Holmeses, Genungs, Ellinwoods, Osgoods and others well maintained this 
part of worship. When, in 1835, Mrs. Deacon George Seelye appeared, 
she was the first of a long line of singers, for the Sheffields have contributed 
no little to the church music. Her son, Judson, at one time led, and after 
him Joel S. Sheffield came, and he held the leadership till 1892. Budora 
M. Seelye played the melodeon, both before and after her marriage to 
Lucien H. Osgood. Her sister, Estelle (Mrs. M. G. McKoon), followed 
her, with Mrs. Frances (Maynard) White, till Lucy (Sheffield) Wade 
took the place. Joel S. Sheffield's daughter, Hattie, is the present 
instrumentalist. William B. Kellogg and Felton Hickok were long singers 
in the choir. 

The incorporation of the church took place March 17, 1834, with David 
Holmes, Ira Mirick, Chauncey Bishop, Joseph Seelye and Peter Valentine 
as first trustees. This was entered in the county clerk's office, April 15. 
The annual meeting comes the third Thursday in February. 



THE ROSE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 

The old yet well preserved first volume of the records of this church has 
upon its first page the following interesting entry: "Records of the 
Third Presbyterian Church in Wolcott, February 17th, 1825. The Rev- 
erend Francis Pomeroy and the Reverend Benjamin Stockton, members of 
the Presbytery of Geneva, met at the school-house near Mr. John Closs' 
in Wolcott for the purpose of setting off certain members of the first 
Presbyterian Church in Wolcott, and organizing them into a church by 
themselves. Opened by prayer. The following members were set off and 
formed into a church, viz.: Males, John Wade, Aaron Shepherd, Simeon 
Van Aukeu, Rufus Wells, Moses Hickok. Females, Euuace Wade, Polly 
Shepherd, Lydia Van Auken." 

Then follow the articles of faith and the covenant. At the same meeting, 
John Wade and Moses Hickok were set apart as elders in the church, and 
Aaron Shepherd was made the first deacon. Several of these constituent 
members, having come from Xew England, must have been Congregation- 
alists, but Presbyterianism had the stronger hold in this locality, and a 
matter of church government was not enough to estrange those who 
accepted the prime tenets of English dissent. Of these first eight members, 
all died in Rose, worthy members of their church, save three, who took 
letters of dismissal to churches in other localities. These were Simeon 
Van Anken and wife and Rufus Wells. Till his death in 1840, December 
24th, Elder John Wade missed very few meetings of the session. Deacon 
Aaron Shepherd passed away in 18-tO, and Moses Hickok in 1826. Polly 
Shepherd, as the widow of Asel Dowd, of Huron, died in 1858. The 
student of local history finds much to admire in these names, representing 
men and women who followed blazed trees to their new homes in the 
wilderness. Pioneers, when the century was in its teens, they had first 
cast in their religious lot with the church originally located at Port Bay, 
since known as the First Church of Wolcott. It was a long ride for the 
Wades and Shepherds from their home in the south part of the town to 
this early church, but all of them were Godfearing people and, in their 
old Connecticut home, had been used to all-day sessions of worship in the 
edifice on Town hill. New Hartford. However, all must have hailed a 
church nearer home with no little satisfaction. " The school-house near 
John Closs' " and that " near Charles Thomas' " long served these people 
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354 ROSE NKIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 

in lieu of an edifice of their own. Session meetings were held usually at 
pi'ivate houses. March 8th, 1825, Elizur Flint applied for membership, 
and was received, and during the many subsequent years of his long life 
as elder, deacon and clerk, he went in and out before his fellow citizens, 
holding their highest respect. In April of the opening year, Mrs. Chloe 
Bishop united with the church and during their long lives she and her 
Baptist husband, Chauncey, walked in the most " orderly " manner their 
respective religious -ways. Occasionally they would go together, but as a 
rule they separated as they left the vehicle which brought them to the 
village. In another world, they are beyond sects and creeds. 

The Presbyterians had trouble with faithless members, as have had all 
churches from the beginning and, recorded in Deacon Flint's accurate and 
conscientious manner, the stories are entertaining reading, but as erring 
and weak humanity is not a product of any particular age or place, it is 
best to draw the mantle of oblivion over the deeds of those controlled by 
debasing appetite or unruly tempers. The membership of the church has 
never been large, but it has always included many of the best people in 
the town. 

As already indicated, its meeting places were migratory till 18.33, when 
a place of worship was dedicated on the site of the mill just east of the 
Baptist Church. It was not showy, but built after the notions of church 
architecture then prevalent, it long answered the needs of the society. In 
or about 1862 it was sold to the village for a school-house and a new 
edifice of brick was erected on its present location. The old structure, 
from its school uses, became a mill, and as such was burned several years 
ago. The new one was dedicated in 1865. A commodious building, put 
up at a cost of about $8000, it is a highly ornamental feature in the north 
part of the village. The site was purchased of William Vanderoef ; that 
of the first edifice from Hiram Mirick. Though sold for secular purposes, 
Sunday services were held in the old structure till the dedication of the 
new. 

The most interesting items in the records of the church are those per- 
taining to temperance and slavery. In the early days of Rose Presbyte- 
rianism, several men united with the church who were no temporizers in 
reform measures. Though no names are given as the writers of several 
resolutions, it is quite obvious to long-time observers of Rose matters that 
the man who first put up a frame for a barn, without the use of intoxicants, 
and who subsequently helped many a negro refugee towards a Canadian 
home, had much to do with the display of principles set forth upon these 
pages. The following statement was much to the credit of Rose people, 
irrespective of denominational lines: February 27, 1831. " The church 
unanimously resolved that they would hereafter receive to church fellow- 
.ship no person who would not agree to abstain from the use of ardent 



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spirits as a drink." The church had suffered much from a bibulous 
member, and dropped him only when thoroughly discouraged as to his 
reformation. 

The church's most serious trouble, however, arose over slavery, aud 
the following is on record : March 1, 1844. "At a meeting of the church 
to consider the subject of slavery, therefore 

'^Resolved, that slavery is a heinous sin against God and man — in the 
language of the General Assembly, utterly inconsistent with the law of 
God. and totally irreconcilable with the spirit and principles of the gospel 
of Christ, and we therefore believe Christians are bound to oppose the sin 
wherever it is intrenched, whether in church or state. 

"Resolved, that the church of Jesus Christ has no right to sustain a 
permanent church relation to so vote a sin. 

"Resolved, that we are unable to see why, if the church can safely sustain 
3. church relation to this sin, aud permanently tolerate the sum of villainies 
in her body, why she may not safely associate with and tolerate any other 
known habitual sin by the same rule. 

"Resolved, that we cannot consent, with our views of the exceeding sin- 
fulness of slavery, to remain in a permanent church relation to it, and we 
believe if the whole Presbyterian Church will continue to connive with 
and fellowship this sin, despite the remonstrance of her members, and her 
acknowledgment of its inherent guilt ; then it will become the duty of the 
minority to do right if the majority will not. 

"Resolved, that we as a church will hold no fellowship or communion 
with slaveholders or their avowed apologists. 

"Resolved, that the above resolutions be entered on the church records." 

But these resolutions, however comprehensive and pertinent, did not 
satisfy the minds of the agitators, for that they continued to agitate is 
evident in that the church even determined to go out of the Presbyterian 
fold, hoping thereby to retain them. Accordingly, January 5, 1846, 
appears the following entry : 

"Resolved, with the concurrence of Presbytery, that the Presbyterian 
Church of Rose adopt the Congregational form of government." 

February 5, 1846, Deacon Flint writes : " Presbytery accede the right 
to the church to practice the foregoing resolution." Accordingly 
our Presbyterian became a Congregational body, and for some years there 
were no meetings of the session. To us of this day, these concessions 
seem to be all that any man or class of men could ask, but April 4, 1846, 
E. Flint and S. Lovejoy were appointed a committee " to visit those 
persons which have left the church informally and ascertain the reasons of 
their leaving." July 4, 1846, a good day for liberty sentiments, the com- 
mittee reported the following letter : 



356 ROSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 

"May 12th, 1846. 
"To E. Flint: 

"Sir — We cheerfully comply with your request in giving our reasons 
in writing for seceding from the Presbyterian Church of Eose, in order 
that they may be recorded in your church records. And we give for our 
first and great reason that we do not believe the Presbyterian Church to 
be a true church or, in other words, a church of Christ. And we found 
our belief on the following facts: First, because she does not teach or 
practice the first great principle of Christianity, viz., the inviolability of 
human rights, but suffers unrebuked one portion of her members to 
chattelize and traffic in the souls and bodies of another portion of her own 
members, thus virtually reducing the image of God (in the persons of 
many thousands of her own acknowledged members in her church for 
whom Christ died) to the condition of things, to property, and by 
impiously robbing them of their inalienable rights, have reversed the great 
law of love, this distinguishing feature between a true and a false church, 
and have completely annihilated the distinction which God has established 
between the nature and condition of immortal man and the beasts that 
perish, thus sanctioning crimes in her communion, which is utterly 
subversive of a church of Christ. 

Second, that said church, with a full knowledge of these facts before 
her, did declare through her representative in her highest judicial capacity 
at the meeting of her last General Assembly, not only to the shame and 
disgrace of Christianity, but to our common humanity, that it was not for 
the edification of the church to take action on the subject. Thus, in effect, 
reversing her former decisions (though she never complied with them in 
practice), and sanctioning by that and subsequent acts in her lower 
judicatories, in refusing to bear witness against slavery, most of the crimes 
she charges against the church of Eorae, and for which she does not 
hesitate to call her a church of anti-Christ, thus we are forced to the 
conclusion that she must and does necessarily partake of the character of 
the church of Rome in an exact proportion as in her practice she approxi- 
mates towards her, and we have not arrived at this conclusion in a hasty 
or precipitate manner ; we have long and faithfully examined this subject, 
as in the light of eternity, and are fully established in the belief, not with- 
out evidence, but from facts which cannot be denied, that the Presbyterian 
Church, in consequence of her participation in and by the position she has 
assumed, does, while sustaining such position with regard to American 
slavery, stand as truly convicted before high heaven and the world as 
does the Romish church of withholding the Bible from a portion of the 
laity. Of abrogating the institution of marriage at pleasure, compelling 
thousands of her members to live in adultery or in a state of forced con- 
cubinage, that she governs and holds her church together, not by the law 



ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 357 

of love, but by physical force, by the power of the sword and by pains and 
penalties — we cannot, therefore, in the light of divine truth, by the most 
favorable construction, believe the Presbyterian Church in the United 
States of America sustains the character necessary to constitute her a 
true church, or church of Christ. Samuel Lyman, Gideon Henderson, 
Daniel Lovejoy, Wm. Lovejoy." 

Whereupon the church adopted the following : 

"Resolved, that the report be accepted. 

"Resolved, that the report be adopted. 

"Resolved, that the names of Gideon Henderson and Deborah Henderson, 
Daniel Lovejoy and Wm. Lovejoy, Samuel Lyman and Clement Lyman 
and Caroline Lyman be stricken from our roll." 

While deprecating such a disintegrating course, one cannot repress a 
feeling of admiration for people in whose breasts love of oppressed 
humanity had too strong a lodgment. Eose never had more reputable 
citizens. 

As the cause of leaving the Presbyterian Church no longer existed, it is 
not surprising to find the following action : 

April 18, 1851, at the instance of Elizur Flint, the following preamble 
and resolution were voted by a church meeting: " Whereas, this church 
obtained leave of Presbytery to withdraw from its care and assume the 
Congregational form of government for the purjiose of I'econciling diffi- 
culties that existed between it and certain members, that harmony in views 
and actions might be promoted for the glory of God and good of man, and 
whereas after the lapse of five years, having tried the result of that action 
in vain, therefore, resolved, that this church ask Presbytery to receive us 
under their care and restore us to our former privileges, that we may 
enjoy the ordinances of God's house." Vote 21. 

Protest. Rose, April 18, 1851. "We, the undersigned, disbelieving 
in and wholly abhorring the cruel and wicked system of American slavery 
and wishing to maintain no voluntary connection whatever with it, now 
send our earnest protest against uniting with or putting ourselves under 
the care of any Presbytery that holds any connection with that portion of 
the Presbyterian Church that holds slaveholders in its bosom. And we 
now ask the members of the Congregational Church of Eose, assembled on 
the 18th of April, to consider a proposition to put themselves under the 
care of Presbytery, to take this protest into consideration, and if they 
vote in favor of the proposition thus to unite, to consider us as no longer 
holding church connection with them. Vote 11. 

From that date to the present, the church has continued in the Presby- 
tery. No religious body in the town has come up through greater 
tribulation, but it stands, to-day, a tribute to the sterling worth of its 
founders and fosterers and the cause which they loved. 



358 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 

The list of ministers is a long and honorable one. The Eev. Jabez 
Spicer seems to have remained only a short time, and was followed by 

Revs. Jonathan Hovey and Hubbel. In 1827-'29 Rev. Nathan 

Gillett filled the pastorate. One of the most notable clergymen of any 
denomination ever in the town was the Rev. "William, better known as 
" Priest " Clark. He was here from 1829 to 1835, and the impression 
left was lasting and salutary. Then came Rev. Jesse Townseud, 1836 ; 
Rev. Solon G. Putnam, 1837, and Rev. Joseph Merrill in the same year. 
The Rev. Daniel Waldo, another remarkable figure in the history of the 

town and state, was here from '37 to '39. Rev. Burbank was pastor 

till 1840, and was followed till January, 1847, by the Rev. Beaufort Ladd. 
Then came four years of the Rev. O. Fitch, and next the Revs. James 
Gregg and E. Everett to 1853 ; Rev. Chas. Kenmore, '54 ; Rev. B. Ladd, 
'59; Rev. Wm. Young, '65; Rev. Martin B. Gregg, '67; Rev. J. J. 
Crane, '70; Rev. Wm. Young, '75 ; Rev. J. A. Phelps, '77; Rev. E. G. 
Cheeseman, '82; Rev. J. McMaster, '85 to '88; Rev. Chas. Ray, '91; 
Eev. Nathan B. Knapp, 1893. 

The deacons have been Aaron Shepherd, David Foster, Elizur Flint, 
Francis Osborn, Wm. Garlick, Judson Garlick, Charles E. Tillson. 

The roll of elders includes John Wade, Moses Hickok, Rufus Wells, 
Smithfield Beaden, Elizur Flint, Martin Warner, Simeon Van Auken, 
David Foster, Gideon Henderson, Chauncey Smith, Wm. Lovejoy, 
George Wickson, Jesse O. Wade, Lorenzo N. Snow, James Osborn, 
Lampson Allen, H. K. Lovejoy, Harvey Gloss, Eustace Henderson, Frank 
H. Closs, Ira T. Soule. 

The first clerk was James Van Auken and he served till November 9, 
1829. Then Smithfield Beaden kept the records till November 2. 1834. 
Next Elizur Flint took up the pen and he used it faithfully till October 
24, 1882, when the following entry is found, "I, Elizur Flint, clerk of 
sessions of the Presbyterian Church of Rose, resign the office on account 
of the infirmities of age, being eighty-nine." To him succeeded Harvey 
Closs till September 13, 1885, and then the latter's son, Frank H. Closs, 
became clerk and still holds the office. The church belongs to the Lyons 
Presbytery. 



FREE METHODIST CHURCH. 

This body is an offshoot of the M. E. Church and dates from about 1860. 
Bishop Matthew Simpson, in his Cyclopitdia of Methodism, gives the date 
of the organization as August 23 of the above year, and states that its 
origin was within the confines of the Genesee Conference, dissatisfaction 
having arisen among certain ministers concerning the administration of 
affairs. This unrest had been growing for several years, and 1860 was 
simply the culminating date. In doctrines it differs in no essential respect 
from the parent body. It retains conference boundaries, Rose being in 
the Susquehanna ; instead of bishops it has a general superintendent, 
and in place of presiding elder, it maintains a chairman of the district. 

Probably the chief cause for the beginning of the Rose Free Methodist 
Church may be found in the discussions incident to rebuilding the place 
of worship of the old church after its burning in 18.59. Naturally there was 
much diversity of opinion as to the form, location and cost of the new 
structure. At any rate, in 1860, the seeds of the new church seem to have 
been sown. In the formation and maintenance of thjs church, none was 
more prominent than Thaddeus and Josephus Collins, father and son, and 
for more than thirty years the latter has remained steadfast at his post. 
Probably no name in the state, in the ranks of this body, is better known 
than that of F. J. Collins. By his presence, speech and purse, he has 
made for himself a foremost position among the faithful. His home has 
ever been open to the ministers, and once a camp meeting was held in a 
grove upon his farm. His only daughter is the wife of one of the success- 
ful clergymen of the denomination, the Rev. Wm. Winget, now of Buffalo, 
chairman of that district. 

Like so many other religious bodies in Rose, this began its worship in 
the Valley school-house. Soon after, the present house of worship, on 
Wolcott street, was begun; though added to in various ways, the original 
structure stands to-day, and just to the eastward is the parsonage. In no 
way pretentious, these buildings answer well the purposes for which they 
were erected. The edifice was dedicated January 8, 1863, sermon by the 
Rev. J. Travis, of Rochester. 

Rose first appears on the minutes of the Free Methodist Church in 1861, 
when it was to be supplied by Revs. Burton and J. W. Stacey. Wm. 
Cooley came in 1862 and remained one year. During his stay, the church 



360 EOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 

was dedicated. M. N. Downing served from October, 1863, to October 12, 

1865 ; J. Olney and D. A. Cargil, from October 15, 1865, to October 6, 

1866 ; M. D. McDougal preached from October 6, '66, to October 6, '67. 
McDougal served the next year with L. Graham. John Glen and D. 
Dempsey were pastors from October 6, '68, to October 11, '69. Next, J. 
B. Freeland and G. Eakins, from October 12, to September 19, 1870 ; M. N. 
Downing, September 20, '70, to September 15, '72; W. Southworth, 
September 15, '72, to September 12, '74; T. Whiffen, September 13, '74, to 
September 16, '76 ( T. Eoss supplying the last year ) ; O. M. Owen, 
September 17, '76, to September 15, '78 ; G. T. Sutton, September 16, '78, 
to September 14, '79 ; Y. Osborne, September 15, '79, to September 20, '80; 
J. Odell, September 21, '80, to September 11, '82 ; J. D. Osmun, Septem- 
ber 11, '82, to September 15, '84; T. Whiffen, September 16, '84, to Septem- 
ber 6, '86; George Stover, September 7, '86, to September 10, '88 ; J. B. 
Newton, September 11, '88, to August 24, '90 ; A. F. Curry, August 24, 
'90, to September 24, '92 ; T. J. Dunham, September 24, '92, to September 
19, '93. The latest appointee is the Rev. D. C. Stanton. 

Wm. Finch, Philo Miner, the late Wm. H. Thomas, as well as F. J. 
Collins, have long been prominent in the councils of the church. The 
present clerk is George Milem. 

From this church, John Glen went out to his life of ministerial useful- 
ness and Thirza M., the oldest daughter of George Milem, has recently 
entered upon a similar work, and is now in Weedsport. Happily, in this 
denomination, sex is no barrier to Christian activity. The Rose Church 
is associated with Clyde, making one charge, and both belong to the Clyde 
district. 



THE "VALLEY" SCHOOL. 



" Nor fears the blinded bigot's rule 

When near her church-spire stands the school." 

— Whittier. 

The proximity of the village school-house to the Methodist Church 
suggests the above words from New England's beloved poet. It was a 
favorite scheme of the late Eron N. Thomas to have his church and the 
school near each other, and both on the street that he opened above thirty 
years ago, through his meadow land. There have been four stages in 
school-house building in the Valley. First, the log structure, next the red 
school-house, then the stone, and finally the brick building now in use. 
Mr. Thomas claimed that the first regular school in town was taught by 
Sally Bishop, near her father's home, and that Maria Viele, from Butler, 
followed her. David Smith, the Baptist minister, also taught in the same 
place, and, according to Mr. Thomas, he was the first teacher in the Valley, 
in the old log house standing near the present North Hotel. The same 
authority names as subsequent teachers, Abigail Bunce (" Aunt Nabby"), 
Catharine Eobinson, William H. Lyon, Gibson P. Center, John S. Roe 
(Butler), George W. Ellinwood ("Squire"), George Paddock, Jackson 
Valentine, Wallace St. John, John and Isaac Robinson. 

The first written data that I have been able to find is an almost illegible 
(through the faded ink) scrap, which reads as follows : 

"At a meeting of the freeholders and inhabitants of school district 
number thirteen, in the town of Wolcott, held pursuant to adjournment at 
the school-house, on the 4th day of October, A. D. 1819, Milburn Salisbury 
was chosen moderator, and Jeremiah Leland was present as district clerk. 

"1st. Resolved, Unanimously, Jei'emiah Leland shall serve as clerk the 
ensuing year. 

"2. Resolved, That Alpheus Collins, Erastus Fuller and Samuel South- 
wick shall serve as trustees. 

"3. Resolved, That Thaddeus Collins, Junior, shall serve as collector. 

"4. Resolved, To furnish a book to keep the district records. 

"5. Resolved, To raise a tax of six dollars to repair the school-house, 
and to purchase the aforesaid book." 



362 ROSE NEIGHBOEHOQD SKETCHES. 

Apparently the book was not procured till 1823, for only scraps of 
data appear. Possibly the six dollars did not suffice. October 24, 1820, 
Jeremiah Leland is directed by Ebenezer Fitch, one of Wolcotfs com- 
missioners of common schools, to notify the residents of said District No. 
13, of a school meeting to be held November 4, at 3 p. m. The annual 
meeting for 1821, October 1st, made Thaddeus Collins, Jr., Moderator; 
Jeremiah Leland, Clerk ; Jacob Miller, Samuel Southwick and John 
Skidraore, Trustees ; Thaddeus Collins, Collector. Parents were to provide 
a half cord of wood for each pupil by the 15th of ensuing January. In 
1822, Leland and Thad. Collins, Jr., were continued in respective offices. 
Alfred Lee, Milburn Salisbury and Elias D. Sherman were made trustees. 
Parents had an option of a half cord of wood for each pupil or pay thirty- 
seven and a half cents instead. The well-kept book appears in 1823, 
and the very first entry is to the effect that Lee and Salisbury, trustees, 
received of Elizur Flint, in cash, .<i2S.17, which they paid to C. Salisbury, 
$18.17, and to A. Bnnce, $10, teachers. Teaching was done in those 
days, probably, for the love of it. October 6, 1823, it was voted to build 
a school-house 22x26 feet. It was also voted to " vandue " said house 
to the lowest bidder, to be paid in grain : wheat at one dollar per bushel, 
and corn at fifty cents ; the same to be paid in two installments. The 
trustees were voted power to select a site. Obviously, objections were 
raised, for December 20, the same year, the district met again and rescinded 
the vote as to grain, and voted to raise a tax of "twenty dollars, cash, to 
procure glass, nails, etc., for a school-house," and voted further to raise 
by tax two hundred dollars for the new house, said tax to be paid In work 
or building materials, at the discretion of the trustees. Work was rated 
at six shillings, or seventy -five cents per day for a man, and four shillings, 
or half a dollar, for his team. Should a citizen delay unreasonably in 
doing as directed, the trustees were to collect cash. Should the above levy 
prove insufficient, the trustees were to impose enough more to complete 
the structure. Considerable confidence was indicated in the trustees, 
Messrs. Southwick, Salisbury and Alpheus Collins. The building was to 
be completed the first day of the next November. 

The school book contains the indenture, or rather copy, between the 
trustees and Thaddeus Collins, whereby the latter sells or leases to the 
trustees and their successors, for the consideration of one dollar paid, and 
the annual rental of two peppercorns, if lawfully demanded, twelve rods of 
land bounded as follows: "Beginning at the N. W. corner of the log 
school-house, thence south four rods, thence east three rods, thence north 
to the Adams road, thence west to the place of beginning." It is stipulated 
that the land shall be used for school purposes only. 

November 24, 1824, the house was not finished, for the fathers then 
voted to complete it, and let the job to Thaddeus Collins, Jr., for $16, 



ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 36S 

to be raised from the district by tax, and the old building was sold at 
auction to Elias D. Sherman for six dollars and thirty-one cents. At the 
annual meeting, December 25, 1824, it was voted to paint the school-house 
red, with corner boards white, and a tax of six dollars for paint and oil 
was levied. In 1825 the freeholders voted to have "a man school four 
months the ensuing winter season and six months woman school in the 
summer season." Among other duties, the teacher had to measure the 
wood sent for each pupil. October 16, 1826, was the first meeting after 
the formation of the town of Rose, and the new school-house was not paid 
for, it being' resolved that the trustees collect arrearages. Nov. 15. boun- 
daries for the new No. 4 district were specified, covering all the territory 
now included in the Valley district, and considerably more on the east, 
south and west. A special meeting was held April 25, 1827, to vote the 
use of the school-house for religious meetings. Also, voted to procure 
a bolt-lock, and that John Bassett be " saxten " to keep the key, etc. In 
October of the same year it was voted that each i>roprietor pay fifty cents 
a cord for wood, if he fail to deliver his quota when called upon by the 
tnistees. In 1829 came the first report to the commissioners of common 
schools by the trustees, and it is noteworthy that the clerk spells the 
important word thus, " Commishoners." October 3d, 1831, Eron N. 
Thomas first appeared as clerk, and the spelling and penmanship improved 
at once. At this time it was voted to raise five dollars for repairs to the 
school-house. The year also marks the advent of a stove, for October 24, 
at a special meeting, it was voted to raise by tax .$25 for a stove. The 
chimney was sold to Abel Lyon for $4.50, the andirons to Samuel Batt for 
fifty- six cents. The report for the year 1831 sets forth that the school 
had been kept eight months, that the public money amounted to .$43. 44, 
and the amount raised above this was .$20.56, making an aggregate easy to 
average for the months taught. Teachers certainly did not get rich in 
those days. There were eighty-five pupils at school, but the whole 
number in the district between the ages of five and sixteen years was 
seventy. Old boys and girls went to school then. In 1832 it was resolved, 
"That the writing falls be lowered and made not so steep." February 8, 
1833, at a special meeting, twenty-one votes were cast for and four votes 
against a change of school-house site. August 6, 1833, it was voted to 
raise twelve dollars for repairs, and for building a certain necessary small 
building. As this is the first mention of the same, curiosity is naturally 
excited as to whether any had existed previously. The report for 1835- 
gives 110 children taught, and 109 of school age. Not much for a truant 
officer to do. In 1837 matters had progressed to the extent of supplying 
wood by one person, he securing the job by bidding. The bills were to be 
paid pro rata, according to children sent. Lucius Ellinwood secured the 
contract at "75 cts. per cord two ft. wood." The first mention of a library 
is in 1839, when five dollars was voted for it. 



364 EOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 

But the new school-house had become an old one. To accommodate the 
builders of the hotel, now known as Pimm's or Whitney's, the building 
had been moved to the site of the old stone school-house. Ira Mirick and 
his wife, Martha, executed a deed for the land in September, 1845. The 
stone edifice was in process of erection, the contract therefor having been 
made in March preceding with William Dickinson and Henry Robinson 
" to build a good and substantial cobble stone school-house, to be 26 by 36 
feet inside in the clear, to be divided into two rooms and an entra." The 
rooms were to be ten feet high and the walls sixteen inches thick. " The 
corner stones to be as good as those of Wm. Benjamin's House." (The 
present home of Truman Desmond, in Town's district.) The specifications 
throughout are very exact, and the structure was to be ready for occupancy 
the 15th of September following. The cost, complete, was to be $400. 
Like all of Henry Robinson's work, this was well done, and the stones 
laid by his diligent hands are yet in place. 

This building also had its day, and bills for repair became so frequent 
that either a new house or very thorough overhauling became imperative. 
June 26, 1861, Brownell Wilbur, moderator, it was voted to adjourn to the 
Presbyterian meeting house, and also voted to adjourn to E. N. Thomas's 
school-house, which latter vote seemed to be the effective one, for on the 
29th of June, the district thus met, and by a large majority voted to pur- 
chase the unused Presbyterian edifice, and in this old-time structure, Rose 
Valley young ideas were nurtured for several years. Of course, this was 
only a tiding over till the people were ready to build a substantial edifice. 
The matter was so momentous that many meetings were called and many 
votes taken, till it was finally decided in 1867, March 28th, to build on the 
piesent location, on Thomas street. The total outlay for site, materials 
and construction was to be $4,000. Peter Harmon drew specifications 
and was the builder. As it was voted October 8, 1867, to put the wood 
for the year in the basement of the new school-house, it may be inferred 
that the winter term for 1867-8 was begun in the new edifice. To-day, the 
same, surrounded by trees, is a shrine of learning loved and esteemed, as 
a rule, all the more as the years increase, separating the pupils from it. 
The school has a good, local standing. It may be of interest to state that 
the annual bill for wood grew to be more than .$80, and in 1878 a coal 
stove was bought for one room, and the next year another stove of the 
same kind followed. Among later teachers may be named Messrs. H. E. 
Thornhill, George H. Stewart, and Misses A. M. Colburn, Cora and Lottie 
Knapp. The present principal is George D. Sprague, of Butler. His 
assistant is Miss Ara Barnum, of Glenmark. 



TEMPERANCE IN ROSE. 

Doubtless this town has had as little drunkenness as any in the state. 
Of course, there have been those who lingered long over their cui^s and 
who foundj'pleasure in strong cider, still they were the exception, and 
now more than a score of yeais have elapsed since there was a legal sale 
of an intoxicant in Eose. May such abstinence continue, even till the end 
of time. 

The town was just three years old, lacking seven days, when a meeting 
was called to see what could be done in behalf of temperance. That first 
record book is still extant, commencing with the handwriting of James S. 
Showers and ending with that of George Seelye, secretaries. The date of 
beginning is February IS, 1829, and the last entry is October 18, 1836. 
Just what caused the society to cease, it would be difficult to tell at this 
late date, certainly not for lack of material to be reformed. At the first 
meetinggof the inhabitants of the town called to consider the subject of 
temperance,^ Doctor Peter Valentine gave an address, James I. Woolsey 
was made chairman and Smithfield Beden was secretary. To us of 
to-day, the jjledge taken is of the most consequence, though there was a 
long and somewhat iiatulent preamble, apparently the result of the com- 
bined wisdom of all the town's teachers and preachers. The organization 
was named " The Eose Temperance Society for the Promotion of Temper- 
ance," and here is the pledge : "Article 3d. Any person may become a 
member [of this society by subscribing the following pledge': We, the 
undersigned, do agree to abstain wholly from the use of ardent spirits, 
except for medical purposes ; not to furnish them as a part of hospitable 
entertainment, nor to laborers in our employ, in no case to give or vend 
them either by small or large measure, so as to knowingly countenance 
the improper use of them, in particular in no case to violate the laws of 
the land regulating the sale of ardent spirits, and also to give our patron- 
age to those merchants and keepers of public houses who by their example 
and influence bear a decided testimony against the sin of intemperance." 

It was also stipulated that erring members should be labored with and 
held in line if possible ; if not, they should be excluded. To the above 
pledge, above three hundred names are attached, representing the best 
people in Eose at that time. The late Stephen Collins was one of the last 



366 EOSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 

survivors. Possibly C. B. Collins, of Clyde, is the only one now living 
whose name was officially connected with the society, he having been one 
of the last board of managers. Now and then a name was dropped for 
failure to observe the constitution, and it seems not a little queer that a 
man should have been prominent in his chui-ch and still could not abide 
by the requirements of the society. One party, long au influential citizen 
west of the Valley, wrote asking to have his name removed from the list, 
saying, " My reasons are I do not lilce the conduct of some of the mem- 
bers as such and also that, in my opinion, it will lead to tyrannical 
government." 'Twas ever thus. In resisting the tyranny of a temperance 
society, many a man forged yet more strongly the links binding him to 
absolute degradation and woe. 

The first president was Elizur Flint; Vice-President, Chauncey Bishop ; 
Treasurer, Smithfield Beden ; Secretary, James S. Showers ; Managers, 
John Burns, Isaac Fulton, Stephen Collins, Peter Valentine, John Skid- 
more, Samuel Lyman. Deacon Flint continued to be president to the end, 
and he was ever ready with tongue and pen to promote true sobriety. At 
various times addresses were delivered by the Eev. Wm. Clark, by 
Deacon Flint, Smithfield Beden, Eev. Wm. McKoon and others. In a 
table of data, December 2, 1829, apparently for the year, we find that Rose 
used 700 gallons of distilled liquors ; that there were twenty habitual 
drunkards, eight cases of poverty, two crimes, one death, presumably 
owing to drink, and also the pleasing statement that the use of drink had 
diminished one-fourth. Had the same ratio of decrease continued, 
our town had become, long ere this, the most abstemious in the couatry. 

It is in place to recall other officers as follows : Chauncey Bishop con- 
tinued to be vice-president till 1832, when he was succeeded by Jacob 
Miller, then Dorman Munsell, Joel N. Lee, and finally Chauncey Bishop 
again. The treasurers were Smithfield Beden, Peter Valentine, Alfred 
Lee and Gideon Henderson. Secretaries, James S. Showers, Smithfield 
Beden, Truman Van Tassel, C. B. Collins and George Seelye. In addition 
to the first board of managers, already givea, were Alfred Lee, George 
Seelye, Elizur M. Ballard, Samuel Lyman, Caleb Mills, James S. Showers, 
Thaddeus Collins, Samuel Buckman, L. Leland, Anson Lee, Martin 
Warner, Jacob Miller, Samuel E. Ellinwood, Wm. Lovejoy, Chauncey 
Bi-shop, Wm. Griswold, Joel N. Lee, E. N. Thomas, C. B. Collins and 
Dorman Munsell. These more than fifty years old records have a wonder- 
fully sincere appearance. The people who made them were in earnest. 
Their society became auxiliary to that of the county, the members met, 
listened, discussed and did what they thought their best to suppress a 
ruinous practice. They appointed parties to labor in their respective 
school districts for the good of the cause ; still the evil lived on and, like 
the master of all evil, is rampant to-day. The meetings were held in the 



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various school-houses of the town, and were regularly opened and closed 
with prayer. 

Names are always significant and here are those of the people who 
signed the constitution of the society. Those who were expelled or wished 
to have their names erased are here with the others. In the dim light 
afforded by so many years, all are much the same. For the sake of con- 
venience, they have been arranged alphabetically. Possibly, had women 
been admitted to management, the society had lasted longer, for it is the 
feminine contingent that keeps the temperance cause in the forefront 
to-day. The names of oflicers are not repeated in the list and the family 
name is given but once : Aldrich — Amos, Asahel ; Allen — Aldula, Betsey, 
Mercy, Rebecca, Winthrop; Andrews — Clarissa, Lydia ; Andrus — Eliza- 
beth, James; Matilda Baker; Lany Baird ; Maria Baldwin; Barber — 
John, Jr., Laura; Ann Barnum; Barrett — Simeon I., Tamar ; Lydia 
Bassett; Batt^ — Amanda, Collins, Samuel G., Wm. ; Beden — Amanda, B. 
G., Rebecca, Seth X., W. M. ; Bishop— Caudace, Charles, Charity, Ghloe, 
D. W. C, Eliza H., Harriet, Jerusha, Joel, Jr., Reuben, Zemira; Blaine 
— Abia, Fanny, Mary E., Sarah J., William ; Blodgett — Luke W., Mary ; 
Cynthia Boyd: Boynton — Abigail, Benjamin, Hannah, Minerva; Rufus 
C. Brainard ; Maria Briggs ; Brown — James, Mercy, Nancy M. ; Clarissa 
Buckman ; Bandy — Eliza, Phoebe, Sally; Burns — Achsah, Ann. Clara, 
Elisha, Olive ; Maria Busby ; Chaddock — Caroline, William ; Chapin — 
Ferzah M., Harriet; John Chidester ; Harvey Closs ; Colborn — James, 
Jonathan ; Collins — Catharine, Clarissa, Esther, Harriet ; Craft — Clarissa, 
Jacob, Lydia ; Cyrus Crippen ; Elizabeth Deady ; Dean — Daniel, Prudence 
J.; Ellin wood — Charlotte, Chester, David, Ensign, Lucy L., Mary, 
Sophronia, Submit ; Ellsworth — Jerusha, Jonathan ; Fairbanks — Cornelius 
W., George, Jane; Fisher — Elizabeth, Rebecca; Roxy Flint; Foster — 
Abigail, David, David, Jr., Emma; Fulton — Hannah, Mahala, Margaret 
I., Martha, Robert. Peter; Gardner — Ansel M., Esther Ann, Polly 
Gillett — Abram, Gardner, Hosea, Moses, Phcebe ; Sherman Goodwin 
Graham — Henry, Roxeany ; Grant — Benjamin, Patty; Gray — Deborah 
Eleanor B., Harvey; Griswold — Lewis, Rebecca; George Hamilton 
Hand — Clarissa, Mary ; Henderson — Charlotte, Deborah, Eveline, George 
W. ; Julia Hillcox ; Hinman — Enos, Mary ; Hoag — Elisha, Losina 
Holmes — Amanda, David ; Elizabeth Home ; Howard — Esther, Happy 
Hosea, Mary Ann, Wm. C. ; Catharine Hultz ; Aurilla Hush ; Jonathan 
Hutchinson; Hyde — John, Mary Ann, Sally; Jeffers — Nathan, William 
Knight — Eliza G., Enoch; Sylvauus Lackey; Lake — Adaline W., Betsey 
Charles, Ira; Lamb — Asahel H., Hiram, Ira, Jane, Lorenzo, Lorilla L. 
Louisa L., Perez, Peter, Sally; Polly Lampson: Lee — Alfred C, Betsey 
Laurissa, Mary N. ; Perus Leland ; Angeline Louue ; Lovejoy — Anna 
Daniel, Esther, Harriet, Maria Jane, Norman, Perliette, Silas, Sophia 



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Lumbert^-Jabez, Eachel ; Lyman— Caroline, Clementina, Levi A., Sally 
Thomas J. ; Lyon— Frederick, Moses ; B. F. McCumber ; Marietta 
McKoon ; McQueen— Clarissa Ann, Orena ; Mason— Harvey, Julia, Rhoda 
D. ; Miller— Amy, Caroline, Daniel, Eliza; Mills— Betsey, George W., 
Huldah; Miner— Harvey, Prentice J.; Mirick— George W., Mary, 
Thomas ; Mary Mitchell ; Moore— Orrin, Sally ; Morris— Lewis, Lovina ; 
Sarah Morse; John Mosier ; Anna Mott; Munsell— Emeline, Gavin L., 
Jerusha ; John Ogram ; Osborn— Edwin, Martha, Warren ; Samuel Otto; 
Pease— Alanson, Charlotte, Merrill; Preston— Joseph, Nabby, Tabitha; 
Lucy Proctor ; Zena P. Rich ; Relief Richardson ; Eiggs— Charlotte, 
Gowan ; Roe— Austin, Catharine, Daniel J., Sarah ; Seelye— Delos, Eliza- 
beth, Louisa ; Benjamin Severance ; Patty Seymour ; Shepherd— Aaron, 
Polly; Simmons— G. F., Lydia F. ; Truman Skidmore ; Charles Skut ; 
Smith— Chauncey, Melissa ; Sarah Squier ; Stewart— Ann Eliza, Lydia; 
Swift— Anna, Selam ; Thomas— Caroline, Wm. H. ; Town— Asa, Emily, 
Hannah ; Nancy Tucker ; Twomley— George, Martha, Mary Ann ; Valen- 
tine—Anne, Asahel I., James VanAuken; Van Horn— Matthias, Prox- 
ena ; Elizabeth Vandercook ; Van Tassel— Abraham, Jerusha ; Van 
Valkenburgh— Abram, Deborah ; Vary Van Vleck ; Minerva Van Zile ; 
Wade— George W., Jesse O., John, John W., Wm. D. ; Barbara Walker; 
Ward— Eli, Esther M., Mary, Mary Ann; James C. Warn; Warner- 
George L., John, Nancy, Sally B.; Whitney— Caroline, Lucy L., Sarah, 
Solomon ; Luana Wilder ; Wilson— Henrietta, Jonathan ; Eve Winchell ; 
Wisner- Charles, Elizabeth, Jesse, Moses ; Solomon Wren ; Susannah 
Wyckoff. 



SOCIETIES. 

GOOD TEMPLARS. 

There is to-day a lodge of Good Templars in Eose Valley, and its mem- 
bers are zealous for good. Organized in June, 1888, the first chief 
templar was Jared Chaddock, and to him have succeeded Thirza Milem, 
Rose Stubley, Truman Desmond, Florence Niles, George Harper, George 
Chatterson and Almon Harper. From the beginning, there have been in 
all 175 members of the order. The good that has been done can never be 
told. Many young people have here received a stimulus to active opposi- 
tion to the drink curse. 

NORTH ROSE. 

The lodge, in this village, No, 696, I. O. G. T., was organized April 17, 
1887, by Dr. Diamond, special deputy. Mrs. Sarah Seelye was the first 
chief templar, and Ara Barnum was deputy. Since then the following 
have filled the office of C. T., viz., I. R. Seelye, Cora Skut, C. W. Oaks, 
E. E. Brewster. Wm. Thompson, Charles Barrick, E. J. Weeks, T. J. 
Chaddock and Bert Oaks. The maximum membership was reached in 
1890, when the lodge numbered 109 persons. In 1890 it built, at a cost of 
$700, the hall on Caroline street, an ornament to the village. 

ROSE BRASS BAND. 

Our town was ever musical. Church music of excellent quality has been 
a distinguivShing charactei-istic of all the denominations. It is no wonder, 
then, that a band should have been formed early. In 1857, August 14, an 
organization was effected with Daniel B. Harmon as leader, E. C. Ellin- 
wood, clerk, Joel Sheffield, secretary and treasurer. In the following 
Sejjtember, the 15th, Mr. Sheffield resigned, and C. A. Lee was chosen to 
fill the vacancy, and he continued in it till his enlistment in 1862. Z. P. 
Deuchler, of Lyons, was the first instructor, and after one year became a 
member. After him, for a year, E. B. Wells, then of Lyons, taught. 
Prom 1857 to August 20, 1862, when the band enlisted, the membership 
was as follows: * Daniel B. Harmon, Carroll H. Upson, Eugene Hickok, 
E. C. Ellinwood, * Alfred B. Harmon, * Charles A. Lee, * Ira Soule, 
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Walter A. Wilson, *W. F. Hickok, Andrew Healy, *Ira T. Soule, Z. P. 
Deuchler, E. B. Wells, * R. C. Earless, John Fosraire, Joel Sheffield and 
* William Harmon. The starred names indicate enlistments. At this time 
Jacob Sager of Clyde enlisted and joined, and our boys became the nucleus 
of the famous Ninth Heavy Artillery Band, and how they could play 
" Belle Brandon ! " 'Tis said that " Jake " once started Old Hundred as 
a marching tune at a funeral and switched off into " The Dead March in 
Saul," only when the surgeon, unable to make his horse keep step, shouted 
back : " What kind of a tune do you call that ? " Then he was overheard 
saying: "I thought I could march to anything, but I'll be d — d if I can 
catch ou to the Doxology.'' The War over, the "boys" came home, 
having escaped all the perils of the deadly fray. 

In 1S70 five members of the old band formed with others a new organiz- 
ation, which continued till 1884, and then disbanded after the Presidential 
contest. So many members went away from Eose, it was found impossible 
to continue. In 1870 Captain Daniel B. Harmon was leader, and he was 
succeeded in 1874 by Andrew J. Dougan. The members from 1870 to 1884 
were A. B. Harmon, Ira T. Soule, Stephen Soule, Duane Armstrong, Ira 
Soule, James Race, Eugene Hickok, William Felton Hickok, Valorous 
Ellinwood, Lcvern Wilson, A. J. Dougan, Edson M. EUinwood, Fletcher 
Bush, Lycurgus Hart, Charles Benjamin, Seymour Benjamin, Henry 
Turner, Judson Sheffield, Mortimer Leach, G. A. Sherman, I. L. Wright, 
E. B. Wilson, George Fry, Constance Kunkel, George McWharf, W. 
D. Hickok, Charles Redding, Frank Proseus, Charles G. Oaks, Frank 
Mitchell and Emil Kunkel. Of this list Race and Dougan were in the 
army, and in the former list, Fosmire and Deuchler also were soldiers. 
The memory of the Rose Band is a pleasant one. From first to last, it had 
forty-one different members. Thirty-six are now living. Of the original 
nine members of the first organization, all are living save Walter A. 
Wilson. 

MASONIC. 

Freemasonry in Rose dates from 1865. Previous to this time members 
of the order had gone to adjacent towns for lodge meetings. The warrant 
of Rose Lodge, No. 590, is dated June 22, 1866, issued to certain parties 
who had worked under dispensation for one year. The charter members 
were James M. Home, M. T. Collier, Lucius H. Dudley, John J. Dickson, 
George Catchpole, Seymour Covell, Eugene Hickok, Seymour Woodard, 
James Covell, Samuel Gardner and P. Jerome Thomas. The first meetings 
were held in the brick building on Thomas street, now a shop. Subsequently 
excellent quarters were arranged for the lodge over E. N. Thomas' store, 
and the same are still retained. They are commodious and comfortable, 



ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 371 

and many scores of Rose dwellers have here taken the first three degrees. 
The first W. M. was James M. Home, and few men have ever filled that 
position with more grace and dignity. He continued to adorn the office 
till 1870, when James W. Colborn was inducted, and was W. M. for two 
years. Henry Klinck, of ever pleasant memory, followed for the year 
1872. Then came Mark T. Collier for four consecutive years, and again in 
1879. George Catchpole presided in 1877-8 ; Edson M. Ellinwoodin 1880 ; 
Valorous Ellinwood, in 1881-2, and again in 1891-2 ; Alfred Lefavor held 
the first office in 1883-4-5-6, and Enos T. Pimm was W. M. from 1887 to 
1890, and again in 189S his name heads the list. For many years Eugene 
Hickok has been the careful and efficient secretary. 

ODD FELLOWSHIP. 

North Rose possesses an organization of I. O. O. P., known as Bay Shore 
Lodge- The present K. G. is Elmer Mitchell. It is said to be in a very 
flourishing condition. 

GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC. 

Very soon after the close of the late War, there was organized in Rose a 
Post of this beneficent order, but it suspended a long time ago. In 1883, 
September 28th, a new Post was started, having eighteen charter members, 
and was named the John E. Sherman Post, Xo. 401, after a Rose member 
of the 111th, slain in the "Wilderness. The first commander was E. H. 
Cook, M. D., a member of the 75th. Then in 1884-5-6, E. T. Pimm 
followed, a member of the 9th Heavy. H. P. Howard of the 9th, also, 
followed in 1887. Jared Chaddock of the 67th commanded in 1888. 
Harvey D. Barnes, a 44th veteran, was at the head in 1889-'90. In 
1891 and 1892, E. T. Pimm again led, and W. F. Hickok was installed 
commander for 1893. For many years the Post meetings were held in 
Pimm's Hotel, but in 1892 the Post was given quarters in the Memorial 
hall. 

SONS OF VETERANS. 

A Camp of Sons of Veterans, known as the Nelson Neeley Camp, was 
instituted March 15, 1893, with C. J. Earless as captain. Meetings are 
held in G. A. R. hall. 



372 EOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 

ROSE GRANGE. 

This farmers' organization, No. 148, was organized in March, 1874, with 
Henry C. Klinck, master, and Linus P. Osgood, secretary. It flourished 
for three years, surrendering its charter April 1, 1877. Oscar Weed was 
the second master, and Henry Klinck, second secretary. The other masters 
in order were : W. F. Hickok and Eugene Hickok ; the secretaries, 
Eugene Hickok and Frank H. Valentine. The total membership was 
thirty-eight. Many of these people now belong to the Clyde Grange. In 
a community so agricultural in its characteristics, it would seem that a 
grange ought to have a permanent home. 



ROSE NEWSPAPER. 

The Eose Timts was started September 15, 1886, by Burt E. Valentine, 
this being the first venture of the kind in town. It was a modest sheet, 
two columns, four pages, semi-monthly. December 15, 1886, the young 
editor enlarged his paper to four columns and eight pages, having his office 
over his father's store. His paper flourished, and a larger press was 
bought, and March 1, 1887, he moved into the old post office building of 
" 'Squire " Ellinwood. The paper then had seven columns and four pages, 
weekly, the subscription being one dollar per year. A little before this C. 
J. Earless had started the Farmer^s Counsel, and January 1, 1888, aunioa 
of the two papers was effected under the name of the Farmer^ s Counsel and 
Times. March 1, 1889, Mr. Valentine went out, and with G. A. Sherman, 
set up a job office. The paper continued in the hands of Mr. Earless, who 
still publishes it. The press upon which this paper is printed is specially 
noteworthy, since it is the very one on which John H. Gilbert worked off 
the first edition of the Book of Mormon. The identity of the press is 
established beyond a question. Let us hope that it is now doing better 
service than when sending out the delusions of Joe Smith. 



CENSUS GLEANINGS. 

These data are given to show, to some extent, the growth and develop- 
ment of Rose. Unfortunately, after 1840, the national census was not 
collated by towns, but by counties, thus rendering it impossible to secure 
the desired facts, and in 1830, the government sought only population 
items. Again the omission to take the state census in 1885 left a large 
defect in our data ; that of 1892 was only an enumeration of people. 
However, some interesting items are brought out in the figures presented. 
The croaker about old times finds that crops have not particularly changed 
in quantity. My own regrets are entirely over what is not shown, rather 
than on account of what is. The development of berry culture does not 
appear. The evaporating of apples and other fruits has no place, and the 
growing of onions, one of the town's chief industries, has no mention what- 
ever. Tobacco, also, would come in as a great factor. The state census 
of 1895 will be a valuable supplement to these facts. In 1864, the town 
paid out $244.31 for manures and fertilizers ; in 1874, the amount paid for 
the same object was .$2,367, and I am told by competent informants that in 
1892, the amount must have been more than double the latter sum. Some 
of the gleanings of the early census takings, while not appearing in the tabu- 
lations, are very interesting. Thus, in 1835, the first state enumerating 
after the town was organized, I find that Rose had one gristmill, and 
that it ground grain to the value of $11,250. In 1845, there was still but 
one mill and its work was only a trifle greater. In '35, there were seven 
saw-mills, cutting up logs worth $2,172, to make lumber worth $4,450. In 
'45, there were eleven mills, sawing •$ 2,400 worth of logs into $4,900 value 
in product. One fulling mill, in '35, turned .$2,625 worth of wool into 
$5,250 worth of manufactured goods. In '45, the same mill's work was 
$2,000 raw into -$4,000 manufactured. One carding machine, in 1835, 
rolled $3,000 worth of wool into $3,750 worth of spinning material. In '45, 
the record was $3,000 and $3,500 respectively. One iron working plant, 
in '35, transformed $2,000 in ore into $5,000 in product. In the same year 
an ashery worked over $350 worth of wood ashes. One distillery is said 
to have changed $2,700 in solids into $4,300 in liquids. A tannery, in 
1835, worked over $600 worth of hides into $1,200 worth of leather. In 
'45, the record was the same. In 1835, there was not in Rose, a deaf and 
dumb, blind, idiotic nor lunatic person. In 1845, there were one deaf and 



374 EOSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 

dumb, two idiotic and two lunatic. In 1845, Rose had two inns, two stores, 
330 farmers, 63 mechanics, five clergymen, whose total salaries were 
$1,150, and three doctors. In 1838, Eose had 166 militiamen, her schools 
numbered 11, and there were 629 pupils, for whom the town drew $173.53 
public money. In 1893, the amount drawn from the same source is 
$1,946.50. In 1830, the town had 29 people of foreign birth and 573 chil- 
dren between 5 and 16 years of age. In 1845,- there were 56 foreigners and 
615 children, as before. In 1855, Rose had 329 owners of land and 435 in 
1865. The record of illiteracy has always been excellent. In 1840, there 
were 101 persons above 21 years of age who could not read nor write. In 
1855, this number was reduced to 34, and 1865 showed but 28. In 1840, 
the value of orchard products was $1,504. In that year dairy products 
yielded $6,054. In 1875, there were sold 214,195 lbs. of pork, while in 
1865, 7,550 lbs. of tobacco are reported raised. Turnips appear only 
once and then in 1845, when 11^ acres produced 2016 bushels. In 1840, 
there were reported made 180 lbs. of wax, presumably beeswax, and in the 
same year the people sold 2,122 cords of wood. 
The population record of the town is as follows : 

1830—1,641 1850—2,264 1875—2,215 

1835—1,715 1855—2,115 1880—2,244 

1840—2,031 1860—2,119 1890—2,107 

1845—2,060 1865-2,209 1892—2,002 
1870-2,056 

The maximum, it is observed, was reached in 1850, or just 53 years ago. 
There are more families in Rose, to-day, than then, but they are not so 
large. The children do not appear. While the number of people is not 
so large as in some towns of less area, it must be borne in mind that with 
crowded masses there is also coiTCsponding misery. 

In the following scheme, I have not attempted to glean valuations from 
the assessors' returns, for these, subject to the changes of the Board of 
Supervisors, fluctuate too much. 



KOBE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 

Census Tables. 



375 





1835 
324 


1840 


1845 


1855 


1865 


1870 


1875 


Voters. 




469 


438 


566 






Families. 








419 


473 




536 


Improved land, acres. 


6913 




10473 


132721 


13199* 


14444 


17042 


Unimproved land, acres. 








8577 






4938 


Cash value of farms. 








.$831771 


$1051268 


$1497800 


$1496065 


Cash value of stock. 








$125870 


.$154295 


$191245 


$164852 


Cash vahie of tools and implem'ts. 








§18091 


$26663 


In farm 


$53141 


Apples, bushels. 








28535 


39284 




76117 


Cider, barrels. 








399 


739 




1118 


Rarlev ' acres. 
Barley, -^ ^^,gj,gig_ 






541 


311 


429j 




386 




383 


222 


6013 


3558 




7368 


Butter, pounds. 






71697 


66330 


98242 




83061 


Cheese, pounds. 






16257 


7075 


12046 




1285 


Milk, ga Ions sold. 














46236 


Pnrn 1 aCrCS. 

^°'^°' 1 bushels. 






1065i 


150464 


1805 




1601 




20866;22700 


40035 


41767 




50498 


Wa^ 1 acres. 
^'^^' \ pounds. 






131^ 




41 








2500 


2869 










TT„,, 1 acres. 
H^J' \tonB. 








19084 


2437 








1863 




1724^ 


2308 


2901 


3909 


TT„„„ f acres. 
HoPS'l pounds. 










5 
3400 




5 

3109 


Honey, pounds. 








4722 


1964 




4804 


Maple sugar, pounds. 




5904 




446 


442 




6 


OatB, {Se,,. 




821 


1760^ 


1888* 




1765 




1758825477 


44266 


25708 




58012 


P°t-*-s,{-Xj^. 






2555 


1843 


204* 




284 




27078 


28455 


13246 


20355 




29574 


w-iro ' acres. 
^y®' \ bushels. 






84J 


72 


44* 




34 




391 


687 


885 


140 




466 


Stock, {-X^3. 


1545 


1878' 1905 


2057 


1816 




1539 


473 


519 


556 


754 


750 




894 


Poultry, value sold. 




«830 




$1050 


$2265.25 




$3136 


Eggs, value sold. 








$2503 


$3789.97 




$4111 


Sheep. 


2405 


4385 i 4702 


3727 


4583 




1644 


Swine. 


1733 


1950 


1381 


1241 


1395 




1709 


\^^;„„ ' acres. 








10 


1 






Wheat, -'P""^'"^ bushels, 
[winter, {-- ,. 








138 


45 










22721 


907i 


15243 




1759 




20376 23700 


8893 


19101 




30981 


Wool, pounds. 




6656,10736 


11856 


18794 




8679 


Buckwheat, { ^^'is. 




1957 


219 
3677 


311i 
3270 


151 
2531* 




289 
4168 


■c.„„„„ ( acres. 
^^^''^' \ bushels. 






16 
117 








21 
296 


Peas } acres. 
^®''^' t bushels. 






125 
1174 








12 

170 


Value of all productions. 












$2245.10 




Home made fulled cloth, yards. 


2433 




2453 


134 


12 






Home made flannel, yards. 


2407 




2994 


559 


175 






Home made linen, yards. 


2611 




3757 


57 


2255 






Home made cotton and mixed 
















goods, yards. 








95 









OFFICERS OF THE TOWN OF ROSE. 

" An act for erecting the southwest part of the Town of Wolcott into a 
separate town by the name of Rose in the County of Wayne. Passed 
February 25, 1826. 

" Be it enacted by the people of the State of New York, represented in 
Senate and Assembly, That from and after the first Monday of April next, 
all that part of the now town of Wolcott, in the County of Wayne, compre- 
hended within the following boundaries (viz.) beginning at the southwest 
corner of said town and running from thence east, on the south line thereof, 
seven miles ; thence north five miles, thence west seven miles, or until it 
strikes the division line between said town^and the town of Sodus ; thence 
south, and along the east line of the town of Sodus, to the place of begin- 
ning, shall be, and the same is, hereby erected into a separate town by the 
name of Rose, and that the first town meeting, to be holden therein, shall 
be held on the first Tuesday of April next, at the house of Charles Thomas, 
in said town." 

The above is a true copy of records. 

Attest, D. Smith, Town Clerk for 1826. 

MEMBEES OF ASSEMBLY. 

John J. Dickson, 1845 ; Willis G. Wade, 1854 ; Eron IS". Thomas, 1862 ; 
Jackson Valentine, 1877-8. 

WAYNE COUNTY OFFICERS. 

Sheriff, William J. Glen, 1879, '80, 81. 

School Commissioner, 1st district, Wayne county, Thomas Robinson, 
1863, '64, '65. 

Superintendent of Poor, Philander Mitchell, 1860, '61, '62; Charles 
Covell, 1883 to 1889. 

OFFICERS IN OLD TOWN OF WOLCOTT. 

Assessor and Collector, John N. Murray, 1810-11 ; John Wade, 1813. 
Commissioner of Highways, Joseph Wade, 1812-13 ; John Wade, Eli 
Andrus, 1814. 



r 




SURVIVING SUPERVISORS. 



a. C liLI.INWonn. 

M. (i. McKooN. 
S. W. Gagk. 

Gico. Ca I ( ni-ui.K. 



W. II. Gi<is;woi-i 
\V'. J. Glen. 



C S. Wkight. 

1 . S. SlIEFVIELD. 

1. M, IIOKNE. 
1- \'aL1:.N TINE. 



EOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 377 

SUPERVISORS. 

{Years Inclusive.) 

Peter ValcDtine, 1826, '27, '28, '29, '36, '37, '38 '39, '42; Philander Mitch- 
ell, 1830, '31, '32, '44, '45, '48, '49, '50, '56 ; Dorman Munsell, 1833, '40, 
'41 ; Thaddeus Collins, 1834 ; IraMirick, 1835 ; Eron N. Thomas, 1843, '51, 
'53 ; Elizur Flint, 1846 ; Hiram Mirick, 1847 ; Solomon Allen, 1852 ; 
Thaddeus Collins, 1854 ; Jackson Valentine, 1855, '59, '60, '61, '62, 
'63, '64, '65, '66, '67, '68, '69, '74, '75 ; Harvey Closs, 1857, '58 ; James 
M. Home, 1870, '71 ; Charles S. Wright, 1872, '73 ; Joel S. Sheffield, 
1876; William J. Glen, 1877 and part of '79; S. Wesley Gage, 1878 ; 
George Catchpole, part of 1879, '82, '83, '84, '87, '88, '89, '90 ; William H. 
Griswold, 1880, '81 ; Samuel Gardner, part of 1885 ; Chester Ellinwood, 
part of 1885, '86 ; Merritt G. McKoou, 1891, '92, '93. 

TOWN CLERKS. 

David Smith, 1826, '27, '28 ; Philander Mitchell, 1829 ; George Seelye, 
1830, '31 ; Eron N. Thomas, 1832, '33, '35, '36, '37, '39, '40, '41 ; Chaun- 
cey B. Collins, 1834, '38 ; Elijah F. Thomas, 1842, '43 ; Samuel Jones, 
1844, '45, '46 ; Henry G. Lyman, 1847, '49 ; Eichard S. Valentine, 1848 ; 
William Hickok, 1850, '51 ; Jackson Valentine, 1852, '53, '54 ; Willard 
Sherman, 1855, '56, '57, '58, '59, '60; J. B. Alexander, 1861, '62; B. 
Frank Sherman, 1863, '64 ; James M. Home, 1865 ; W. H. H. Valentine, 
1866, '67, '68 ; Eomaine C. Earless, 1869 ; Ira T. Soule, 1870 ; Valorous 
Ellinwood, 1871, '75, '76, '86, '87, '88, '89, '90; Lucien Osgood, 1872 ; 
Frank H. Closs, 1873, '74; Stephen W. Soule, 1877, '78, '79, '80, '81, '82, 
'83 ; Edgar F. Houghton, 1884 ; Judson J. Sheffield, 1885 ; Ezra A. Sher- 
man, 1891 ; Ephraim B. Wilson, Jr., 1892, '93. 

COLLECTORS. 

Thaddeus Collins, Jr., 1826, '27, '28 ; Harley Way, 1829 ; Orrin Lackey, 
1830, '31 ; John S. Cornwall, 1832; Asahel Gillett, 1833, '35; David Closs, 
1834 ; Jesse Lyman, 1836, '38, '42 ; Nathan W. Thomas, 1837 ; Nelson 
Griswold, 1839, '43 ; James Clapper, 1840 ; Not found, 1841 ; Abraham 
Ferguson, 1844 ; James W. Jeffers, 1845, '46 ; Cyrus Eoot, 1847 ; James 
W. Page, 1848 ; Charles S. Wright, 1849 ; William Vanderoef, 1850 ; Judd 
B. Lackey, 1851 ; William H. Thomas, 1852, '58, '59 ; Palmer E. Tindall, 
1853 ; B. Frank Sherman, 1854, '55, '56, '57 ; Lampson Allen, 1860 ; John 
H. Barnes, 1861 ; James Winchell, 1862 ; Jerome Thomas, 1863, '65, '66 ; 
Philander Mitchell, Jr., 1864 ; William J. Glen, 1867, '68, '69, '70, '71, 
'72 ; George Jeffers, 1873, '74, '78, 79 ; Henry P. Howard, 1875 ; Joseph 
S. Wade, 1876 ; Valorous Ellinwood, 1877 ; Frederick Eeam, 1880 ; A. 
J. Dougan, 1881 ; Levern Wilson, 1882, '83 ; Ensign D. Wade, 1884 ; 
Jared Chaddock, 1885 ; John Hill, 1886, '87, '88 ; Merritt G. McKoon, 
1889, '90; Edward Welsh, 1891, '92; Orrin Carpenter, 1893. 



378 EOSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 

ASSESSOES. 

James Colborn, 1826, '27, '28 ; Jeremiah Leland, 1826 ; Dorman Mun- 
sell, 1826, '27, '28, '35; Milbum Salisbury, 1827, '28; Thaddeus Collins, 
1829, '30, '31, '32 ; Nathan Jeffers, 1829, '30, '31, '32, '36 ; Jacob Miller, 
1829, '30, '33 ; Moses F. Collins, 1831 ; Elizur Flint, 1832, '39, '50 ; Ira 
Mirick, 1833 ; Thomas Colborn, 1833, '35, '37, '38, '40 ; Philander Mitch- 
ell, 1831, '39, '11, '12, '43, '46 ; Gideon Henderson, 1834 ; Joel N. Lee, 
1834 ; George F. Simmons, 1835, '36 ; William Briggs, 1836 ; Dudley 
Wade, 1837 ; Chester EUinwood, 1837, '38, '40, '41, '42, '44 ; Henry 
Graham, 1838, '40 ; George Seelye, 1839, '46 ; Valorous EUinwood, 1841, 
'43, '45, '48 ; Hiram Mirick, 1842, '43, '46, '51 ; Xelson Griswold, 1844, 
'45 ; Tunis Woodruff, 1844 ; Ovid Allen, 1845; George W. Mirick, 1847 ; 
Embury Finch, 1849 ; Seymour Covell, 1852, '59, '62, '65, '80, '83 ; Harvey 
Closs, 1853, '55, '56, '64, '73, '76 ; Charles B. Sherman, 1854 ; Ephraim 
B. Wilson, 1855, '58 ; Artemas Osgood, 1856, '57 ; Jonathan Briggs, 1857, 
'61, '67, '70 ; Gavin L. Munsell, 1860, '63 ; Lampson Allen, 1866 ; H. W. 
Levanway, 1868; William F. Hickok, 1869, '72; John M. Vandercook, 
1871, '74, '77 ; Oliver Bush, 1875, '78 ; Orrin Skut, 1879 ; Eustace Hen- 
derson, 1881 ; Lucien H. Osgood, 1882 ; Clayton J. Allen, 1884, '87 ; 
William H. Cole, 1885, '88, '91 ; Asher W. Seager, 1886, '89 ; Chester T. 
Sherman, 1890 ; Joel H. Putnam, 1892 ; Frank E. Henderson, 1893. 

COMMISSIONEES OF HIGHWAYS. 

Elizur Flint, 1826, '27 ; Robert Jeffers, 1826, '27 ; William Lovejoy, 
1826 ; Benjamin Haviland, 1827 ; Jacob Miller, 1828 ; John Tuck, 1828 ; 
Charles Thomas, 1828, '30 ; John Closs, Jr., 1829 ; Jacob Clapper, 1829, 
'39, 44 ; Asa Town, 1829 ; Dorman Munsell, 1830 ; Samuel Smith, 1830 ; 
Gideon Henderson, 1831 ; Joel N. Lee, 1831, '39 ; Michael C. Vandercook, 
1831, '32 ; Uriah Wade, 1832 ; John Bassett, 1832 ; Abia F. Baird, 1833 ; 
Andrew Longstreet, 1833 ; Abner Wood, 1833, '35 ; Charles B. Sherman, 
1834, '39, '41, '42 ; Nicholas Stansell, 1834 ; Harley Way, 1834 ; Tunis 
Woodruff, 1835, '36, "37, '38, '40, '41, '48, '51 ; William Briggs, 1835 ; 
Isaac Mills, 1836, '37 ; James Covell, 1836, '37, '38, '40, '41 ; John Q. 
Deady, 1838, '40, '44 ; Nathaniel Center, 1840 ; Harvey Closs, 1842 ; 
William Sebring, 1842, '43, '50 ; Ephraim B. Wilson, 1843; George D. 
Stewart, 1843 ; James Colborn, 1844 ; George Seelye, 1845, '49, '58 ? 
William A. Stewart, 1845, '47 ; John Jeffers, 1845, '54 ; George W. Mirick, 
1846 ; William Dodds, 1846 ; Orrin Skut, 1846, '56 ; Dudley Wade, 1852, 
'55 ; William S. Woodard, 1857, '60, '63 ; James E. Ferguson, 1853 ; 
James O. Hunn, 1854, '58 ; Eustace Henderson, 1861, '64 ; Henry P. 
Howard, 1862; George Catchpole, 1863, '66, '69 ; Charles Covell, 1865 ; 
Samuel Osborn, 1867 ; Joel S. Sheffield, 1868 ; John B. Roe, 1870 ; James 



ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 379 

C. Osborn, 1871, '74 ; Henry C. Klinck, 1872 ; Sidney P. Hopping, 1873, 
'76, '79; Thomas Bradburn, 1875, '78 ; Asber W. Seager, 1877, '80, '83 ; 
Linus P. Osgood, 1881, '84 ; Valorous Ellinwood, 1882 ; Fred'k Beam, 
1885, '88, '91 ; Samuel P. Thompson, 1886, '89 ; Ensign D. Wade, 1887, 
'90 ; Jay R. Dickinson, 1892 ; Andrew Andrus, 1893. 

OVERSEERS OF THE POOR. 

John Skidmore, 1826, '27, '28; Aaron Shepard, 1826, '27, '28; Alpbeus 
Collins, 1829, '30; Jacob Miller, 1829; Alfred Lee, 1830, '31, '32; 
Chauncey Bishop, 1831, '32, '34; David Foster, 1833; Harvey Gray, 
1833 ; Simeon I. Barrett, 1834 ; James Colborn, 1835 ; Henry Graham, 
1835, '37 ; Asahel Gillett, 1836 ; Stephen Ferguson, 1836 ; Nathan Jeffers, 
1837; William Griswold, 1838, '41, '42, '43 ; Abner Wood, 1838; (1839 
wanting) ; Austin Roe, 1840, '44, '45, '47 ; Jesse Lyman, 1840, '47, '51, 
'52, '53; Abraham Ferguson, 1841 ; Seth H. Brainard, 1842; John P. 
Chatterson, 1843 ; Alanson Worden, 1844, '45 ; Benjamin Seelye, 1845, '46 ; 
Tunis Wooodruff, 1846 ; William A. Pixley, 1848, '49 ; George Seelye, 
1848, '55, '56 ; Elizur Flint, 1849, '55, '56 ; Charles B. Sherman, 1850 ; 
Thaddeus Collins, 1850, '57 ; Arnold K. Rhea, 1851 ; Amos Aldrich, 1852 ; 
George W. Mirick, 1853 ; Amaziah T. Carrier, 1854 ; George W. Ellin- 
wood, 1854 ; John Barnes, 1857 ; Samuel B. Hoffman, 1858 ; Charles 
Woodward, 1858 ; Solomon Allen, 1859 ; Charles B. Sherman, 1859, '60, 
'61, '66, '67, '68, '69 ; Dudley Wade, 1860, '61, '62, '64, '65, '67, '71 ; 
George Catchpole, 1862 ; N. Kendrick Sheffield, 1863 ; William Osborn, 
1863, '64; Henry Levanway, 1865, '66; Philander Mitchell, Jr., 1868, 
'69, '70, '71, '72, '73, '74 ; William Vanderoef, 1870, '78 ; Alouzo Snow, 
1872, '81, '82 ; William H. Thomas, 1873, '74, '75, '76, '77, '83, '84, '86, 
'87 ; Frederick Ream, 1875, '76, '77 ; William Chaddock, 1878 ; Joseph 
S. Wade, 1879 ; Alvin Barnes, 1879 ; John H. Winchell, 1880, '81; Henry 
Garlick, 1880 ; Harvey Closs, 1882 ; Charles Jeffers, 1883, '84, '88, '89, 
'90 ; Abram Covell, 1885 ; Birney Briggs, 1885 ; August Hetta, 1886 ; 
Jay R. Dickinson, 1887, '88, '89, '90 ; Judson Chaddock, 1891 ; Darius 
Lovejoy, 1891, '92, '93 ; James E. Vanderoef, 1892, '93. 

JUSTICES OF THE PEACE. 

Previous to 1830 appear the names of Erastus Fuller, Elizur Flint, 
Philander Mitchell, Charles Richards, Dorman Munsell and Peter Valen- 
tine. Alpheus Collins, 1830 ; Thaddeus Collins, 1831, '37 ; Elizur Flinf, 
1831, '34; Philander Mitchell, 1832, '36, '43, '47, '59, '63 ; John Barber, Jr., 
1833; John J. Dickson, 1835, '38, '41, '48, '52; Dorman Munsell, 1835; Wm. 
Briggs, 1836, '40; Chauncey B. Collins, 1838, '42, '53; (1839 wanting) ; 



380 EOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 

Orrin Skut, 1844 ; Harvey Closs, 1844 ; Hiram Salisbury, 1845 ; George 
W. Ellinwood, 1845, '56, '64, '69, '73, '77 ; Henry E. Youngs, 1846, '50 ; 
Truman Spencer, 1851, '55 ; James Shipman, 1852 ; Peter Shear, 1854, 
'58, '62; Nelson Griswold, 1856; Palmer E. Tindall, 1857, '61; E. 
Darwin Dickinson, 1865, '71 ; Joel H. Putnam, 1866, '70, '74; James B. 
Aldrich, 1867, '71 ; S. Wesley Gage, 1868 ; Wm. M. Osborn, 1872 ; 
George Aldrich, 1872 ; Eomain H. Cole, 1875 ; Eomain C. Earless, 1876, 
'80, '93 ; Samuel W. Lake, 1877, '78, '90 ; Eobert C. Taylor, 1877 ; Irwin 
Seelye, 1879; Charles G. Oaks, Jr., 1879, '83 ; Joseph S. Wade, 1881, '85, 
'89; E. Piatt Soper, 1882, '87; James W. Colborn, 1884; Eugene Davis, 
1885 ; Lueien H. Osgood, 1888 ; Alexander Skut, 1891 ; Frank E. Soper, 
1892 ; Thomas B. Welch, 1893. 

CONSTABLES. 

Thaddeus Collins, Jr., 1826, '27, '28; Lewis Leland, 1826; Harley 
Way, 1827, '28, '29 ; Samuel Johnson, Jr., 1827, '30, '33 ; Charles Lake 
1828, '29 ; Warren Osborn, 1829 ; Orrin Lackey, 1830 ; Asahel Gillett 

1830, '33, '35 ; John D. Winchell, 1831, '32 ; Cornelius W. Fairbanks 

1831, '32; John S. Cornwall, 1832; Dudley Wade, 1833; David Closs 

1834 ; Joel Bishop, 1834, '36 ; John Springer, 1834 ; Henry H. Ferris 

1835 ; Jesse Lyman, 1835, '36, '37, '38, '41, '42, '43 ; Lewis H. Lowns 
bury, 1836, '37 ; Nathan W. Thomas, 1837, '38 ; George F. Caguin, 1838 
(1839 wanting) ; James Clapper, 1840 ; David We.st, 1840, '46 ; Palmer 
E. Tindall, 1840, '41, '44, '53 ; William Vanderoef, 1840, '50 ; Harrison 
D. Eeynolds, 1840; Nelson Griswold, 1841, '43; Abraham Ferguson, 

1842, '44, '45 ; William Ellsworth, 1842, '54, '57 ; Daniel C. Alexander; 

1843, '44, '45, '60 ; James W. Jeffers, 1845, '46, '48 ;. Amaziah T. Carrier, 
1846; James W. Page, 1847, '48; Cyrus Eoot, 1847; John M. Town, 
1848, '49; Orrin J. Wiley, 1849; Martin Ehinehart, Jr., 1849; James 
Shipman, 1850 ; Truman Spencer, 1850 ; Columbus Collins, 1850 ; Judd 
B. Lackey, 1851 ; Seymour Covell, 1851 ; William H. Thomas, 1851, '58, 
'59; Henry Garlick, 1852; George Woodruff, 1852; Albert H. Wright, 
1852, '53 ; Eli Garlick, 1853 ; John H. Blynn, 1853 ; B. Franklin Sherman, 
1854. '55, '56, '57 ; John F. Jenks, 1854, '55 ; James E. Winchell, 1854, 
'55, '60, '61, '62, '63, '64 ; Daniel B. Harmon, 1854 ; Henry P. Howard, 
1856, '72, '73, '74, '75, '76 ; Darwin Dickinson, 1856 ; Joseph A. Waring, 
1857 ; John H. Barnes, 1858, '59, '60, '61, '71, '72, '76, '77, '78; Andrew 
Bradburn, 1858, '62, '68 ; Lampson Allen, 1859, '60 ; George W. Sherman, 
1859, '70, '78 ; Isaac Eace, 1861, '64 ; William A. Snyder, 1860 ; Lyman 
Wykoff, 1862 ; Stephen Weeks, 1862 ; P. Jerome Thomas, 1863 ; Philan- 
der Mitchell, Jr., 1863, '64; Eobert Jeffers, 1863; James H. Barnes, 
1864, '70, '79; William J. Glen, 1865, '67, '68, '69, '70, '71, '72, '73; 



ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 381 

Edward Horn, 1865, '66, '67, '68; Frederick Eeam, 1865, '66, '80; 
Alonzo Streeter, 1865, '66 ; Henry Goss, 1865 ; John Mabb, 1866, '67 ; 
Geor^'e W. Streeter, 1866 ; E. Piatt Soper, 1867 ; Jay Dickinson, 1867 ; 
Rollin C. Earless, 1868, '69 ; George Jeffers, 1868, '70, '71, '72, '73, '71, 
'75, '76, '77, '78, '79, '80, '81; Samuel W. Lape, 1869; Albert Sober, 
1870; Jared Chaddoek, 1871, '85 ; James H. Brisbin, 1872; H. Kenyon, 
1873; George Langley, 1873; Joseph S. Wade, 1871, '75, '76; Eliphalet 
Crisler, 1874 ; William H. Griswold, 1874 ; Luman Briggs, 1875, '76 ; 
Philander Griswold, 1875 ; Valorous Ellinwood, 1877 ; Cassius M. Shaver, 
1877, '82, '83, '84, '87, '89 ; Valentine Kaiser, 1877, '78, '79, '80, '81 ; 
Jacob L. Lyman, 1878, '79, 'SO, '88, '90, '91, '92, '93 ; Albion M. Gray, 
1879 ; S. W. Dunham, 1880 ; A. J. Dougan, 1881 ; Leland Johnson, 
1881, '91; Eugene Davis, 1881, '82; Levern Wilson, 1882, '83; John F. 
Decker, 1882 ; C. S. Dennis, 1882 ; Charles B. Sutherland, 1883 ; Myron 
J. Lamb; 1883, '84, '85, '86, '87, '88, '89, '90 ; Harmon Miner, 1883, '84, 
'91 ; Ensign D. Wade, 1884 ; Charles La Eock, 1884 ; Joseph Talton, 

1885, '87 ; William Miller, 1885 ; Frank E. Soper, 1885 ; John T. Hill, 

1886, '87, '88; J. H. Winchell, 1886; Orrin B. Carpenter, 1886 ; Charles 
Miner, 1886, '89, '90; William A. Holbrook, 1887, '88; Samuel Daven- 
port, 1888, '89, '90, '93 ; William H. Weed, 1889, '90 ; Edward Welch, 
1891; George E. Seager, 1891, '92; James E. Miner, 1892; Dell E. Van 
Antwerp, 1892, '93 ; Charles Seager, 1892 ; Edward A. Weeks, 1893 ; 
William B. Hill, 1893. 

INSPECTORS OF ELECTION. 

Thomas W. Warn, 1844, '45; Ezra Dann, 1844, '45; Nelson Griswold, 1844, 
'45, '46, '49, '51 ; Joel X. Lee, 1845 ; Matthias Van Horn, 1845 ; Eron :N'. 
Thomas, 1846 ; Samuel Lyman, 1846 ; Harvey Closs, 1847, '48, '52 ; David 
Holmes, 1847 ; Philetus Chamberlain, 1847 ; Elizur Flint, 1S4S ; Benjamin 
Hendricks, 1848 ; William A. Sebring, 1849, '55; Ephraim B.Wilson, 1849 ; 
DanielC. Alexander, 1850,'51,'52,'53,'54; RobertK. Andrews, 1850; Chaun- 
cey B. Collins, 1850; James Shipman, 1851; Jonathan Briggs, 1854,'55,'56; 
John Brown, 1856; Lorenzo N. Snow, 1856; William H. Thomas, 1857, '66; 
Henry C. Klinck, 1857, '59, '60, '05, '69, '71 ; Peter Harmon, 1857, '58 ; 
Jackson Valentine, 1858 ; Whiteman Brown, 1858 ; E. Darwin Dickinson, 
1859, '60 ; S. Wesley Gage, 1863, '65, '66 ; Avery Gillett, 1864 ; Joel S. 
Sheffield, 1864; John M. Town, 1866; Henry C. Eice, 1867; Eomain C. 
Earless, 1867 ; George F. Merritt, 1868 ; William F. Hickok, 1868 ; George 
Aldrich, 1868 ; Frank H. Closs, 1870, '72, '76, '77, '78, '82, '84 ; William 
Harmon, 1870, '83 ; Orrin L. Wykoff, 1870 ; Lampson Allen, 1871, '72 ; 
Ira T. Soule, 1873, '74, '75, '77, 'SO ; Lucien H. Osgood, 1873 ; Valorous 
Ellinwood, 1874 ; Linus P. Osgood, 1875 ; Edson M. Ellinwood, 1876, '80, 



382 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 

'81 ; John A. Smart, 1878 ; Ephraim B. Wilson, Jr., 1879, '85 ; Lyman 
Legg, 1879 ; Oliver L. Bush, 1879 ; Harvey J. Ferris, 1881, '83, '86, '87, 
'92 ; Jarit L. Wickwire, 1881, '85 ; Acielbert Sherman, 1882, '91, '92 ; 
Darwin P. Mitchell, 188-i ; Eugene Hickok, 1885 : Eugene Davis, 1885 ; 
Nelson R. Graham, 1885 ; Samuel H. Lyman, 1885 ; Levern Wilson, 1886, 
'87, '88 ; Eugene Brewster, 1886, '87, '88 ; George Miller, 1886 ; Merritt 
G. McKoon, 1886, '88 ; Andrew Andrus, 1886, '89, '90, '91 ; William J. 
Klinck, 1887 ; J. Darwin Marriott, 1887 ; James C. Osborn, 1887 ; Ezra A. 
Sherman, 1888 ; Seth C. Woodard, 1888, '89, '90, '91 ; Darius Lovejoy, 
1888 ; George L. Deady, 1889, '90 ; Dewey C. Putnam, 1889, '90 ; Frank 
Kellogg, 1889, '90, '91 ; William B. Hill, 1889, '90 ; Clarence N. Phillips, 

1891 ; Clayton B. Barless, 1891 ; Charles H. Garlick, 1891, '93 ; George 
L. Klinck, 1891 ; John Van Antwerp, 1891 ; Fred G. Goodenow, 1892, 
'93 ; Albion M. Gray, 1892 ; Stephen J. Shear, 1892 ; Charles W. Oaks, 

1892 ; Edwin A. Weeks, 1893 ; Tunis D. Tibbetts, 1893. 

COMMISSIONERS OF EXCISE. 

William M. Finch, 1877, '81 ; William F. Horton, 1878 ; William H. 
Vandercook, 1879, '82, '85 ; James A. Armstrong, 1880 ; Frank H. Closs, 
1883 ; Jeremiah H. Barrett, 1884 ; Ephraim B. Wilson, Jr., 1886 ; John L. 
Finch, 1887 ; Jackson Valentine, 1888, '91 ; Chester T. Sherman, 1889 ; 
Joel S. Sheffield, 1890, '93 ; Harvey J. Ferris, 1892. 

INSPECTORS OF COMMON SCHOOLS. 

Alpheus Collins, 1826 ; Peter Valentine, 1826, '27, '28, '29, '30, '31, '32, 
'34, '37, '42, '43; David Smith, 1826, '27, '28, '29; Samuel E. Ellinwood, 
1827, '34 ; Luman Putnam, 1828 ; Joel N. Lee, 1829, '30, '31, '32 ; Tru- 
man Van Tassel, 1830 ; Chauncey B. Collins, 1831, '32, '34, '38 ; John J. 
Dickson, 1833, '35, '36, '37, '38, '40, '41, '43 ; Nathan W. Thomas, 1833; 
John Barber, Jr., 1833; Eron M. Thomas, 1835, '36, '37, '40, '41 ; Ralph 
Fuller, 1835, '36, '38 ; (1839 wanting) ; William B. Williams, 1840 ; Ed- 
ward Lampson, 1841 ; Hiram Salisbury, 1842, '43. 

COMMISSIONERS OF COMMON SCHOOLS. 

Jacob Miller, 1826, '27, '28 ; James Colborn, 1826, '27, '28, '30, '37, '38 ; 
Milburn Salisbury, 1826, '27, '28 ; Elizur Flint, 1829 ; David Smith, 1829; 
Alpheus Collins, 1829 ; Dorman Munsell, 1830, '37 ; Peter Valentine, 
1830; John Wade, 1831, '32; Stephen Babcock, 1831, '32; Lewis L. Mor- 
ris, 1831, '32; Hiram Mirick, 1833, '35; Tunis Woodruff, 1833; Abia 
Blain, 1833, '36 ; George Seelye, 1834, '43 ; Samuel Lyman, 1834 ; John D. 



KOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 383 

Winchell, 1834 ; William Lovejoy, 1835 ; Michael C. Vandercook, 1835 ; 
Ira Mirick, 1836 ; Ealph Fuller, 1837; William Briggs, 1838 ; George W. 
Mirick, 1838, '11, '42; (1839 wanting); John Q. Deady, 1840 ; Harvey 
Closs, 1840; Samuel Chamberlain, 1840 ; Lorenzo Griswold, 1841 ; Joel N. 
Lee, 1842 ; Orrin Skut, 1842 ; Henry E. Youngs, 1843 ; Matthias Van 
Horn, 1843. 

SUPERINTENDENTS OF SCHOOLS. 

John J. Dickson, 1844; Peter Valentine, 1845, '46, '47, '48, '49, '50, 
'51 ; Eichard S. Valentine, 1852, '53, '54, '55 ; Henry Van Ostrand, 1856. 

TOWN SEALERS. 

John Bassett, 1830, '31, '34 ; Henry Graham, 1833 ; Joseph Seelye, 
1835, '36, '37, '38, '40, '44, '46; (1839 wanting) ; Elijah F. Thomas, 1841 ; 
Winship Allen, 1842; John Harmon, 1843; Fred. Eeam, Jr., 1845; Levi 
A. Lyman, 1847 ; James T. Jeffers, 1848 ; Jester L. Holbrook, 1849 ; 
Charles S. Wright, 1850 ; Palmer E. Tindall, 1851 ; Thomas H. Elliuwood, 
1852 ; Henry E. Eiker, 1853 ; Matthew Crisler, 1854, '55, '56 ; George W. 
Sherman, 1857 ; Judson Garlick, 1858, '65 ; William Vanderoef, 1859 ; 
Dudley Wade, 1860: C. H. Closs, 186 L; P. B. Decker, 1863; Eiley 
Miner, 1864. 

TOWN AUDITORS. 

Lucien H. Osgood, 1876. '77, '78 ; Lorenzo N. Snow, 1876, '77, '78. 

GAME CONSTABLES. 

Joseph S. Wade, 1872, '73 ; Dudley Wade, 1874, '75 ; Daniel C. Alex- 
ander, 1876 ; Eiley Miner, 1877 ; Cyrus A. Winchell, 1878, '80 ; W. K. 
Eider, 1879 ; Jeremiah Crisler, 1881, '82 ; William Holbrook, 1883, '85 ; 
Eollin C. Earless, 1884 ; Daniel Johnson, 1886, '89. '90 ; John Bounds, 
1887 ; Eichard Smith, 1888. 



ROSE IN THE REBELLION. 

Our town, in the great conflict, bore her part well. Her farmers' boys 
willingly forsook home and put on the blue. Many of them did not come 
back, but in national cemeteries, or in unknown graves, await the resurrec- 
tion. Our own burial grounds contain the remains of those who have 
passed away since the War was ended, save where the moving spirit of the 
age has taken the veterans to other sections. The small flag, above the 
mound in the cemetery, is a perpetual reminder of the patriotism and de- 
votion of him who slumbers beneath it. 

The basis of the following list is the Eose part of Mr. Lewis H. Clark's 
enumeration of Wayne county soldiers, in his " Military History," and I 
hereby render grateful acknowledgment for his kindness in permitting me 
to thus use it. In addition, I have certain lists prepared during the War, 
and through these I have ventured to vary, at times, from Mr. Clark's 
showing. I also have the record, prepared for the census of 1865, by Mr. 
Chauncey B. Collins. The adjutant general of the state says that Eose is 
credited with 218 enlistments, but the names of those thus enlisting are 
not given. From my papers I am able to secure nearly all of them ; such 
are designated by a star. All other names are those of parties who had 
been residents of Eose before the War, or who have come to the town since 
the strife was ended, and thus have a right to be included in our enumera 
tion. Having access to the muster rolls of Kew York, and also those of 
several other states, I have been able to fill out certain records otherwise 
incomplete. The history of the individual, •*. e., his wounds and career 
since the War, I do not attempt to give. Such facts, if properly presented, 
would make a book of themselves. Where I have been unable to secure 
the desired data, I have left the story untold, preferring a blank to a pos- 
sible error. 

It is due the town to state that no name is borne on this list against 
whose owner was laid the charge of bounty jumping or of desertion. In 
western regiments many a soldier did valiant service, whose early days 
were spent in Eose, but I have tried to indicate all of them. The page of 
illustrations is made of faces long since forgotten by many, but cherished 
fondly in one or more households. They are copies of copies in some 
cases, and that heart must be almost calloused that does not beat more 
rapidly at the sight of these features, recalling the boys who, nearly or 







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WAR MEMORIES. 



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W'lI.riAM (iF-NLNf.. WaT.LAIE Hl-AlKMAN. K/KA SUKKMAN. 

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ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 385 

quite thirty years ago, went down in the terrible storm ot war. Such boys 
as these made the rank and file of our army, and such as they won the 
victory. Can the nation be grateful enough? They died in the flush of 
youth ; we, their schoolmates and comrades, can only recall their heroism 
and pass the lessons of their deeds oa to our children. 

" The hand of the reaper grasps the ears that are hoary. 
But the voice of the weeper wails manhood in glory ; 
The autumn blast rushing, wafts the leaves that are serest, 
Our flower was in flushing when blighting was nearest." 

Explanatory. — All regiments, named, are from New York, unless otherwise 
specified. In complete records, the first date is that of enlistment, the second of 
discharge; d. stands for died, k. for killed, r. for retJnlisted, sub. for substitute, 
trmis. for transferred, w. for wounded, H. A. for Heavy and L. A. for Light Artil- 
lery, V. R. C, Veteran Reserve Corps. A star [*] indicates enlistment from Rose. 

*Albaugh, John, Aug. 15, '62 ; D, 9th H. A. ; Dec. 28, '63. 

Alexander, Charles H., Aug. 22, '62 ; E, 15th Penn. Cav. ; June 21, '65. 

♦Andrews, Joseph, Aug. 23, '62 ; H, 9th H. A. ; July 6, '65. 

Andrews, Rowland B., April 25, '61; B, 27th Inf.; w. June 27, '62, 

Gaines' Mill ; d. July 2, '62, Savage Station. 
*Angle, George W., Sept. 5, '61 ; D, 90th Inf. ; d. Tortugas, Sept. 25, '62. 
Angle, Lathrop, Dec. 15, '63 ; A, 9th H. A. ; Sept. 29, '65. 
♦Austin, Charles H., Sept. 3, '64 ; 3d L. A. ; d. Newburn, N. C, Nov. 2, '64. 
•Austin, Edmund G., June 30, '62 ; C, 111th Inf.; k. Wilderness, May 

5, '64. 
♦Babcock, Edward L., Aug. 12, '62 ; B, 111th Inf. ; June 4, '65. 
♦Earless, Eomain C, Aug. 21, '62 ; H, 9th H. A. ; May 29, '65. 
Barnes, Abram T., Dec. 15, '63 ; G, 9th H. A. ; trans. 2d H. A., June 27, 

'65 ; Sept. 29, '65. 
♦Barnes, Harvey D., Sept. 23, '61 ; K, 44th Inf.; Sept. 25, '64, from V. E. C. 
♦Barnes, James, Sept., '62 ; D, 9th H. A. ; July 6, '65. 
♦Benjamin, James E., July 22, '62 ; B, 111th Inf. ; June 4, '65. 
Bennett, William H., Aug. 5, '62 ; C, 111th Inf. ; June 4, '65. 
♦Berg, Miles P., July 30, '64 ; sub. for G. Lawson Munsell. 
Birdsall, William A., Feb. 24, '64 ; D, 111th Inf. ; Oct. 22, '64. 
♦Bishop, Chauncey E., Sept. 4, '64 ; E, 3d L. A. ; June 23, '65. 
♦Blackman, Wallace, Sept. 25, '61 ; D, 8th Cav. ; d. Feb. 19, '62. 
♦Blood, Newton S., Sept. 7, '64 ; E, 3d L. A. ; June 23, '65 
♦Blynn, Martin H., July 23, '62 ; 10th Cav. ; Lieutenant, Captain, Major, 

Brev. Lieut. Colonel ; June 17, '65. 
♦Bovee, Edward H., July 17, '62 ; D, 111th Inf. ; trans, to V. R. C. 
♦Bovee, George S., Nov. 13, '61 ; I, 98th Inf. ; r. Jan. 1, '64 ; Mar. 29, '65. 
Bovee, Heman, Jan. 16, '62 ; F, 105th Inf.; r. Jan. 1, '64, and attached to 

94th Inf. ; July 18, '65. 
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386 EOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 

•Bovee, William H., Aug. 1.5, '62; K, 9th H. A. 

Bowles, Frederick J., Feb. 18, '64 ; 111th Inf.; d. Washington, June 17, '64. 

•Bowles, James A., Aug. 21, '62 ; H, 9th H. A., 2d, 1st Lieutenant ; Mar. 

29, '65. 
*Bowles, John A., June 20, '61 ; D, 67th Inf.; r. '65. 

•Bowles, Jonadab J., June 8, '61 ; 67th Inf.; trans, to G, 2d U. S. L. A. 
Boyce, Dudley W., Sept. 15, '62 ; K, 9th H. A.; July 6, '65. 
•Boynton, Judson C, June 20, '61 ; D, 67th Inf.; Jan. 1, '63 ; r. Sept. 1, 

'64; H, 9th H. A.; July, '65. 
•Boynton, Philo D., June 20, '61 ; D, 67th Inf.; Aug. 19, '65. 
Bradburn, Peter W., Sept. 3, '64 ; unassigned, 9th H. A.; d. Feb. 5, '65, 

Frederick City, Md. 
•Brewster, Benj. D., Aug. 12, '62 ; H, 9th H. A.; June 28, '65. 
Brewster, Isaac O., Aug. 28, '62; C, 160th Inf.; k. Winchester, Sept. 19, '64. 
•Briggs, Birney, Aug. 25, '64 ; E, 3d L. A.; June 29, '65. 
•Brown, Byron, Aug. 12, '62; D, 9th H. A.; July 6, '65. 
•Brown, John, Aug. 30, '62 ; H, 9th H. A.; July 6, '65. 
•Brunney, James, Aug. 31, '64 ; 3d L. A.; '65. 
•Brunney, John, Aug. 9, '62 ; A, 9th H. A.; Dec. 4, '63. 
Bunyea, Francis M., May 10, '61 ; B, 27th Inf.; May 21, '63 ; r. Aug. 11, 

'63 ; Co. C, 21st Cav.; July 6, '66. 
Burns, George E., Dec. 14, '63 ; 9th H. A.; July 6, '65. 
•Burns, James W., Aug. 14, '62; D, 9th H. A.; July 6, '65. 
Campbell, Isaac G., April, '61 ; G, 34th Inf.; June 30, '63; r. 16th H. A. 
Carrier, Seward W., Oct. 22, '61; E, 10th Cav.; d. Baltimore, Aug. 

21, '62. 
•Chaddock, Jared, May 10, '61 ; D, 67th Inf.; June 20, '64. 
Chatterson, William Henry, May 2, '61 ; B, 27th Inf.; May 31, '63 ; r. B, 3d 

Wis. Inf.; '65. 
Church, James C, Oct. 8, '62 ; B, 8th Mich.; trans. Sept. 7, '63, V. E. C; 

March, '64. 
Colborn, Jonathan, May 25, '61; E, 17th 111. Inf.; k. Fort Donelson, 

Feb. 13, '62. 
Collins, Leonard, Oct. 4, '64 ; H, 9th H. A.; July 6, '65. 
Colvin, Asahel, '64 ; 111th Inf.; lost arm at Petersburg, July, '64. 
Colvin, Sidney T., Sept. 23, '64; K, 44th Inf.; r. Aug. 14, '62; H, 9th 

H. A., 2d Lieut.; Dec. 19, '64. 
Conklin, Morris, Dec. 24, '63; A, 9th H. A.; trans. 2d H. A.; Sept. 

29, '65. 
•Conroe, John, Aug. 8, '62 ; B, 111th Inf.; w. Wilderness, May 6, '64 ; d. 

May 26, '64, Fredericksburg. 
Correll, Nicholas, Aug. 1, '61; C,12th 111. Inf.; r. Jan. 1, '64; Oct. 6, '64. 
•Coster, Joseph, July 30, '64 ; sub. for William H. Dodds. 



ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 387 

•Coventry, William A., July 9, '63 ; C, 21st Cav.; June, 1865. 

Crisler, Jeremiah, May 4, '61; K, 33d Inf.; June 2, '63; r. Sept. 5, '64; 

M, 15th H. A.; June 13, '65. 
•Darling, Daniel, Aug. 15, '62; C, 111th Inf.; June 4, '65. 
•Dawson, John W., July31, '62; H, 111th Inf.; d., Washington, Nov. 5, '64. 
•Deady, Henry, Sept. 5, '62 ; H, »th H. A. 
•Deady, William N., June 20, '61 ; D, 67th Inf.; '62. 
•Delamater, Merrill, Aug. 12, '62; C, 111th Inf.; July 3, '65. 
Delamater, Stephen J., Sept. 25, '62 ; 25th Inf.; r. Sept. 13, '64 ; 91st Inf.; 

July 3, '65. 
•Desmond, William H., Aug. 5, '61; C, 111th Inf.; June 20, '65. 
•Deuel, Albert E., May 1, '63; H, 9th H. A.; July 6, '65. 
Devereaux, Spencer, Dec. 11, '63; G, 9th H. A.; trans. June 27, '65, to 

2d H. A.; Sept. 29, '65. 
•Dickinson, Jay R., Aug. 3, '64 ; E, 3d L. A.; June 23, '65. 
•Dickson, Ensign L., Sept. 18, '62; 26th Ind. Bat.; Sept. 12, '65. 
•Dickson, George, July 30, '62; B, lllth Inf.; k., Wilderness, May 5, '64. 
•Dixon, Abel, Jr., Aug. 22, '62; G, 9th H. A.; d., Washington, April 

29, '64. 
•Doremus, Abram, Aug. 30, '64; F, lllth Inf.; June 4, '65. 
Dougan, Jerome, Aug. 29, '64; I, 148th Inf.; June 23, '65. 
*Dowd, John, July 30, '64 ; sub. for Francis Osborn. 
Drown, Napoleon B., Oct. 19, '61 ; E, 10th Cav.; July 19, '65. 
•Drury, Frank, Aug. 23, '64; K, lllth Inf.; June 4, '65. 
•Dunbar, Levi H., Aug. 15, '62; D, 9th H. A.; July 6, '65. 
•Dunham, Andrew H., Aug. 25, '62 ; H, 9th H. A.; July 6, '65. 
•Dunn, Hiram. Given by Mr. Clark as in the 9Sth Inf. 
•Edwards, Charles, July 23, '64 ; sub. for M. T. Collier. 
Ellinwood, George E., Sept. 5, '64; 3d L. H.; June, '65. 
Ellis, L. R.; A, 3d L. A. Did not enlist from Eo.se. 
Feeck, Alonzo, Dec. 10, '63; H, 9th H. A.; d. Xov. 12, '64; Danville,Va., 

prisoner of war. 
•Feeck, William, Aug. 30, '64 ; lllth Inf.; June 3, '65. 
Ferris, Harvey J., Sept. 1, '64 ; K, 3d L. A.; June, '65. 
•Finch, Benjamin, July 27, '62 ; D, lllth ; April 21, '64. 
•Finck, Christian, Sept. 1, '64; F, lllth Inf.; June 6, '65. 
•Fitzgerald, Nicholas, Aug. 5, '62; C, lllth Inf.; d. July 19, '64, Ander- 

sonville, Ga., prisoner of war. 
•Fosmire, John, April, '61 ; B, 27th Inf.; June 2, '63. 
•Fosmire, William H., June 20, '61 ; D, 67th Inf.; July 4, '64. 
Fox, Philip, Feb. 4, '62 ; P, 98th ; March 29, '63. 
•Francis, John, July 30, '64 ; sub. for Lorenzo N. Snow. 
•Francisco, Jeremiah, Aug. 5, '62 ; C, lllth, Inf. 



388 KOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 

•Fuller, David L., Aug. 5, '62; C, 111th Inf.; k., Wilderness, May 6, '64. 
*Garratt, Richard, Jr., Aug. 21, '62 ; H, 9th H. A.; March 10, '63. 

*Genung, William D., Aug. 6, '62; B, 111th luf.; w. at Wilderness; d. 
May 13, '64, at Fredericksburg, Va. 

Gildersleeve, Porter, Dec. 30, '63; G, 9th H. A.; trans. 2d H. A.; Sept. 
29, '65. 

•Gillett, Avery H., Sept. 3, '64 ; N, 9th H. A.; June 15, '65. 

*Gillett, Charles, Sept. 9, '61 ; D, 90th Inf.; r. Feb. 20, '64 ; Feb. 9, '65. 

*Gillett, William B., Aug. 24, '62 ; H, 9th H. A.; July 6, '65. 

*Gillen, John, July 30, '64 ; sub. for Merwin S. Roe. 

Gragor, David G., Nov., '63 ; L, 14th R. I. H. A.; Oct. 2, '65. 

•Gregory, William, July 30, '64 ; sub. for Jackson Valentine. 

•Gross, Johu, July 30, '64 : sub. for Jerry Barrett. 

Hall, Melvin, Dec. 16, '63; A, 9th H. A.; trans. 2d H. A.; Sept. 29, '65. 

•Halley, Joseph, July 30, '64 ; sub. for William Desmond. 

•Hallinbeck, Martin F., July, '62; H, 9th H. A.; not beard from since 
enlistment. 

Hallinbeck, Richard I., Aug. 25, '62; H, 9th H. A.; May 23, '65. 

•Hand, Nathan B., Aug. 1, '62 ; C, 111th ;. r. Jan. 1, '64 ; May 15, '65. 

•Harmon, Alfred B., Aug. 21, '62 ; H, 9th H. A.; July 6, '65. 

•Harmon, Daniel B., Aug. 25, '62 ; H, 9th H. A., 2d and 1st Lieut., Cap- 
tain ; Nov. 16, '64. 

•Harmon, William J., Aug. 21, '62 ; H, 9th H. A.; May 23, '65. 

Harper, Alexander, Sept. 1, '64; H, 9th H. A.; July 6, '65. 

•Hart, Thomas R., Nov. 18, '61 ; K, 98th Inf.; Dec. 5, '62. 

•Hickok, William F.,Aug. 21, '62; H, 9th H. A.; trans. '64, C, 7th V. R. 
C; June 28, '65. 

•Hill, Erastus L., Aug. 19, '62; G, 9th H. A.; July 6, '62. 

•Hilts, Peter, Aug. 22, '62; H, 9th H. A.; July 13, '63. 

Holbrook, Jester L., March, '64 ; 111th Inf.; June 3, '65. 

Horne. Charles V., Aug., '64; H, ISSth Inf.; July 21, '65. 

•Home, William, Aug. 24, '62 ; G, 9th H. A.; July 6, '65. 

Horton, William O., April 25, '61; 7th Yt. Inf.; r. same reg.; July 
20, '65. 

•Howard, Henry P., Aug. 25, '62; H, 9th H. A.; July 14, '65. 

•Howard, John, Sept., '63; 111th Inf.; d. on rond from Salisbury, N. C, 
March 4, '65. 

Howes, Orrin, Aug. 16, '61 ; D, 44th N. Y.; May, '62. 

Hudson, Enos, Aug. 15, '62; D, 9th H. A.; July 6, '65. 
Hunn, Samuel C, Aug. 30, '64 ; 111th Inf.; June 3, '65. 

Hurd, George L., Aug. 22, '64 ; 3d L. A.; June, '65. 

Hurd, Norman R., Aug., '64; 3d L. A.; June, '65. 

Hurd, William H., Aug. 18, '64 ; B, 111th Inf.; March 13, '65. 



ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 389 

*Hurst, Charles R., April 19, '61 ; 3(1 L. A.; r. June 4, '63 ; H. 9th H. A.; 

Dec. 5th, '64. 
Hurter, Burkhart, Sept. 9, '61 ; D, 90th Inf.; r. Aug., '64 ; Feb.. '66. 
*Ingersoll, John J., Aug. 19, '62 ; G, 9th H. A.; July 8, '63. 
*Jenner, James J., May, '61 ; D, 67th Inf.; July 4, '64. 
*Jenner, Van Rensselaer, July 30, '62 ; B, 111th Inf.; Dec. 17, '63. 
* Johnson, David, Aug. 2.5, '62 ; G, 9th H. A.; July 6, '65. 
*Johnson, Robert, Sept., '61 ; E, 10th Cav.; July 19, '65. 
Kellogg, Ethan B., Aug. 25, '62 ; H, 9th H. A.; March 10, '64. 
Kimplaud, Rufus H., Sept. 7, '61 ; F, 98th Inf.; r. Feb., '64 ; Aug. 31, '65. 
*King, Thomas, Nov. 26, '61 ; B, 27th Inf.; Jan. 1. '63. 
Knapp, Henry. Mj-. Clark has him in H, 22d Cav.; fall of '62 ; dis. 

April, '65. 
*Kneely, Michael, Aug. 25, '62 : H, 9th H. A.; July 0, '65. 
*Knox, Charles E., Aug. 15, '62 ; D, 9th H. A.; July 6, '65. 
*Lake, Wellington, Aug. 12, '62; C, 111th Inf.; k.. Wilderness, May 

6, '64. 
•Lambert, Thomas, Jr., Oct. 25, '62 ; I, 98th Inf.; r. 1864; Aug. 31, '65. 
Lamoreaux, Sullivan B., Aug. 22, '62; F, 9th H. A., 2d, 1st Lieut., Captain, 

Major and Brev. Lt. Colonel ; Sept. 29, '65. 
*Lampson, Theodore, Aug. 15, '62 ; C, 111th Inf., 2d Lieut.; Nov. 7, '62. 
*Langley, S. Wing, Aug. 19, '62 ; G, 9th H. A.; July 6, '65. 
Lape, Samuel W., Aug. 15, '62; D, 9th H. A., 2d Lieut.; Oct. 8, '64. 
*La Rock, Charles, Oct. 19, '61 ; E, 10th Cav.; r. Dec, '63 ; July 19, '65. 
*La Rock, Joseph, Oct. 19, '61 ; B, 10th Cav.; r. Dec, '63 ; July 19, '65. 
*LaRock, Leonard, March 4, '63 ; G, 9th H. A.; trans. 2d H. A.; Sept. 

29, '65. 

Note. — A younger brother of the La Rock family, William H., enlisted at 17 
years in the regular arm)', and was slain with Custer, June 2.5, 1876, at the Little 
Big Horn. 

*Lee, Charles A., Aug. 21, '62; H, 9th H. A.; trans. 2d H. A.; Sept. 

29, '65. 
*Legg, Austin A., July 20, '62 ; C, 111th Inf.; d. Chicago, Oct. 2, '62. 
Lethbridge, Jeremy, Oct. 7, '61 ; D, 90th Inf.; r. Sept. 15, '64 ; 3d L. A.; 

Feb. 9, '66. 
*Lyman, Jacob L., July 26, "62 ; C, 111th Inf.; trans, to V. R. C; March 

6, '65. 
*Mabb, John, Aug. 31, '64 ; H, 9th H. A.; July 6, '65. 
*McBeth, William L., July 30, '62; B, 111th Inf.; thought to have been 

drowned in Lake Erie. 
*McCoy, William G., Aug. 5, '62; C, 111th Inf.; d., Washington, Aug. 

29, '63. 
•McDonald, Charles, Aug. 15, '62 ; D, 9th H. A. 



390 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 

•McGinnes, Daniel, Aug. 18, '62 ; H, 9th H. A.; d., Washington, July 

31, '63. 
•McKenny, Thomas, July 30, '64 ; sub. for Thomas Eobinson. 
*McWharf, James, Sept. 1, '64 ; 3d L. A.; June, '65. 
•McWharf, Theodore, Aug. 6, '62; C, 111th Inf.; Sept. 22, '63. 
*Mariquette, Daniel, Sept., '62 (?); 111th Inf. 
*Marsh, Cornelius, Aug. 15, '62 ; H, 9th H. A.; May 2, '64. 
*Marsh, Henry, Sept. 25, '61; D, 8th Cav.; afterward, Sept., '62, in H, 

9th H. A.; July 6, '65. 
*Marsh, Uriah, Aug. 23, '62; H, 9th H. A.; July 6, '65. 
*Milem, Christopher, Nov. 14, '61; I, 75th Inf.; r. Jan. 24, '64; Aug. 

31, '65. 
•Milem, George, Oct. 28, '61; F, 98th Inf.; r. Jan. 1, '64, 1st Lieut.; Aug. 

31, '65. 
Miller, Cornelius, Dec. 14, '63 ; H, 9th H. A.; July 6, '65. 
Miner, Philo, Jan. 18, '64 j C, 111th Inf.; trans. 4th H. A.; June 3, '65. 
Morey, Edmund W., Sept., '63; H, 9th H. A.; k.. Cold Harbor, June 

3, '64. 
*Morey, George N., May, '61 ; B, 27th Inf.; d., Alexandria, April, '62. 
Morey, Horace M., Dec. 10, '63 ; G, 9th H. A.; trans. 2d H. A.; Sept. 

29, '65. 
*Murphy, Cornelius, April 25, '61 ; B, 27th Inf.; June 2, '63. 
Murphy, John, July 30, '64; sub. for Philander Mitchell, Jr. 
*Murray, July 30, '64 ; sub. for E. C. Ellinwood. 

*Neeley, Nelson, Aug. 29, '62 ; Asst. Surgeon, 57th Inf.; June 29, '64. 
*Nichols, Francis M., Aug. 5, '62 ; B, 111th Inf.; Jan. 27, '64. 
Oaks, Charles G., Jr., Sept. 15, '64 ; E, 5th Wis.; June 20, '65. 
•O'Brien, John, July 30, '64 ; sub. for Marvin Wilbur. 
Odell, Lorenzo, Feb. 25, '63 ; G, 9th H. A. 
Paine, Daniel M., Aug., '64; 111th Inf.; June 3, '65. 
Paine, Peter C, Aug., '64 ; P, 111th Inf.; June 3, '65. 
*Paine, Smith E., Aug. 31, '64; F, lllth Inf.; June 3, '65. 
•Patterson, George, Oct. 19, '61; E, 10th Cav.; r. Feb. 25, '64; July 

19, '65. 
Perkins, Charles, Jan. 3, '64 ; lllth Inf.; d. July 13, '64. 
Perkins, Charles W., Sept. 5, '61 ; D, 90th Inf.; d. July 15, '62. 
Perkins, Harvey, Aug. 15, '64 ; E, 61st Inf.; July 14, '65. 
Perkins, John L., Aug. 19, '62; D, 9th H. A.; d., Danville, Va., Aug. 

18, '64, prisoner of war. 
•Phillips, George, Oct. 19, '61 ; E, 10th Cav.; Oct., '64. 
Phillips, James H., May, '61 ; 2d Mich.; d. June 3, '62. 
•Phillips, Stephen, '61; E, 10th Cav.; also enlisted March 13, '63, in G, 

9th H. A.; d. Dec. 14, '64. 



EOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 391 

Pimm, Enos T., Sept. 3, '64 ; H, 9th H. A.; July 6, '65. 
•Pitcher, George A., Aug. 31, '64 ; H, 9th H. A.; July 6, '65. 
Prosens, Franklin M., Sept. 2, '64; 9th H. A.; d., City Point, Va., Dec. 
9, '64. 

•Purchase, Lewis, Sept. 2, '64 ; B, 3d L. A.; June 23, '65. 

*Eeady, Alexander, Aug. 22, '62; H, 9th H. A.; March 10, '63. 

Eeed, John A., Nov. 20, '61 ; G, 75th Inf.(?); k., 2d Bull Run, Aug., '62. 

•Rhinehart, Andrew, Aug. 22, '62; D, 9th H. A.; k., Winchester, Va., 
Sept. 19, '64. 

Richardson, John, Feb. 15, '64; 3d L. A.; July, '65. 

*Ridegway, Sylvanus, Aug. 12, '62; D, 111th Inf.; June 4, '65. 

•Ridgeway, Sylvester, Aug. 12, '62 ; D, 111th Inf. 

•Roach, Patrick, July 30, '64 ; sub. for James G. Osborn. 

Roe, Alfred S., Jan. 21, '64; A, 9th H. A.; trans. L, 2d H. A.; Oct. 
16, '65. 

Rounds, John, May 25, '61 ; C, 32d Inf.; June 19, '63. 

Ruppert, John H., Aug., '62 ; H, 148th Inf.; June 22, '65. 

•Seager, Asher W., Aug. 19, '62; D, 9th H. A.; July 6, '65. 

•Seager, Benjamin, Aug. 19, '62 ; D, 9th H. A.; July 6, '65. 

Seager, George W., Sept. 12, '61 ; D, 90th Inf.; Feb. 9, '66. 

•Seelye, Alfred, Aug. 31, '64 ; H, 9th H. A.; July 6, '65. 

Seelye, Irwin R., Sept. 1, '64 ; H, 9th H. A.; July 6, '65. 

•Seelye, J. Judson, Aug. 22, '62; H, 9th H. A.; June 12, '65. 

•Selcor, Conrad, June, '61 ; D, 67th Inf. 

Shannon, Samuel L., Aug. 15, '62; D, 9th H. A.; July 6, '65. 

•Shannon, Theodore, Jan. 4, '64 ; G, 9th H. A.; May 24, '65. 

•Shaw, John P., Aug. 22, '62 ; D, 9th H. A.; '64. 

•Sherman, Charles, April 25, '61 ; B, 27th Inf., 2d Lieut.; May 21, '63. 

•Sherman, Ezra A., July 30, '62; C, 111th Inf.; d. in rebel prison, Rich- 
mond, Va., March 24, '65. 

Sherman, Franklin N., served in a western regiment. 

•Sherman, John E., July 26, '62; C, 111th Inf.; k.. Wilderness, May 
6, '64. 

Sherman, Levi, Aug. 8, '63 ; C, 21st Cav.; July 3, '66. 

•Sherman, Robert, Dec, '61 ; E, 98th Inf.; later in G, 9th H. A. 

•Sherman, W. Harrison, Aug. 5, '62 ; C, 111th Inl. 

•Sherman, William Henry, Aug. 16, '62; C, 111th Inf.; k.. Wilderness, 
May 6, '64. 

•Shoemaker, John H., July 30, '64 ; sub. for Robert N. Jeffers. 

•Silver, Benjamin C, Oct., '61 ; E, 10th Cav.; July 19, '65. 

•Silver, John, Oct., '61 ; E, 10th Cav.; July 19, '65. 

Skut, Ira, Nov. 6, '61 ; E, 10th Cav. 

•Smith, George, Fall, '63 ; A, 9th H. A. 



392 EOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 

Smith, James. Aug. 29, '62; H, 9th H. A.; July 6, '65. 

*Smith, Leonard A., Oct. 1, '61; F, 75th Inf.; r. Jan. 1, '64; Aug. 

31, '65. 
*Smith, Lewis W., Aug. 19, '62 ; G, 9th H. A.; July 6, '65. 
*Smith, Sidney L., Aug. 11, '62 ; 9th H. A. 
*Snyder, Harvey H., Oct. 13, '61; E, 10th Cav.; r. Dec. 18, '63; July 

19, '65. 
*Snyder, John W., Aug. 14, '62; B, 111th Inf.; Dec, '62, at Chicago. 
*Sayder, William A., Oct. 14, '61 ; E, 10th Cav., 2d, 1st Lieut., Captain, 

Major, Brev. Lt. Colonel ; July 19. '65. 
*Soule, Ira, Aug. 21, '62 ; H, 9th H. A.; July 6, '65. 
*Soule, Ira T., Aug. 21, '62 ; H, 9th H. A.; July 6, '65. 
*Staffen, Jacob, Sept. 13, '61 ; D, 90th Inf.; March 4, '65. 
Starkey, David, Oct., '61 ; E, 10th Cav.; July 19, '65. 
*Starkey, Edward H., Oct. 19, '61 ; E, 10th Cav.; July 19, '65. 
Stewart, William H., Sept., '64 ; 3d L. A.; June, '65. 
•Stickles, Andrew, Aug., '62; B, 111th Inf. 
*Streeter, Josiah W., Aug. 5, '62 ; C, 111th Inf., June 4, '65. 
•Sullivan, Michael, Aug. 21, '62 ; K, 9th H. A. 
Sutherland, David W., Aug. 7, '62; D, Ulthlnf.; June 4, '65. 
Thomas, Fernando C, Sept. 6, '61 ; 1st Cal.; r. Sept. 3, '64 ; E, 3d L. A.; 

June 23, '65. 
Thompson, Reuben S., Oct. 5, '62; E, 10th Cav. 
•Thompson, Samuel P., Sept. 16, '61 ; C, 8th Cav.; June 27, '65. 
•Tindall, Philip P., Aug. 22, '62 ; H, 9th H. A., 2d and 1st Lieut.; June 

27, '65. 
•Toles, Eben W., Sept. 5, '64 ; H, 9th H. A.; May 25, '65. 
Tompkins, Henry, Feb. 22, '64; D, 111th Inf.; '65. 
•Trippe, Edward M., Oct. 19, '61 ; E, 10th Cav.; July 19, '65. 
Trippe, Morton F., Feb. 22, '63 ; A, 9th H. A.; April 1, '64. 
Turner, Philip, March 21, '65 ; H, 96th Inf.; Feb. 6, '66. 
•Ullrich, Charles, Aug. 6, '62 ; A, 9th H. A.; July 6, 65. 
•Utter, Uriah B., July 6, '62 ; D, 111th Inf. 

•Van Antwerp, John, Aug. 25, '62 ; G, 9th H. A.; d. April 17, '65. 
Vanderburgh, John W., Dec. 11, '63 ; H, 9th H. A.; March 5, '65. 
Van Valkenburgh, Abraham, Aug., '62; 160th Inf.; d.. Baton Rouge, 

Aug. 22, '63. 
•Van Wort, James L., Aug., "62; H, 9th H. A.; July 6, '65. 
•Viele, Aaron, March 25, '63 ; H, 9th H. A.; trans, to V. R. C, May 

14, '64. 
Wager, Stephen, Oct. 15, '61 ; D, 90th Inf.; trans, to 1st U. S. Arty. Lost 

an arm at Cold Harbor. 
•Wager, William, Aug. 15, '62; D, 9th H. A.; July 6, '65. 



EOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 393 

•Wait, Stephen M., Sept. 3, '64; H, 9th H. A.; May IS. '65. 

•Wallace, Henry, July 30, '64 ; sub. for John H. Barnes. 

Walmsley, Albert, Dec. 23, '63; D, 9th H. A.; trans. M, 2d H. A.; Sept. 
29, '65. 

Walmsley, Henry, Dec. 23, '63; D, 9th H. A.; trans. M, 2d H. A.; Sept. 
29, '65. 

•Watson, George, July 30, '64 ; sub. for Peter Harmon. 

•Way, David, Aug. 16, '62; D, 9th H. A.; d., Danville, Va., prisoner of 
war. 

•Weaver, Chester, Oct. 21, '62 ; B, 8th Cav. 

•Weaver, Spencer C, April 30, '61 ; B, 27th Inf.; Oct., '62. 

Weed, William H., March 9, '65 ; C, 193d Inf.; Jan. IS, '66. 

Weeks, De Witt M., Dec. 17, '63 ; F, 2d Mounted Rifles ; May 26, '65. 

Wescott, Daniel C, July 31, '62 ; B, 111th Inf.; lost right arm at Peters- 
burg; June 4, '65. 

•West, Alonzo, Aug. 26, '62 ; K, 9th H. A.; July 6, '65. 

•Westbrook, Charles, Aug. 18, '62 ; D, 9th H. A. 

•Whedon, George D., Dec. 23, '61 ; Asst. Sur., 10th Cav.; Nov. 1, '62. 

•Wilcox, Jack, July 23, '64 ; sub. for George Woodruff. 

•Williams, Alexander, Oct., '61; E, 10th Cav.; July 19, '65. 

Wilson, Fortescue W., Oct. 18, '61 ; C, 105th Inf.; d. 1864". 

•Winchell, Calvin E., Aug. 15, '62 ; G, 9th H. A.; trans. 11th V. E. C, 
April, '64 ; March 19, '65. 

•Wood, Ira, Aug. 9, '62 ; A, 9th H. A.; d. July 28, '64. 

•Woodard, Seymour, Aug. 24, '62 ; H, 9th H. A., 2d Lieut.; Feb. 25, '65. 

•Woodruff, Isaac, Aug. 9, '62; D, 9th H. A.; July 6, '65. 

Wooley, Charles M., Sept. 2, '64 ; 9th H. A.; July 6, '65. 

Worden, John V., Jan. 2, '64 ; 9th H. A.; July 6, '65. 

•Young, Edmund, Aug. 20, '62; H, 9th H. A., 2d Lieut.; July 6, '65. 

Young, James A., Aug. 6, '62 ; H, 126th Inf.; June 3, '65. 



EPITAPHS FROM THE BURIAL GROUNDS OF ROSE 
AND ADJOINING TOWNS. 

In copying these inscriptions I have made no effort to reproduce peculiar 
orthography, lettering, arrangement nor poetic effusions. I have secured 
the facts in the briefest and most comprehensive manner possible. As 
the copying has been done at intervals during the last six years, it is more 
than probable that inscriptions of later years, in the more remote inclosures, 
have not been secured. All epitaphs were taken in the Rose and other 
cemeteries, save those of South Sodus and York's corners, where only 
those pertaining to Rose were copied. A strictly alphabetical order is 
followed, save where the members of a given family are involved. In such 
cases the names of wife and children follow that of the husband and father. 
Unless otherwise specified, the first date refers to birth, the second to 
death ; age is indicated in order of numerals — years, months days. The 
final letter is the initial of the cemetery where the epitaph is found. 

The following explanation should be carefully read : 

A. stands for Aurand's burial ground, located in Galen, about two miles south 
of Town's district; B. indicates Briggs', immediately south of the southeast corner 
of Rose and nearly opposite the residence of William Hunt; C, abbreviation for 
Collins, the cemetery in District No. 7; E., Ellinwood's, a mile east of the Valley; 
F., Ferguson's, in Galen,'a mile south of southwest corner of Rose; H., Hubbard's, 
in west part of Butler; Hu., Huron, southeast part of that town; L., Lovejoy's, in 
District No. 9; N. R., North Rose; i{.. Rose, or the Valley burial ground, and 
the largest in the town; S. S., South Sodus, in southeast part; IF., White school- 
house, on the road from the Valley to Clyde, a mile-and-a-half south of the town 
line; F., York's corners, in southwest part of Huron. 

Louisa A. Ackley, June 16, 1884 ; 22, 0, 11. R. 

Charles G., her son, Sept. 11, 188-1; 3 months, 6 days. R. 

Ede Alden, Dec. 2, 1870; 82, 11, 2. S. S. 

Mary Alden, June 25, 1842; 22d year. S. S. 

Amos Aldrich, April 3, 1875 ; 81, 5, 12. N. R. 

Sally, his wife, Aug. 30, 1859 ; 61, 4, 5. N. R. 

Harriet, their daughter, Dec. 21, 1850 ; 31, 9, 4. N. R. 

Orin, their son, March 12, 1849 ; 26, 9. N. R. 

John W., their son, March, 1833 ; 7 weeks. N. R. 

Clarissa, their daughter, May, 1833 ; 2 years. N. R. 



ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 396 

Their infant, died 1835. N- K. 

Willie, infant son of George and Ella Aldrich, April 21, 1865. L. 

James Alexander, Nov. 30, 1849 ; 67 years. Hu. 

Charlotte A., wife of William H. Allen, Feb. 8, 1859 ; 30, 4, 18. E. 

Eve, wife of Asa L. Allen, March 14, 1871 ; 66, 2, 10. W. 

Ezra Allen, June 26, 1836 ; 69 years. H. 

Lucy, his wife, April 30, 1852 ; 78, 9, 18. H. 
James Allen, Co. K, 9th N. Y. Heavy Artillery, Aug. 4, 1863 ; 

57, 3, 9. F. 

Solomon Allen, May 26, 1870; 79 years. R- 

Susan Allen, his wife, Jan. 26, 1888 ; 84 years. R- 

Lampson Allen, June 24, 1833— March 24, 1875. E- 

Nathan Allen, April 13, 1842 ; 19 years. ^^ 

Winthrop Allen, Sept. 22, 1854 ; 72, 0, 2. E- 

Mercy, his wife, Sept. 14, 1853; 57, 3, 24. R- 

Ann, wife of Joseph Andrews, March 29, 1876 ; 43, 6. Y. 

Charles M., their son, March 3, 1860 ; 2, 9, 7. Y. 

A. J. Andrus, June 21, 1879; 46, 3, 29. R- 

Eli Andrus, April 5, 1846 ; 65th year. Hu. 

Henry E., son of J. and A. H. Atkinson, June 11, 1862 ; 1, 6. P. 

William Aurand, Nov. 16, 1803— Sept. 15, 1884. A. 

Catherine, his wife, April 12, 1808— April 29, 1884. A. 

Harriet, their daughter, March 1, 1855 ; 16, 10, 22. A. 

Ezra Austin, May 3, 1861 ; 66 years. K- 
Ida E., daughter of Ezra and Huldah Austin, Jan. 8, 1858 ; 4, 4, 18. E. 

Hubbard T. Austin, March 1, 1852 ; 26, 10, 5. E. 
Stephen Babcock, April 22, 1837 ; 48 years. N. E. 
Huldah, wife of Almon Baker, and daughter of J. and Mary Sober, 

July 17, 1863 ; 28 years. R- 
Ida E., wife of C. O. Baker, and daughter of William and Margaret 

Weeks, March 3, 1887 ; 22, 4. S. S. 

Frances E., their daughter, Sept. 15, 1887 ; 7 months. S. S. 

Eev. Charles Baldwin, Sept. 10, 1831 -March 12, 1879. R. 

Samuel A., sou of T. W. and S. Barber, Oct. 26, 1850 ; 4, 0, 16. A. 

Infant daughter of Eomain C. and Helen J. Earless, June 29, 1874. E. 
Arnold A., son of Elijah and Mary Barnes, March 12, 1865; 11 

months, 16 days. F- 

Emily, wife of Benjamin Barnes, Nov. 27, 1860; 31, 8, 11. A. 

John Barnes, June 10, 1874 ; 78, 2, 5. F. 

Mary, his wife, April 10, 1871 ; 75, 10, 12. F. 

Sarah, their daughter, July 15, 1842 ; 9, 0, 3. F. 

D. P. Barnum, Oct. 20, 1890 ; 79 years. R. 

Catherine, his wife, Dec. 30, 1889 ; 59 years. R. 



396 EOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 

John E. Barrett, April 1, 1872 ; 48, 5, 26. F. 

Alice C, his daughter, September 26, 1865 ; 9, 5, 25. P. 

Simeon I. Barrett, Nov. 22, 1887 ; 93, 9. F. 

Matilda A., his wife, July 30, 1863 ; 65, 10, 8. F. 

Simeon O., son of above, April 1, 1833 ; 10 months, 17 days. F. 

Simeon J., son of above, April 20, 1841 ; 3 years. F. 

Tamar, wife of Elder Simeon Barrett, April 21, 1839 ; 75th year. P. 

Elisha Barton, Oct. 7, 1879 ; 53, 11, 11. S. S. 

Caroline, his wife, Oct. 9, 1884 ; 54, 5, 5. S. S. 

John Basaett, Dec. 26, 1870 ; 77 years. E. 

Lydia, his wife, June 2, 1869 ; 74 years. E. 

Peter Becker, Jan. 10, 1843 ; 64, 6, 14. W. 

Elizabeth, his wife, Jan. 7, 1851 ; 71, 11, 7. W. 

Seth Becker, Dec. 29, 1843 ; 30, 3, 28. W. 

Philip Becker, July 1, 1850 ; 43, 1, 8. W. 
Diana, daughter of Smithfield and Eebecca Beden, June 18, 1822 ; 

2, 0, 11. W. 

Caliata, daughter of same, April 15, 1822 ; 3, 6, 28. W. 

William Bedient, Sept. 1, 1828 ; 58 years. F. 

Mary, his wife, Sept. 14, 1828 ; 60 years. F. 

Hannah, wife of Harris Bemis, May 5, 1849 ; 50, 10, 16. H. 

Prank, son of Henry and Phrebe Benjamin, Aug. 27, 1863 ; 1, 9, 11. W. 

Manly, sou of A. and C. J. Benjamin, Oct. 16, 1864 ; 20, 1, 13. A. 

Kuth, wife of Nelson Benjamin, Aug. 9, 1839; 27, 5, 4. W. 

William Benjamin, Jan. 28, 1864 ; 63, 4, 10. W. 

Nancy Shaver, his wife, Nov. 25, 1863 ; 54, 9, 11. W. 

Mariah, their daughter, Sept. 22, 1844 ; 13, 6, 27. W. 

Deborah, wife of Eial Betts, Oct. 6, 1840 ; 33, 3, 21. B. 

Matilda, their daughter, Dec. 24, 1851 ; 17, 0, 20. B. 

Iiydia, wife of Samuel Bigelow, Dec. 15, 1843 ; 61, 1, 26. N. R. 

Chauncey Bishop, June 29, 1791; Aug. 5, 1880. E. 

Chloe W., his wife. May 27, 1797 ; Feb. 24, 1878. E. 
Children of Joel and Z. M. Bishop : 

Eron D., Jan. 25, 1854 ; 19, 4, 4. N. E. 

Antha, Aug. 12, 1849 ; 5 weeks. N. E. 

Emma, June 3, 1848 ; 8 months. N. E. 

E. Wallace Blackman, Feb, 19, 1862; 21, 1, 4. E. 

David L. Blackslee, April 13, 1854 ; IS, 0, 21. E. 

Abiah Blaine, Sept. 23, 1847 ; 48, 3, 6. ' L. 

John L. Blauvelt, March 11, 1864 ; 27, 8, 26. W. 

William G. Bliton, Co. G, 9th H. Arty., Feb. 1, 1864 ; 36 years. A. 

Diana, wife of E. W. Bliton, April 8, 1850 ; 59th year. A. 

Catharine A., wife of John Blynn, Dec. 1, 1817 , 1893. E. 



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ROSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 397 

Ovid Blynn, Feb. 14, 1803 ; July 12, 1891. E- 

Hannah, his wife. May 20, 1803; Feb. 3, 1886. R. 

Selden Borden, May 16, 1849 ; 51 years. F. 

William H. Bovee, Aug. 28, 1874 ; .35, 10, 15. R- 

Mary A., his daughter, Nov. 15, 1864; 19, 5, 28. R. 
Dudley W. Boyce, June 6, 1871 ; 56 years. N. R. 

Andrew Bradburn, Xov. 3, 1873 ; 57, 2, 23. R- 

David Bradburn, Jan. 13, 1892 ; 72 years. R- 
His children : 

Nathan F., March 4, 1855 ; 9 months, 5 days. R 
Benjamin D., Jan. 22, 1857 ; 7 months, 29 days. 
Nelson, March 29, 1872; 11, 10, 21. 

Lewis Braden, Dec. 11, 1851 ; 22, 1, 9. F. 
Jennie L., wife of J. E. Bradshaw and daughter of»G. and M. Jewell, 

Jan. 29, ISSl ; 29, 7, 18. R- 

Seth H. Brainard, May 29, 1842; 38th year. E. 
Louise, his wife, also wife of Samuel Hoffman, Nov. 22, 1878 ; 71 

years. F. 

Henry Brewer, March 1, 1874 ; 74 years. A. 

James E. Brewer, Jan. 30, 1861 ; 25, 5, 19. A. 
Thomas Brewer, Co. K, 9th N. Y. H. Arty., Feb. 11, 1874; 63 years. W. 

Addison C, son of I. O. and L. Brewster, Oct. 5, 1858 ; 2, 1, 20. F 
Jonathan Briggs, July 20, 1881 ; 68, 9, 17. 
Emeline, his wife, Aug. 1, 1891; 80 years. 
George Briggs, June 8, 1878 ; 25, 9, 5. 
Samuel Briggs, Oct. 17, 1831 ; 64th year. B. 

Sarah, his wife, April 17, 1833 ; 68th year. B. 

William Briggs, March 19, 1844 ; 5Sth year. R. 

Roxanna, his wife, also relict of Walter Lyon, July 20, 1880 ; 85, 

10, 15. R- 

Georgie, son of James and Lizzie Brisbin, Sept. 18, 1865 ; 1, 0, 11. R. 

Prudence, daughter of Cyrus and Maria Brockway, March 24, 1846 ; 

17 years. ^^ 

Asa Brown, July 22, 1851 ; 55, 6, 22. N. R. 

James, son of Silas and Maranda Brown, April 26, 1837 ; 70, 0, 21. A. 
Ponelah, wife of George Brown, Jan. 17, 1860 ; 76, 9, 14. F. 

Silas Brown, Nov. 15, 1884 ; 77, 0, 21. R. 

Maranda, his wife. May 22, 1877 ; 65, 10, 5. R. 

Seth Brown, March 20, 1850 ; 67th year. A. 

Betsey, his wife, June 24, 1840 ; 58th year. A. 

Catharine, daughter of Seth and Emma Brownell, April 4, 1858 ; 

19, 6, 8. W. 

Ira, her brother, same day ; 17, 10, 4. W. 



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398 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 

Emily Brownell, June 24, 1867 ; 18, 11, 24, W. 

Mary, daughter of J. and E. Brownell, Feb. 4, 1844 ; 2 years. W. 

James Brunney, 1865 ; 21 years. L. 

Gustave Buhler, Dec. 25, 1870 ; 21 years. L. 

Chloe, wife of Benjamin Burgess, Nov. 5, 1799 ; Dec. 16, 1883. L. 

Alzina, wife of Daniel W. Burgess, March 3, 1852 ; 22, 0, 21. C. 

Phoebe, wife of Daniel W. Burgess, June 19, 1864 ; 45, 7, 23. C. 

Horatio Bush, Nov. 22, 1866 ; 86, 5. C. 

Elenora Byce, April 28, 1851 ; 5 months 21 days. F. 

Hudson Calkins, July 30, 1840 ; May 23, 1872. H. 

Insign Calkins, April 19, 1844 ; 23d year. H. 

John Calkins, Aug. 11, 1851 ; 66 years. H. 

Phcebe J., his wife, Jan. 26, 1863 ; 76 years. H. 

John W. Calkins, Oct. 29, 1886 ; 70, 7, 15. H. 

Hannah, his wife, Sept. 7, 1818 ; Feb. 21, 1881. H. 
Mary J., daughter of William W. and A. Calkins, June 4, 1863; 

4, 7, 20. H. 

James Campbell, March 5, 1814 ; Dec. 22, 1869. E. 
Eleanor, his wife, Wicklow, Ireland, April 17, 1814; Oct. 28, 1889. E. 

Loiza, daughter of William Campbell, Aug. 11, 1827 ; 1, 5, 20. F. 
Eoy, son of A. B. and H. A. Campbell, April 11, 1883; Sept. 26, 

1886. F. 

Stephen Cane, Nov. 26, 1860 ; 46, 9. A. 

Infant son of Stephen and Elizabeth Cane, July 29, 1852. A. 

Jacob Carkner, May 5, 1871 ; 69, 1, 15. B. 

Stephen Carr, May 6, 1854 ; 70, 7, 7. E. 

Amaziah T. Carrier, June 15, 1872 ; 62, 7. L. 

Mary, Nov. 6, 1859 ; 19, 9, 1. L. 

William Seward, Aug. 3, 1862; 24, 0, 28. L. 

Elbert E. (M. D.), Aug. 19, 1870 ; 28, 0, 18. L. 

Elizabeth, wife of Abner Carter, Feb. 22, 1855 ; 52, 10, 13. H. 
Mary A., daughter of Henry and Huldah Carter, Feb. 22, 1848; 

1, 2, 13. H. 

Sarah E., their daughter, July 3, 1849 ; 7 months, 29 days. H. 

Willie, son of W. and J. Casselmore, Feb. 27, 1862 ; 2, 1, 27. W. 

Calista, wife of George Catchpole, Oct. 17, 1872 ; 39 years. E. 

Susan, wife of James Catchpole, Feb. 25, 1866 ; 77, 1, 2. E. 

Nathaniel Center, May 18, 1845 ; 56 years. C. 

Addie, wife of Judson Chaddock, March 20, 1874 ; 29, 8, 10. E. 

Alonzo Chaddock, July 22, 1822— Dec. 12, 1890. L. 

Wesley Chaddock, Dec. 17, 1861 ; 26, 8, 23. L. 

Knowlton W., his son, Jan. 1, 1866 ; 5, 2, 25. L. 

William Chaddock, April 1, 1883 ; 72, 0, 23; E. 



ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 399 

Mercy E., daughter of William and L. Chaddock, May 4, 1849 ; 

5, 2, 20. N. R. 

Winfield Chaddock, Dec. 28, 1873 ; 47, 8, 16. ' L. 

Amanda Mason, his wife, March 8, 1859 ; 26, 9, 10. L. 

William Chaddock, Oct. 27, 1854 ; 68, 7, 10. L. 

Dorothea Chaddock, his wife, July 9, 1876 ; 87 years. L. 

Nettie, wife of Eev. D. O. Chamberlayne, and daughter of Rev. 

Charles Baldwin, 1860—1891. R. 

Abby, wife of James Chambers, Nov. 11, 1882 ; 77th year. F. 

Flavia E., wife of Levi B. Chase, May 31, 18.33— Nov. 9, 1856. R. 

John P. Chatterson, Oct. 20, 1849 ; 56, 0, 12. Hu. 

Cynthia, his wife, July 15, 1859 ; 58, 10, 10. Hu. 

Mary, daughter of above, Dec. 25, 1870 ; 42, 8, 10. Hu. 

Mary, wife of Betts Chatterson, July 16, 1846 ; 85 years. C. 

James Clapp, Sept. 18, 1828 ; 50, 3, 11. F. 

Elizabeth Clary, Oct. 3, 1887 ; 82 years. R- 

Samuel Clary, May 20, 1845 ; 66th year. S. S. 

Christina, his wife, April 28, 1846 ; 65th year. S. S. 

Harvey Closs, April 25, 1815— Jan. 16, 1886. R. 
Children of H. and E. H. Closs: 

Mary, Aug. 31, 1837— Aug. 31, 1837. R. 

Ellen H., July 19, 1845— Aug. 16, 1846. R. 

John Closs, Feb. 18, 1793— Feb. 16, 1832. R. 

Hannah, his wife, April 30, 1794— Sept. 26, 1831. R. 
Children of J. and H. Closs: 

E. Adelia, Dec. 25, 1825— Jan. 16, 1848. R. 

Anjenet, Dec. 28, 1828— Oct. 30, 1853. R. 
Rebecca A., daughter of David and Polly Closs, Oct. 6, 1833 ; 2, 3, 8. F. 

Calista L. Cobb, Feb. 14, 1827 ; 13, 6, 18. W. 

Fanny, wife of John M. Cobb, June, 1826 ; 43d year. W. 

Jonathan Colborn, March 14, 1857 ; 88 years. F. 

Hannah, his wife, June, 22, 1857 ; 81 years. F. 

Catharine, daughter of James and Mary Colborn, April 29, 1832 ; 

14, 1, 18. F. 

Charles W., son of same, March 13, 1851 ; 9, 3, 17. F. 

Jonathan, son of same, fell at siege of Fort Donelson, Feb. 13, 1862 ; 

29 years. F. 

Simeon Colborn, July 4, 1855 ; 18, 11, 15. F. 

John H. Cole, April, 1841 ; 1, 6. R. 

Minerva, daughter of William and Susan Cole, May 23, 1844 ; 

9, 7, 20. C. 

Thaddeus Collins, Sept. 4, 1828 ; 65th year. R. 

Esther, his wife, July 27, 1844 ; 78th year. R. 



400 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 

Thaddeus Collins, Oct. 27, 1865 ; 72, 10, 26. C 

Harriet, his wife, July 25, 1874 ; 74, 6, 16. C. 

Angeline, wife of David E. Converse, Jan. 31, 1886 ; 54 years. R. 

Charles Converse, May 30, 1861 ; 47, 7, 16. Y. 

Daniel E. Converse, Nov. 19, 1826— May 30, 1889. E. 

Horace Converse, May 28, 1847 ; 63 years. Y. 

Horace, son of H. and AV)igail Converse, Aug. 15, 1844. Y. 

Charles H., son of same, Feb. 10, 1853. Age of both obscure. Y. 
Amanda, daughter of G. H. and S. A. Coon, Feb. 7, 1857 ; 6 months, 

26 days. A. 

Marilla, daughter of same. May 14, 1857 ; 10 months. A. 

Martha, daughter of same, Oct. 14, 1849 ; 9 months, 1 day. A^ 

Charles, son of same, Sept. 15, 1853 ; 8 months, 18 days. A. 

Jacob I. Coon, July 10, 1852; 70, 6, 8. A. 

Catharine, his wife, Sept. 6, 1865 ; 78, 2, 24. A. 

Sophia, wife of Hiram Coon, Feb. 24, 1859 ; 40 years. A. 

Bertie, their son, Sept. 17, 1858 ; 1, 6. A. 

Mary G., their daughter. Jan. 12, 1855 ; 9, 10, 19. A. 

John S. Cornwall, Sept. 28, 1854 ; 54, 4, 19. F. 
Anna, his wife, and daughter of Alexander and Sarah Harper, Sept. 3, 

1859 ; 50, 2, 26. W. 

Rebecca Cornwall, July 22, 1851 ; 37th year. F. 

Solomon Cornwall, Aug. 27, 1852 ; 65 years. F. 
Shubail H. Cornwall, son of Solomon and Lucy, Dec. 23, 1849 ; 

24, 7, 16. F, 

Clarissa Co veil, Sept. 28, 1889 ;^76 years. R. 
Ida, daughter of Abram and Helen Covell, Sept. 27, 1870 ; 3 months, 

3 days. R- 

James Covell, April 15, 1872 ; 82, 10, 10. E. 

Ann, his wife, May 6, 1863 ; 74, 4, 8. E. 

Jane R., wife of Charles Covell, April 23, 1884 ; 42 years. E. 

James Cowan, June 21, 1842 ; 72 years. E. 

Frances, his wife, Sept. 9, 1845 ; 73 years. R. 

Mordecai Cox, Sept. 17, 1878 ; 60, 0, 17. E. 

Lovina, his wife. May 11, 1863; 34, 8, 14. E. 

George F., their son, July 30, 1875 ; 12, 8, 10. E. 
Willie A., son of M. and Stella Cox, July 20, 1884 ; 5 months, 15 

days. ^• 

Benjamin Craft, Nov. 23, 1858 ; 79, 5, 1. S. S. 

Elizabeth, his wife, Sept. 9, 1861 ; 81, 6. S. S. 

Pine Craft, Sept. 23, 1867 ; 66, 3, 1. S. S. 
Squaire B., son of Benjamin and Lucy Craft, Jr., March 17, 1849; 

7 months, 14 days. S. S. 



EOSB NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 401 

Daniel Crampton, Sept. 14, 1832 ; 47 years. W. 
Sarah Ann, daughter of Joseph C. and Sarah M. Crandall, May 29, 

1842 ; 5, 3, 29. F. 

Helen, daughter of same, June 5. 1842 ; 2, 6, 17. F. 

Mary, daughter of same, June 2, 1842 ; 2 months, 21 days. F. 

Clarissa, wife of Adam Crisler, Aug. 11, 1876 ; 54, 1, 1. B. 
William A., son of Jeremiah and Catharine Crisler, Sept. 26, 1865 ; 

5 months, 28 days. R. 

Isaac Crydenwise, Aug. 28, 1831 ; 31st year. R. 
Isaac, son of Isaac and Sophia Crydenwise, Sept. 17, 1830 — Oct. 

27, 1850. R. 

Isaac Curtis, Dec. 7, 1845 ; 31, 5. C. 
Melvin D., son of Prentice and Margaret J. Cushman, May 31, 1846; 

2 months. B. 

Anna Maria, wife of Peter Darling, Sept. 24, 1860 ; 50, 11, 28. A. 

David C. Day, Co. B, 160th N. Y. Inf., Feb. 13, 1879 ; 49 years. W. 
John H. Deady, killed by the running away of a span of horses, 

May 5, 1848 ; 17, 3, 18. C. 

John Q. Deady, Sept. 28, 1856 ; 62, 0, 19. C. 

Thomas Deady, Feb. 1, 1847 ; 27, 1, 6. C. 

Lucy Lemira, wife of P. B. Decker, May 3, 1852 ; 28 years. E. 

Charles E., their son, July 30, 1847 ; 1, 11, 27. B. 

Francis L. DeLong, July 19, 1851 ; 58, 9, 15. Hu. 

Sarah, his wife, Jan. 14, 1884 ; 88, 9, 27. Ha. 

Francis DeLong, March 18, 1853 ; 35, 1, 17. Hu. 
John DeLong, 9th N. Y. H. A., at Winchester, Va., Oct. 14, 1864 ; 

32, 3, 14 ; Hu. 
Alonzo H., son of Henry L. and Amanda L. Demsin, Aug. 22, 1847 ; 

1, 5, 2. W. 

Caroline, wife of William Desmond, Feb. 24, 1859 ; 26, 5. F. 

James, their son, March 23, 1860 ; 4, 7. F. 

John Desmond, June 23, 1859 ; 67 years. F. 

Catharine, his wife, March 29, 1835 ; 42d year. F. 

John, their son, Aug. 1, 1836 ; 1, 4, 6. F. 

Mary, wife of John Desmond, Jan. 10, 1845 ; 43d year. F. 

Martha A., their daughter, May 30, 1844 ; 3, 8, 3. F. 

Charles, their son, June 28, 1852 ; 5, 9, 10. F. 

Eliza A., their daughter, Aug. 13, 1852 ; 14, 1. F. 

Michael Desmond, Oct. 2, 1848 ; 52d year. F. 

Norah, his wife, July 2, 1863 ; 70 years. F. 

Mary, their daughter, Oct. 9, 1848 ; 13 years. F. 

William Desmond, Dec. 21, 1849 ; 42, 8, 24. p. 
Michael, son of William and Lucinda Desmond, Sept. 28, 1852; 3, 1, 7. F. 
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402 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 

Catharine, their daughter, Oct. 1, 1852 ; 5, 4, 6. F. 

Charles, their son, Oct. 2, 1852 ; 9, 7, 20. F. 
William L., son of William and Lucy Desmond, March. 11, 1873; 

13, 2. F. 

Charles H., son of George and S. M. Deuel, Feb. 8, 1863 ; 7, 5, 21. F. 

Peter, son of Peter C. and Eveline Devoe, July 5, 1842 ; 2, 1, 12. H. 

Safety, wife of Joseph Dexter, July 15, 1858 ; 80, 11. W. 
Martin C, son of George and Lois E. Dickinson, Jan. 11, 1849; 

10 months. E. 

Sou of R. D. and H. F. Dickinson, Sept. 23, 1861 ; 3, 2, 7. E. 

John Dickson, April 25, 1788— Jan. 15, 1863. R. 

Betsey, his wife, Nov. 27, 1797— Feb. 28, 1849. R. 

John J. Dickson, M. D., May 25, 1807— Feb. 15, 1874. R. 

Sophia L., his wife, Feb. 10, 1811— April 7, 1848. R. 

William Dinsmore, April 13, 1861 ; 57, 4, 10. A. 

Mary Tibbets, his wife, July 24, 1878 ; 72, 1, 26. A. 
William Arthur, their son, at Sutler's Creek, Cal., May 11, 1873; 

43, 1, 17. A. 

Mary Jane, their daughter, Aug. 17, 1855; 22, 1, 1. A. 

Abel Dixon, Co. G, 9th N. Y. H. A., April 29, 1864 ; 23 years. Y. 

Albert, son of G. and S. Dixon, March 31, 1877 ; 13, 0, 17. Y. 

George S. Doolittle, March 22, 1866 ; 53, 1. H. 

Stephen Doolittle, May 4, 1846 ; 62 years. H. 

Polly, his wife, Nov. 4, 1850 ; 65 years. H. 
Stephen S., son of George and T. C. Doolittle, July 4, 1856 ; 11 

months, 15 days. H. 

John Doty, Oct. 11, 1809— Oct. 29, 1881. Hu. 

Emmeline B., his wife, Oct. 9, 1829— Sept. 2, 1883. Hu. 

Sarah Doty, June 25, 1813— April 15, 1860. Hu. 

William W. Doty, Oct. 5, 1864- April 17, 1886. Hu. 

Asahel Dowd, Jan. 25, 1855 ; 80, 5, 21. Hu. 

Archie Dunbar, Dec. 4, 1876 ; 80 years. Y. 

Ciitliarine, wife of H. Dunbar, May 5, 1877 ; 70 years. Y. 

Harriet C, wife of John Dunbar, March 16, 1860 ; 27 years. Y. 

Charles H., their son, March 5, 1860; 10 years. Y. 

Aldice C, their son, May 28, 1862 ; 2, 2, 20. Y. 

William Dunbar, June 25, 1864; 51, 2, 4. Y. 

Ann, wife of Morgan Dunham, June 30, 1861 ; 39 years. R. 
Elmore B., son of H. C. and L. Dunham, March 17, 1853 — July 13, 

1860. F. 
Emeranca, daughter of H. C. and C. Dunham, Feb. 25, 1846 ; 3 

months. F. 

Ercline, daughter of S. W. and S. M. Dunham, Nov. 2, 1883 ; 5, 1, 27. R. 



KOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 403 

Thomas Drakeford, July 14, 1849 ; 26, 4, 7. R. 

Elizabeth, wife of John Dratt, July 22, 1854 ; 82, 5, 23. B. 

Artelissa Drown, Aug. 31, 1885 ; 47, 5. R. 

Hannah S., wife of John A. Drown, July 14, 1878 ; 52, 3, 4. R. 

Napoleon B. Drown, Sept. 13, 1875 ; 38 years. Hu. 

Thomas J. Drown, Co. D, 67th N. Y. Inf., U. S. General Hospital, 

David's Island, X. Y., Nov. 15, 1862 ; 28, 6, 11. Hu. 

Holloway Drury, July 15, 1864 ; 79 years. Hu. 

Holloway Drury, Nov. 26, 1879 ; 92 years. L. 

Alexander Edmonds, Dec. 31, 1856 ; 70, 4, 3. H. 

Clark Eldred, Feb. 5, 1805— Aug. 18, 1889. Hu. 
Elsie J. Eldred, adopted daughter of M. C. and M. Vandercook, 

Aug. 23, 1851 ; 16th year. F. 

Charlie O., son of E. M. and S. A. EUinwood, April, 1886 ; 1, 2, 4. R. 

Chester EUinwood, April 1, 1877 ; 84, 3, 10. E. 

Sophronia, his wife, Aug. 26, 1866 ; 67, 0, 1. E. 

David EUinwood, Nov. 30, 1883 ; 60 years. R. 

Mary Jane, his wife, June 15, 1884 ; 62 years. R. 

Ensign W. EUinwood, Oct. 26, 1818— Oct. 26, 1889. B. 

Catharine R., his wife, May 3, 1822— April 17, 1888. E. 

Jennie, their daughter, Oct. 3, 1861 ; 18, 9, 28. E. 

Alice Irene, their daughter, Aug. 4, 1847 ; 1, 8, 19. E. 

Irene P., daughter of E. C. and M. E. EUinwood, July 23, 1870— 

Oct. 27, 1884. E. 

Jonathan EUinwood, Aug. 3, 1842 ; 76, 3, 28. E. 

Naomi, his wife, April 28, 1840 ; 72, 10, 3. E. 

Lucius EUinwood, Feb. 26, 1884; 82 years. E. 

Lucy, his wife, Dec. 20, 1838 ; 34 years. E. 

Mahala, his second wife, Sept. 27, 1864 ; 49, 7, 16. E. 

William S., their son, July 23, 1847 ; 2, 0, IS. E. 

Lucy Ann, their daughter, July 27, 1847 ; 4, 2, 24. E. 

Mary, wife of G. W. EUinwood, Sept. 9, 1849 ; 29th year. E. 

Jane, his second wife, Jan. 26, 1881 ; 66, 0, 4. E. 

Mary E., daughter of O. E. and E. E. EUinwood, April 27, 1851— 

Sept. 29, 1854. R. 

Infant sou of same, Feb. 4, 1857— Feb. 21, 1857. R. 

Samuel EUis EUinwood, April 18, 1879 ; 82 years. R. 

Submit, his wife. May 21, 1866; 64 years. R. 

Valorous EUinwood, Dec. 26, 1853 ; 48, 4, 4. E. 

Sarah M., his wife, April 14, 1845 ; 40th year. E. 

Amy, his second wife, also wife of Samuel Garlick, July 2, 1856 ; 

46, 6, 4. E. 

WiUiam EUinwood, April 11, 1844 ; 31, 8, 27. E. 



404 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 

Mary Melissa, daughter of William aud Clarissa L. Ellinwood, 

Aug. 2f5, 1846 ; 3, 1, 14. E. 

George Ellsworth, March 28, 1840 ; 84 years. R. 

Sarah, his wife, April 2, 1849 ; 79 years. E. 

Jane, wife of Zechariah Esmond, March 13, 1838 ; 31, 11, 19. C. 

Jane, wife of C. W. Fairbank, April 11, 1841 ; 34th year. R. 

Eber, their son, drowned June 12, 1853 ; 17th year. E. 

Francis M., son of C. W. Fairbank, Jan., 1843 ; 21 months. R. 

Thomas D. Farnsworth, Aug. 4, 1890 ; 64 years. R. 
Augustus Featherly, Co. G, 3d L. A., April 2, 1886 ; 40 years. Hu. 

John Featherly, died about 1843. Y. 

Mary, his wife, July 29, 1840 ; 81 years. Y. 
Mary A., daughter of N. and E. Feek, Sept. 6, 1847 ; 1, 3, 9. N. R. 

David Ferguson, Oct. 24, 1867 ; 75, 8, 25. P. 
Sarah, his wife, July 9, 1873 ; 84 years. . F. 

Their infant, Jan. 28, 1814. F. 

Stephen, their son, Aug. 13, 1826 ; 3, 8. F. 

Charles, their son, Aug. 18, 1821 ; 1, 7. F. 

Sarah, their daughter, Feb. 20, 1831 ; 9 months, 2 days. F. 
Deborah, wife of Nicholas Ferguson, and daughter of J. and S. Van 

Amburgh, Oct. 14, 1831 ; 33, 7. F. 

Eliza, wife of Abraham Ferguson, Sept. 13, 1859 ; 52, 2, 1. F. 

Jacob Ferguson, Nov. 12, 1852 ; 63, 1, 13. F. 

Fanny, his wife, Dec. 24, 1870 ; 72 years. F. 

John Ferguson, Nov. 12, 1842 ; 25th year. F. 

John Ferguson, Nov. 30, 1840 ; 75 years. F. 

•Martha, wife of Stephen Ferguson, Sept. 21, 1833 ; 36th year. F. 

Sarah Ann, wife of Charles Ferguson, March 11, 1847 ; 21st year. F. 

Alice M., wife of H. J. Ferris, May 11, 1874 ; 27, 2, 11. E. 

James H. Ferris, May 27, 1885; 80 years. E. 

Franklin Finch, July 3, 1876 ; 72, 1, 5. F. 

Matilda, his wife, March 16, 1851 ; 40, 9, 10. F. 

Jeremiah S. Finch, Dec. 13, 1859 ; 75, 2, 9. C. 

Eunice, his wife, Oct. 24, 1864 ; 80, 2, 10. C. 

John Finch, Jan. 29, 1874 ; 58, 10, 27. C. 
Mary E., daughter of J. and Diademia C. Finch, Feb. 8, 1859 ; 15, 0, 8. C. 
Louisa J., daughter of D. S. and M. A. Finch, Sept. 23, 1855 ; 4, 11, 3. B. 

Martha, wife of John Finch, Oct. 28, 1847 ; 86th year. F. 

Reynolds Finch, June 20, 1870 ; 75th year. F. 

Phcebe, his wife, Aug. 18, 1868 ; 69th year. F. 

Children of William and C. A. Finch : » C. 
Delia G.. Jan. 10, 1865— Oct. 6, 1867. 
Elvina M., April 26, 1871— Nov. 19, 1871. 



ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 405 

Children of Christian and Frances Finch : B. 

Alice F., Oct. 27, 1878 ; 10 months. 

James F., Oct. 16, 1881 ; 17 days. 

John H., April 15, 1875; 3, 1, 20. 

Rosa, Sept. 22, 1874 ; 6 months, 7 days. 

Susannah, wife of William Fisher, Nov. 23, 1890 ; 66 years. R. 

Dalinda C, wife of William B. Fletcher, Jan. 26, 1832 ; 23, 0, 28. B. 
Rachel Caroline, danghtei' of Russell and Rachel Fletcher, Jan. 30, 

1826 ; 6, 6. B 

Elizur Flint, Feb. 1, 1884 ; 91 years. N. R. 

Roxy, his wife. May 16, 1865 ; 70 years. N. R. 

Roxy M., their daughter, June 16, 1828 ; 1 year. N. R. 

Pomeroy Flint, Nov. 3, 1819 ; 29 years. N. R. 

Sarah M. Flint, Sept. 12, 1824 ; 25, 3, 12. W. 
Elizabeth Ford, adopted daughter of W. and C. Pease, March 21, 

1851 ; 11, 2, 29. F. 
Phcebe M., wife of J. S. Forncrook, and daughter of D. and B. Pettys, 

July 25, 1858 ; 23, 11, 25. W. 

Henry Fosmire, July 16, 1840 ; 50, 4, 27. B. 

Hannah, his wife, April 3, 1847 ; 46, 7, 22. E. 

IMaria H., their daughter, June 7, 1854 ; 15, 9, 21. R. 

John Fosmire, Dec. 20, 1863 ; 56, 9, 24. E. 

Anna B., wife of Frederick Fox, Aug. 22, 1867 ; 26, 8, 28. F. 

Delbert, son of Louis and Mary Fox, April 30, 1877— May 27, 1877. F. 
Edward, son of Louis and Mary Fox, April 30, 1877 — June 15, 1877. F. 

Louis P. Fox, Nov. 15, 1877 ; 69, 10, 21. F.. 

Magdalen A., his wife, March 17, 1880 ; 68, 3, 25. F. 

William, their son, Oct. 12, 1875 ; 19, 11, 28. P. 

Levine, wife of Jared Frazier, Sept. 25, 1849 ; 67 years. H. 

Sarah H. A., wife of B. M. Fredendall, Sept. 9, 1884 ; 38, 3. E. 

David Freer, April 24, 1848 ; 79, 4, 10. W. 

Fanny, wife of Benjamin Frink, Oct. IS, 1834 ; 52 years. F. 

Mary, wife of Ralph Fuller, Aug. 19, 1829 ; 28 years. E. 

Mary, wife of John Fullmer, Jan. 7, 1841 ; 39, 4, 19. E. 
Thaddeus W., son of S. W. and M. A. Gage, March 17, 1873; 14, 

1, 14. - E. 

Samuel Gardner, May 3, 1885 ; 64, 6. E. 

Hannah, his wife, July 19, 1860; 40, 5, 6. E. 

Pearley E., their daughter, Sept. 30, 1855; 1 year. E. 

Caroline, wife of William Garlick, May 10, 1881 ; 72 years. E. 
Emma A., only daughter of J. L. and M. T. Garlick, Dec. 6, 1863 ; 

3, 8, 13. E. 

Ezekiel Garlick, June 4, 1832 ; 37 years. E. 



406 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 

Lydia, his wife, Sept. 3, 1828 ; 31 years. R. 

Sally G., wife of Henry Garlick, Feb. 10, 1872; 42 years. R. 

Prank, their son, Oct. 17, 1860; 4, 7, 5. R. 

Captain Samuel Garlick, April 28, 1843 ; 80th year. R. 

Huldah, his wife, Nov. 15, 1878 ; 88, 6. R. 

Samuel Garlick, Sept. 24, 1871 ; 81 years. ' R. 

Ida, daughter of L. B. and B. Garrison, April 22, 1859; 7, 7, 2. A. 

Jeremiah Gatchell, April 12, 1859 ; 41 years. Y. 
Marion E. Gaylord, son of Mrs. E. M. Thomas, April 13, 1840— 

July 23, 1850. R. 

Benjamin Genung, Aug. 20, 1806— March 23, 1888. R. 

John S. Gildersleeve, April 17, 1865; 59, 11, 14. W. 

Melinda, his wife, ^ov. 7, 1866 ; 58, 6, 25. W. 

William S., their son, Sept. 16, 1848; 5 months. W. 

Antoinette E., their daughter, July 15, 1850; 3 months. W. 

Asahel Gillett, March 26, 1826 ; 75th year. N. R. 

Mrs. B. Gillett, July 29, 1874 ; 79, 5, 10. Hu. 

Charles Gillett, Co. D, 90th N. Y. Inf., Aug. 19, 1867 ; 24, 5, 11. E. 

Isaac Gillett, Nov. 28, 1829 ; 45, 2, 1. Hu. 

John Gillett, Aug. 30, 1819 ; 71, 1, 14. Hu. 

John Gillett, Feb. 5, 1866 ; 59 years. L. 

Lucy Mason, wife of John Henry Gillett, Dec. 7, 1880 ; 43, 9, 9. L. 

Marquis N. Gillett, Oct. 3, 1847— July 27, 1876. L. 

Eliza, wife of William Gordon, Nov. 5, 1865 ; 53 years. A. 

Phoebe, their daughter, March 2, 1852; 7, 4, 6. A. 

Phcebe, their daughter, Nov. 30, 1842; 2, 7, 5. A. 

Alfred Graham, Co. A, 9th H. A., Dec. 27, 1871 ; 35 years. Hu. 

Eoxany, wife of Henry Graham, Dec. 9, 1841 ; 41st year. N. R. 

Their infant daughter. N. R. 
Susannah, wife of Nelson Graham, March 10, 1847— April 26, 1892. R. 

Zachariah Graham, July 11, 1852 ; 51, 5, 18. Hu. 

Lydia, his wife, Dec. 31, 1807— Dec. 11, 1886. Hu. 

Naomy, wife of John B. Gray, Nov. 1, 1856; 29, 8, 3. F. 

Bertha, daughter of William H. and Hannah Green, May 2, 1883 ; 

1 month, 11 days. Y. 

Eoswell Greene, May 30, 1862; 106, 1, 29. Hu. 

Abel Grenell, Mar. 30, 1881 ; 89, 0, 3. F. 

Rebecca, his wife, July 21, 1828 ; 28 years. F. 

Polly M., his wife, Sept. 20, 1856 ; 50, 9, 16. F. 

Eebecca Ann, their daughter, July 7, 1842; 2, 8, 9. F. 

Andrew M., their son, Aug. 12, 1852 ; 10 months, 3 days. F. 

George W., their son, July 8, 1857 ; 19, 8, 25. F. 
Ada L., daughter of Abel and Rhoda Grenell, March 3, IS'Sl; 23, 3, 9. F. 



EOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 407 

Mary, wife of Israel Greuell, June 22, 1873 ; 31, 8. F. 

Eva J., Sept. 22, 1868 ; i months, 7 days. F. 

Pearl A., Nov. 10, 1872 ; 2 months, 22 days. F. 

Mary, wife of Henry Greuell, Dee. 30, 1825 ; 26th year. F. 

Catharine, their daughter, Aug. 17, 182-1 ; 10 months, 24 days. F. 

Sally, their daughter, July 17, 1826 ; 11 months, 7 days. F. 

Lucretia A., their daughter, Dec. 22, 1840 ; 18, 11. F. 
Euth Ann, daughter of Henry and Adelia Grenell, June 5, 1852; 

19, 9, 24. F. 

Napoleon B., Feb. 21, 1829 ; 3 months, 7 days. F. 

Oliver J., Nov. 18, 1845 ; 2, 0, 3. F. 

John, Aug. 31, 1830 ; 8 months, 25 days. F. 

Napoleon B., Feb. 23, 1841 ; 1, 9. F. 

Note.— Abel and Henry Grenell were from Connecticut. The latter, who 
had three children by his first wife, Mary Patterson, and ten by his second, died 
Oct. 8, 1879, aged 84 years. Of these children, only two survive, one being Mrs. 
Stephen Weeks, of Rose. His son, Owen, died at 50, in 1885, in Phelps ; William, 
who died at 63, April 17, 1891, is buried here with his kin. 

Lorenzo Griswold, March 4, 1852 ; 43d year. F. 

John W., son of Lorenzo and Elizabeth G., July 20, 1868 ; 20, 4, 13. F. 

Benjamin F., son of same, March 13, 1851 ; 11, 1, 25. F. 

Richard L., son of same. May 27, 1851; 1, 2, 9. F. 

Nelson Griswold, April 1, 1859 ; 48, 1, 16. F. 

William Griswold, Jan. 5, 1852 ; 65, 2, 25. F. 

Rebecca, his wife, Sept 22, 1868 ; 76, 9, 18. F. 

John Groeskopt, Co. K, 86th Inf., Dec. 16, 1884; 36 years. W. 

Amy, wife of Joseph P. Hall, Feb. 25. 1857 ; 22, 3, 14. H. 

Deborah, wife of Stephen Hall, June 19, 1839 ; 36 years. H. 

Deborah, their daughter. May 15, 1839 ; 1 month, 15 days. H. 

Elias Hall, Dec. 7, 1836 ; 45 years. H. 

Jane, his wife, July 22, 1854 ; 57, 6, 4. H. 

Elias T. Hall, Aug. 12, 1846 ; 26, 1, 29. H. 

Joshua Hall, Aug. 29, 1830 ; 44th year. • H. 

Margaret Hall, June 28, 1854 ; 66, 5, 11. H. 
Mary C, daughter of A. S. and T. M. Hall, March 21, 1853; 14, 9, 24. R. 

Thomas Hall, Dec. 2, 1843 ; 80th year. H. 

Amy, his wife, Sept. 18, 1829 ; 64th year. H. 
Matilda, daughter of Alonzo and Marilla Hamilton, Oct. 18, 1877 ; 

1, 2, 27. W. 

John Harmon, Jan. 19, 1887 ; 88 years. R. 

Clarissa, his wife. May 30, 1876 ; 72 years. R. 

Almon Harper, June 3, 1828— April 3, 1884. R. 

Sally Ann, his wife, Aug. 1, 1832— Jan. 30, 1887. R. 



408 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 

Everett B., their son, June 11, 1869— April 11, 1883. E. 

Buel Harper, April 10, 1855 ; 56, 9, 25. W. 

Daniel Harper, April 13, 1855 ; 61, 3, 23. W. 
Ameriah, son of Daniel and Mary Harper, Dec. 21, 1844; 21, 7, 13. W. 

Sarah, wife of A. Harper, March 22, 1842 ; 72, 5, 15. W. 

William H. Hart, Nov. 1, 1863 ; 22, 8, 2. E. 

William V. Havens, April 24, 1875 ; 95, 8, 21. E. 

Susan, his wife, March 12, 1848 ; 64, 4, 19. E. 

Henry Haviland, July 22, 1857 ; 57 years. F. 
His children : 

Charles, Aug. 29, 1830 ; 4 months, 7 days. 

Charles, March 30, 1840 ; 5 months, 26 days. 

John, Aug. 14, 1845 ; 4 months, 7 days. 

Katharine, Sept. 27, 1848 ; 12, 5, 29. 

Elizabeth, March 15, 1851 ; 7, 10, 14. 

Emma E., June 27, 1852 ; 1, 1, 9. 

John, Feb. 28, 1854 ; 5, 8, 1. 

Daniel Hayford, Feb. 21, 1841 ; 54 years. Hu. 

Euth, wife of Daniel Hayford, March 5, 1852 ; 56 years. F. 

L. Jenette, widow' of B. W. Hazard, April S, 1843 ; 40th year. C. 

Sally, wife of Andrew Healy, June 9, 1857 ; 58 yeai's. E. 

Gideon Henderson, Sept. 12, 1869 ; 79, 11, 11. L. 

Deborah, his wife. May 5, 1876 ; 84, 9, 6. L. 
Eodney, son of Benjamin and Catharine D. Hendrick, April 11, 

1848; 1, 9, 3. E. 

Simeon Hendrix, Oct. 4, 1844 ; 69, 8, 2. A. 

Lovinia, his wife, Aug. 14, 1849 ; 75, 7, 10. A. 
Addison L., son of J. A. and M. A. Hetta, Feb. 10, 1866; 1, 7, 21. E. 

Martha I., daughter of same, Oct. 23, 1869 ; 1, 4, 9. E. 

Mary, wife of Thomas Hewson, Jan. 11, 1871 ; 62. 4, 26. Y. 

George H., their son, June 23, 1857 ; 15, 0, 28. T. 

Moses Hickok, Dec. 6, 1826 ; 56, 8. N. E. 

Zervia Felton, his wife, Nov." 1, 1819 ; 39, 6. N. E. 

Joseph M., their son, Aug. 14, 1822 ; 20, 1. N. E. 

Caroline, their daughter, Sept. 3, 1819 ; 14, 6. N. E. 

William Hickok, Aug. 25, 1871 ; 71, 7. E. 

Sophia Gunn, his wife, July 12, 1881 ; 77, 0, 25. E. 

Sophronia, their daughter, June 18, 1868 ; 39 years. E. 

Esther, wife of Uriah T. Hill, July 17, 1867 ; 60 years. E. 
Mary S., wife of Curtis Hill, and daughter of Eeuben and Hannah 

Sears, Feb. 2, 1794— Sept. 22, 1866. E. 
Ina S., daughter of C. D. and S. A. L. Hinman, Aug. 13, 1863 ; 3, 

3, 29. E. 



ROSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 



409 



Jester L. Holbrook, Nov. 8, 1808— Aug. 27, 1882. E- 

Margaret, his wife, April 9, 1814— May 1, 1SS7. R- 

Franklin J., their son, Sept. 3, 1841— Dec. S, 1S42. E- 

Silas Holcomb, Feb. 7, 1878 ; 81, 8. C. 

Frelove E., his wife, Jan. 26, 1875 ; 80. 5. C. 

Willard S., their son, April 17, 1853; 24, 6. C. 

George Hollafolla, Feb. 5, 1878 ; 44, 6. E- 

Lydia, wife of Jesse Hopping, Sept. 11, 1868 ; 89, 10, 5. E. 

Martha Ann, wife of Jesse Hopping, Dee. 2. 1S77 ; 70. 2. 11. E. 

Edward Horn, Dec. 22, 1889 ; 88 years. E. 

Lucinda, his wife, March 15, 1886; 78 years. E. 

Anna Bell Horton, Aug. 28, 1881 ; 5, 9. 18. E. 

Betsey, wife of Barzilla Howard, July 17, 1846 ; 70 years. H. 

Frankie, son of F. E. and Carrie Howard, Sept. 20, 1882 ; 21 days. E. 

William Howard, Jan. 8, 1818— May 14. 1891. E. 

William H. Howard, March 20, 1855 : 63, 2, 20. A. 

Martha, his wife, Jan. 3, 1866 ; 67, 4, 20. A, 

George Howland, Oct. 30, 1869 ; 48 years. E 
Harriet, his wife. May 24, 1850 ; 26, 3, 15. 

Almira, wife of Alonzo Hubbard, and daughter of John and Betsey 

Kellogs, Jan. 31, 1856 : 27, 3, 4. 
John M., son of Alonzo and Almira Hubbard, July IS, 1853; 1 

month, 18 days. 

Coral, daughter of A. and C. Hubbard, Sept. 15, 1864; 2, 9. H. 
Jennie May, daughter of Civilian and Louisa Hubbard, Feb. 15, 

1874; 3, 7,2, H. 

Orestes Hubbard, Feb. 20, 1865 ; 74, 9, 14. H. 

Sally, his wife, July 30, 1879 ; 85 years. H. 

Phtebe, wife of Nodadiah Hubbard, May 27, 1821 ; 63 years. W. 

Thankful, wife of same, Feb. 1, 1828 : 75 years. W. 

Amy, wife of Samuel B. Hufiman, Aug. 9, 1847 ; 43, 0, 26. H. 

Deborah, daughter of John and Eunice Huffman, May 17, 18.34; 

1, 2, 25. B, 

Jacob C. Huffman, Sept. 12, 1862 ; 73, 5. E. 

Catharine, his wife, Dec. 18, 1869 ; 75, 4. E, 

Eliza J., daughter of M. N. and S. Humphrey, Oct. 18, 1844 ; 2, 9, 5. W. 

James O. Hunn, Aug. 14, 1861 ; 39, 4, 23. E 

Parson A. Hunn, June 10, 1868 ; 40, 9. E 

Harrison K., son of P. A. and M. A. Hunn, April 27, 1879; 

18, 10, 18. E 

Samuel Hunn, Aug. 16, 1795— May 28, 1875. R 

Sally, his wife, Nov. 16, 1803— Aug. 8, 1877. E 

Sophia, daughter of B. and T. Hurter, Aug. 16, 1863 ; 7, 1, 17. L 



R. 



H. 



410 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 

Andrew Hiitchinss, Co. H, 9th H. A., Sept. 26, 1877 ; 72 years. F. 

Lydia, wife of Asa Hutchins, Dec. 16, 1862 ; 71 years. R. 

Loranda, daughter of John and Rohala Hyde, Dec. 31, 1835; 21 

years. R. 

Chester S. Irish, Oct. 23, 1839— Sept. 23, 1873. C. 

Lydia, wife of Bartlett James, March 20, 1838 ; 37, 0, 25. A. 

Nathan Jeffers, May 23, 1854 ; 63, 1, 23. F. 

Lucy, his wife, Feb. 21, 1837 ; 47th year. F. 
Lucy, daughter of Nathan and S. M. Jeffers, March 30, 1864 ; 12, 4, 6. F. 

James, son of same, Feb. 24, 1866 ; 18, 5. F. 

Nathan Jeffers, Jr., Oct. 2, 1852 ; 34, 5, 10. R. 

Eleanor, his daughter, Oct. 30, 1851 ; 1, 6, 2. R. 

Robert N. Jeffers, April 22, 1820— June 11, 1893. R. 

Mariah, his wife, Oct. 1, 1814— May 22, 1863. R. 

Robert, their son, Aug. 26, 1854— July 28, 1857. R.. 

Eoby, son of Henry and Mary Jeffers, May 14, 1879. R. 

Ira S., son of Theodore and Mary Jenkins, Jan. 27, 1854 ; 1, 4. H. 

Alanson, son of A. and S. Jewell, Dee. 4, 1875 ; 23, 5, 5. Y. 

Maranda Barrett, wife of Frank Jewell, Dec. 6, 1887 ; 24, 4. H. 
Margaret D. Holcomb, wife of Francis M. Johnson, July 8, 1889; 

62 years. C. 

Harriet, wife of Samuel Jones, Nov. 28, 1832 ; 40th year. C. 

John E. Jones, April 12, 1812— Jan. 30, 1877. C. 

Frances H., his daughter, Feb. 20, 1864; 9, 7, 20. C. 

Peter F. Jones, Nov. 28, 1857 ; 51, 5, 18. C. 

Lieut. William Jones, Co. K, 44th Inf., May 14, 1862 ; 23, 4. Hu. 

Wyan Kanouse, May 16, 1824— Aug. 20, 1891. R. 

Benjamin Kellogg, July 6, 1779— Nov. 16, 1829. C. 
Pamelia, his wife, also wife of Ebenezer Pierce, Jan., 1862 ; 83 years. C. 

Charles B. Kellogg, Feb. 11, 1854 ; 41, 0, 8. C. 

Elmer Lavern Kellogg, Oct. 29, 1860— July 25, 1887. C. 

John Kellogg, May 25, 1876 ; 74 years. C. 

Betsey, his wife, Oct. 14, 1807 -Aug. 11, 1886. C- 

Paulina, their daughter, Aug. 23, 1851 ; 16, 6, 20. C. 

Lewis B. Kellogg, Oct. 28, 1835— Dec. 3, 1875. C, 

Mary A., daughter of E. B. and S. M. Kellogg, June 9, 1843; 

4 7 2 C 

Charles Kelsey, Oct. 7, 1857 ; 75, 9, 24. W. 

Thomas King, Co. B, 27th Inf., Dec. 4, 1889 ; 54 years. R. 

Meigs Kirkland, Oct. 16, 1865 ; 71 years. A. 

Henry C. Klinck, Oct. 5, 1831— Sept. 28, 1876. R. 

Caroline A., his wife, June 30, 1831— Jan. 15, 1892. R. 

Amos, son of A. M. Knight, April 10, 1851 ; 4, 9, 24. W. 



EOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 



411 



Alfred, son of A. M. Knight, Oct. 15, 1862 ; 11 months, 16 days. W. 

Erwin, son of A. M. Knight, Feb. 28, 1870 ; 3, 9, 13. W. 

Hannah, wife of Simeon Knight, June 24, 1834 ; 63d year. W. 

Sarah, wife of George Knight, Oct. 29, 1878 ; 26 years. W. 

Orrin Lackey, Dec. 26, 1831 ; 40, 10, 4. F. 
Sarah, wife of Orrin Lackey, also of Jesse Lyman, Dec. 21, 1869 ; 

76 years. ^' 
Lucy Ann, daughter of Orrin and Sarah Lackey, March 6, 1859 ; 

43, 9. ^- 
JuddB., Jr., son of Jndd B. and M. G. Lackey, Oct. 15, 1865; 

9, 8, 21. ^• 

Sarah A., wife of Sanford G. Lackey, Nov. 2, 1849 ; 29, 4, 2. F. 

Mary L., wife of Rev. B. Ladd, March 26, 1848 ; 40th year. R. 

Ira Lake, Feb. 5, 1864 ; 66, 8. 6. L. 

Mary J., wife of Allen Lake, Feb. 4, 1861 ; 25, 9, 13. F. 

Wellington Lake, killed at the Wilderness, May 6, 1864 ; 27, 5, 12. L. 
Delia, daughter of John and Jane E. Lamb, Oct. 17, 1864 ; 11, 10, 18. R. 

Fidelia, daughter of William and Almira Lamb, Sept. 10, 1848 ; 

6 months. ^• 

Harvey M., son of same, March 10, 1843 ; 9 months, 10 days. R- 

Zenette, daughter of same, Aug. 24, 1849 ; 3, 0, 28. R- 

Isaac Lamb, May 22, 1862 ; 86, 5. N. R. 

Sally, his wife, July 4, 1846 ; 70th year. N. R. 

Thomas Lambert, Oct. 11, 1818— March 9, 1884. R. 

John Lamoreaux, Nov. 29, 1860 ; 75, 1, 20. C. 

Martha, his wife, March 8, 1865; 76, 4, 7. C. 

Susan, their daughter, June 19, 1854 ; 30, 10, 21. C. 

Peter Lamoreaux, Dec. 22, 1850 ; 89, 6, 20. C. 

Elizabeth, his wife, Sept. 6, 1845 ; 84th year. C. 

Barbara A., wife of Edward D. Lanipson, June 6, 1816 — Aug. 8, 1891. R. 

Margaret I., daughter of H. P. Lampson, May 10, 1858 ; 11, 3, 15. R. 

Polly, wife of David F. Lampson, April 5, 1846 ; 54, 1. R- 

Frankie, son of J. and S. M. Lane, April 27, 1880 ; 4 mouths. R. 

Johnson V. Lane, Sept. 21, 1840— July 5, 1890. R- 

Frankie, his son, Dec. 19, 1879— April 27, 1880. R. 

Nancy, wife of Myron Laugley, June 15, 1849 ; 40, 1, 7. R. 

Julia, their daughter, Oct. 4, 1850 : 16, 0, 8. R- 

Franklin Lee, Oct. 9, 1853 ; 20, 7, 5. E. 

Joel N. Lee, March 5, 1897— Oct. 20, 1880. R- 

Laurissa A., his wife, Jan. 20, 1801- Dec. 7, 1876. R- 

Lyman Lee, April 18, 1785— Jan. 1, 1873. E. 

Betsey, his wife, Aug. 3, 1786— Jan. 13, 1873. E. 

Serotia, daughter of Lyman and Mary Lee, Jan. 6, 1846 ; 36, 1, 11. E. 



412 EOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 

Mary, wife of Joel Lee, Feb. 28, 1855 ; 93, 8, 13. E. 

Harvey, son of L. and S. Legg, Aug. 23, 1854 ; 1, 9. E. 

Leonard Lerock, July 4, 1859 ; 55, 9, 21. E. 

Eosetta Lerock, Jan. 4, 1890 ; 71 years. E. 
In memory of William H. Lerock, killed in the Custer Massacre, 

June 25, 1876; 22, 10, 11. E. 

Susan M. Lindley, April 14, 1832— Oct. 23, 1866. E. 

William H. L. Lindley, July 9, 1866— July 23, 1887. E. 

Eunice W., wife of James Livermore, Aug. 15, 1870 ; 74, 2, 26. C. 

Hannah, wife of William Loryman, Nov. 22, 1858 ; 76 years. F. 

Anna, daughter of N. and L. Lovejoy, Dec. 2-1, 1860 ; 22, 9, 1. L. 

Daniel Lovejoy, Feb. 24, 1861; 58, 8. L. 

Sophia, his wife, Sept. 20, 1867 ; 63, 8. L. 

Catharine, their daughter, June 26, 1833 ; 2, 10, 10. L. 
Dwight B., son of Darius and S. S. Lovejoy, Nov. 18, 1853 ; 3, 1, 8. L. 

James Lovejoy, March 23, 1870 ; 42 years. L. 

Parmer Lovejoy, Oct. 4, 1830 ; 63 years. L. 

Esther, his wife, Oct. 7, 1858 ; 88, 3, 5. L. 

Silas Lovejoy, April 7, 1877 ; 86, 1, 5. L. 

Anna, his wife, Dec. 20, 1873 ; 80, 7, 2. L. 

Marion, their daughter, July 9, 1833 ; 2, 4, 24. L. 

Herman, their son. May 10, 18.31 ; 1, 5. L. 

William, their son, Feb. 7, 1830 ; 7, 11, 7. L. 

William Lovejoy, May 16, 1865 ; 67, 6, 16. L. 

Sophia, his wife, April 4, 1878 ; 84, 9, 9. L. 

Selecta, their daughter, Sept. 30, 1831 ; 1, 3. L. 
William B., son of H. E. and S. J. Lovejoy, March 13, 1853; 2, 7, 13. L. 

Egbert, son of same, June 15, 1849 ; 1, 7, 9. L. 
Mary L., daughter of Hiram and S. M. Loveless, Aug. 19, 1850 ; 4 

months, 20 days. C. 

Harriet, wife of H. Lovett, Feb. 20, 1839 ; 27, 10, 14. A. 

Ella D., daughter of J. and E. Lyman, March 26, 1874 ; 17, 10. E. 
Ellen H., daughter of L. A. and M. Lyman, Jan. 21, 1851; 11 

months, 23 days. F. 

Henry G. Lyman, March 10, 1850 : 30, 6, 12. E. 

Jesse Lyman, Aug. 17, 1863; 69, 9, 11. F. 

Betsey, his wife, May 4, 1831 ; 37, 10, 20. F. 

Levi A. Lyman, Sept. 27, 1851 ; 38, 9, 15. F. 

Eebecca, wife of Milo S. Lyman, Nov. 15, 1826— May 18, 1892. E. 

John W. Lyman, their sou, Feb. 11, 1858— May 23, 1881. E. 

Samuel Lyman, Aug. 10, 1794— May 28, 1877. E. 

Clementine, his wife, July 7, 1793— June 25, 1870. E. 

Mary Lyman, May 16, 1821— March 27, 1885. E. 



ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 413 

Darwin A., son of Lothrop M. and Lois P. Lyon, July 22, 1846 ; 1, 

3, 4. W. 
Parley Lyon, March 17, 1846 ; 57, 6, 29. R. 
Philo F.,'bis daughter, July 20, 1849 ; 27, 6, 21. R. 
Deacon Walter Lyon, Sept. 8, 1874 ; 84, 0, 19. W. 
Lucretia, his wife, Nov. 8, 1846 ; 59th year. W. 
Elmira, their daughter, Nov. 29, 1850 ; 21, 6, 10. W. 
Jane A. McCamby, Sept. 3, 1853 ; 38, 4, 22. W. 
Charles G. McCarthy, Sept. 16, 1852 ; 31, 1, 2. A. 
Leonora F., his daughter, Jan. 8," 1854 ; 3, 9, 22. A. 
William G. McCoy, Co. C, lUth Inf., Aug. 29, 1863 ; 24 years. E. 
Elijah McGraw, June 23, 1854 ; 47, 2, 5. B. 
Jeremiah, son of Elijah and Phcebe McGraw, July 20, 1847; 18, 11, 10. B. 
Franklin, son of same, Nov. 11, 1847 ; 7 months, 10 days. B. 
Isaac Mcintosh, March 13, 1838 ; 25, 2. A. 
James Mcintosh, Sept. 23, 1828— April 28, 1892. R. 
Jairus B. McKoon, June 25, 1823— Sept. 3, 1885. C. 
Martin W., son of J. B. and R. M. McKoon, Aug. 17, 1855 ; 3, 5, 11. C. 
William McKoon, June 14, 1870 ; 78, 7, 21. C. 
Lucy, his wife, June 11, 1854 ; 64, 9, 22. C. 
Eraeline, wife of D. McMullen, and daughter of Minoris and Mar- 
garet Smith, July 21, 1849 ; 26, 8. W. 
John McWharf, April 5, 1869 ; 95 years. ' R- 
Hannah, his wife, Nov. 3, 1872 ; 88 years. R- 
Alonzo A., son of D. A. and E. A. Mallery, Sept. 27, 1851 ; 2, 5, ]9. F. 
Thomas Markham, April 10, 1884 ; 70, 6. R. 
Daniel Marquat, Co. F, lUth Inf., May 20, 1877 ; 34 years. Y. 
Henry Marquat, March 9, 1814— April 17, 1887. Y. 
Philip Marquat, March 11, 1861 ; 48, 6, 7. Y. 
Caroline A. A., his wife, July 4, 1851 ; 23, 2. Y 
Chester, their son, Nov. 21, 1852 ; 1, 6, 26. Y 
Verma J. Marquat, June 24, 1881 ; 3, 10, 21. 
Leaman H. Marquat, May 30, 1882 ; 2. 0, 29. Y. 
Hannah J., wife of John Marriott, Nov. 20, 1871 ; 36, 2, 14. F. 
Amos Marsh, Nov. 9, 1866 ; 69, 10, 9. C. 
Polly, his wife, Dec. 27, 1873 ; 74, 10. C. 
Lucinda, daughter of, June 19, 1874 ; 32, 9. C. 
H. D. Mason, June 18, 1805— Dec. 24, 1889. L. 
Elizabeth, wife of Daniel Martin, March 29, 1827— May 30, 1884. S. S, 
Sarah, wife of Fernando Merrill, Jan. 25, 1870 ; 19, 2, 25. H. 
Hnttie, his son, May 23, 1872— Sept. 19, 1872. H 
Christina L., wife of George Milem, Sept. 27, 1887; 39, 10, 24. E 
Thirza, wife of William :\Iilem. Aug. 26, 1856; 34 years. E 



Y. 



414 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 

John Miller, Sept. 25, 1827 ; 71, 8, 15. W. 

Laura Millias, Oct. 28, 1844 ; 39th year. B. 

George H., son of John and A. E. Millias, Jan. 31, 1857 ; 3 months. B, 
Anna May, daughter of Charles and Elizabeth Miner, March 10, 1881; 

2, 2, 25. " E. 

Martin Miner, Oct. 25, 1841 ; 56 years. L. 

Ami, his sou, Dec. 31, 1839 ; 20 years. L. 

Sally A., wife of Fernando Miner, April 22, 1875 ; 31, 4, 7. E. 

Heury B. Miriek, Sept. 11, 1841 ; 24, 8, 17. E. 
Horatio, son of Hiram and Mary B. Miriek, Feb. 16, 1835 ; 3 months, 

8 days. E. 
Pollyette G., daughter of George W. and Elsie O. Miriek, Dec. 22, 

1848 ; 2, 0, 19. E. 

Solomon Miriek, Aug. 11, 1839 ; 67th year. E. 

Thomas M. Miriek, Nov. 7, 1841 ; 28, 5, 10. E. 
George O., son of Thomas M. and Sophrouia Miriek, March 3, 1841 ; 

11 months. R. 

Jane, daughter of William Mitchell, June 24, 1867 ; 35, 9. F. 

John Mitchell, Jan. 3, 1855 ; 71, 6, 6. F. 

Permelia, his wife, March 7, 1873 ; 81 years. F. 

Leonard T. Mitchell, June 28, 1819— March 8, 1865. R. 

Sarah, his daughter, May 10, 1886 ; 25, 8. E. 

Frank A., his son, Sept. 20, 1887 ; 30, 1. E. 

Lydia G., daughter of B. and S. A. Mitchell, Feb. 14, 1866; 1, 3, 14. F. 

Philander Mitchell, Nov. 24, 1870 ; 77 years. F. 

John, his son, Sept. 1, 1849 ; 17th year. F. 

Sarah, daughter of William andN. J. Mitchell, Aug. 9, 1861 ; 5, 2, 20. F. 
Conkliu, sou of Joseph and Harriet Moon, Jau. 27, 1848 ; 1 month, 

24 days. A. 

May E., daughter of same, Jan. 10, 1852 ; 4, 0, 14. A. 

John, sou of same, Sept. 19, 1856 ; 5, 10. A. 

Wilbur A., son of same, Sept. 17, 1856 ; 1, 9. A. 

Cornelia, wife of John Moon, Oct. 7, 1843 ; 74 years. A. 

Joseph Moon, Oct. 26, 1858 ; 48, 1, 6. A. 

Hope W. Moon, Feb. 8, 1882 ; 84 years. A. 

Elijah Morey, April 8, 1836 ; 26th year. E. 

Martin Morse, March 2, 1851 ; 68, 6, 10. F. 

Dorman Munsell, Feb. 4, 1852 ; 61, 8, 16. L. 

Jerusha, his wife. May 11, 1881 ; 88, 3, 22. L. 

Emily S., wife of Alonzo H. Mudge, Sept. 11, 1891 ; 45 years. E. 

0. W. Murphy, Sept. 3, 1867 ; 25 years. E. 

Henry Near, March 28, 1861 ; S6th year. W. 

Hannah, his wife, Oct. 17, 1861 ; 82d year. W. 



ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. -ilS 

Nelson Neeley, M. D., Assistant Surgeon 57th Inf., May 26, 1879; 

44 years. ■"• 

Anna, wife of Jonathan Nichols, Dec. 17, 1SS4 ; 77, 6. L. 

Eoxy v., wife of John Nichols, Dec. 25, 1848 ; 29th year. E. 

Charles G. Oaks, Jan. 12, 1802— March 21, 1883. E. 

William H., his son, Aug. 10, 1839— April 23, 1857. E. 

Joseph B. Oaks, Aug. 20, 1885 ; 48 years. E. 

William H., son of J. B. and E. J. Oaks, Dec. 10, 1865 ; 4, 5, 19. E. 

Elizabeth, wife of Samuel Oshorn, Jan. 13, 1885; 58 years. E. 

Ella, daughter of E. and J. Osborn, April 5, 1866 ; 2, 9, 23. E. 

Infant son of E. and J. Oshorn. B- 

Francis Osborn, June 4, 1866 ; 77 years. E- 

Martha, his wife, Aug. 14, 1856; 56, 6. E. 

Catharine, their daughter, June 2, 1850 ; 18 years. E. 

Isaac Osborn, Sept. 3, 1854 ; 35, 1, 16. E. 

Alvira, his wife. May 16, 1851 ; 22, 3, 12. E. 

Sarah A., their daughter, Nov. 15, 1849; 9 months, 20 days. E. 

John Osborn, June 22, 1853 ; 72, 10, 9. E. 
Mary, his wife, also wife of George Doughty, Feb. 2, 1860 ; 71st year. E. 

Elizabeth, their daughter, Nov. 6, 1847 ; 25, 10, 25. E. 

Mary Ann, their daughter, April 17, 1849 ; 21st year. E. 

Joseph Osborn, Jan. 19, 1845 ; 34th year. E. 

Artemus Osgood, Feb. 21, 1887 ; 88 years. C. 

Harriet, his wife, March 7, 1870; 66, 4, 4. C 

Eudora M., wife of Lucien H. Osgood, Nov. 20, 1870 ; 28, 3, 10. C. 

Samuel Otto, Nov. 2, 1807— Jan. 14, 1870. E. 

Eliza, his wife, Feb. 3, 1813— April 7, 1857. E. 

Sarah M., also his wife, Aug. 13, 1830— Oct. 26, 1866. E. 

J. Guilford Otto, Sept. 13, 1836— July 1. 1863. E. 

James S. Otto, Aug. 1, 1839— April 21, 1864, at Andersouville, Ga. E. 

H. Eufine Otto, Sept. 30, 1846— Aug. 19, 1848. ' E. 

Fremont B. Otto, Dec. 22, 1861— April 16, 1882. E. 

Sheldon R. Overton, Dee. 10, 1800— April 27, 1887. C. 

Catharine Eoe, his wife, Dec. 22, 1814— Jan. 30, 1891. C. 

Harriet S., their daughter, Aug. 12, 1850— Aug. 19, 1868. C. 

E. Everett, their son, Nov. 28, 1852— Jan. 7, 1875. C. 

Mertie Bell, daughter of George and Catharine Parslow, Sept. 5, 

1889; 1, 5, 10. E. 

James H. Patten, Nov. 5, 1859 ; 37, 9, 9. W. 

Sidney Patten, Feb. 1, 1856 ; 49, 7, 6. W. 

Benjamin W. Patterson, March 24, 1853 ; 29 years. W. 

Peter Payler, June 2, 1849 ; 32, 9. F. 

Alice H., his daughter, March 20, 1848; 2, 7. F. 



416 EOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 

Alanson, son of Asahel and Mary Peck, Jan. 3, 1828 ; 30, 2, 7. H. 
Frances E., daughter of Harlow and Betsey Peck, Sept. 9, 1855; 

1, 9, 14. H. 

George F., son of same, June 22, 1865 ; 4, 1, 19. H. 

Horace Peck, Nov. 15, 1865 ; 76, 5, 22. H. 

Anna, his wife, Aug. 1, 1880 ; 87, 4. H. 

Willard Peck, Dec. 22, 1855 : 34, 2, 22. C. 

Franklin P., his son, Dec. 14, 1853 ; 10 months, 16 days. C. 

Horace B, his son, Oct 5, 1850 ; 1, 11, 9. C. 

James O. Perry, March 5, 1851 ; 16th year. E. 

Abram Phillips, Jan. 11, 1884 ; 81, 1, 8. Hu. 

J. H. Phillips, June 3, 1862 ; 25 years. E. 

Stephen Phillips, Co. E, 10th Cav., Dec. 14, 1864 ; 23 years. E. 

William Phillips, Sept. 17, 1847 ; 63d year. E. 
Ebeuezer Pierce, a soldier of the Eevolution, March 11, 1854; 91 years. F. 

Mary, his wife, Sept. 26, 1831 ; 67th year. F. 

Mary, daughter of A. and D. Pierceall, March 26, 1851 ; 10, 3, 7. B. 
Josephine, daughter of O. and J. A. Piersons, Sept. 28, 1848; 2, 7, 16. H. 

Martha E. Sedore, wife of E. T. Pimm, March 26, 1886 ; 50, 5, 8. E. 

Nancy C, wife of William A. Pisley, Oct. 9, 1848 ; 40th year. E. 

Absalom D. Potter, Feb. 18, 1858 ; 49, 10, 28. F. 

Lucy, his wife. May 15, 1863 ; 49 years. F. 
Lillie A., daughter of Levi and Miranda Potter, Oct. 11, 1865 ; 3, 8. L. 

Clarence L., son of same, March 3, 1869 ; 3 years. L. 
Caroline E., daughter of Sardis and E. Preston, Oct. 4, 1845 ; 

1, 4, 26. N. E. 

Joseph W., son of same, Aug. 17, 1847 ; 1, 3, 14. N. E. 

Nabby, wife of Joseph Preston, June 9, 1843 ; 62, 9, 17. N. E. 

Wealthy Preston, July 4, 1848 ; 67, 2, 26. E. 

Elizabeth, daughter of Daniel and Eebecca Price, Sept. 11, 1831 ; 1, 2. F. 

Merritt Purdy, Jan. 16, 1874 ; 65 years. H. 

Almanda, his wife, Oct. 11, 1869 ; 54 years. H. 

Elizabeth, wife of Peter Eage, Sept. 12, 1859 ; 54, 1, 25. A. 

Peter, their son, Sept. 24 ; 7, 6, 4. A. 

Allie, daughter of C. and M. Eelyea, May 18, 1872 ; 1, 10, 16. E. 

Jerusha Eeynolds, Oct. 31, 1846 ; 73d year. C. 

Martin J. Eeynolds, Feb. 12, 1854 ; 38th year. A. 

Rebecca, wife of J. Eeynolds, Oct. 18, 1840 ; 57, 4, 9. A. 

Susan Eeynolds, Jan. 20, 1871 ; 51, 0, 16. A. 

Arnold K. Ehea, Nov. 14, 1852 ; 32, 3, 16. F. 

Allen B., his son, Dec. 17, 1846 ; 3 months, 17 days. F. 

John Ehea, March 31, 1847 ; 69 years. F. 

Bahama, wife of Elijah Eice, Sept. 7, 1847 ; 70, 7, 7. B. 



ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 417 

Franklin J., son of J. G. and L. H. Rice, Aug. 19, 18.58 ; 8, 0, 16. H. 
Levine, daughter of S. D. and L. J. Rice, April 16, 1859; 7 months, 

10 days. H. 
Lydia M., daughter of Hand C. Richmond, Sept. 27, 1847; 10 months. N. R. 

Ellen L., daughter of H. and O. Riker, June 1, 1854 ; 1, 9, 2. R. 

Margaret, wife of Andrew Rinehart, Feb. 4, 1868 ; 51, 11, 26. S. S. 

Silas B., their son, Nov., 1857 ; 5 years. S. S. 

Caroline, wife of Alpheus Roberts, Sept. 15, 1852 ; 28, 10, 15. L. 

Alice M., their daughter, July 16, 1851— Sept. 8, 1889. L. 

Emmet A., son of Emery and Maria Roberts. L. 

John Roberts, April 7, 1855 ; 83, 5, 10. L. 

Dorcas S., wife of A. E. Robinson, Nov. 17, 1831— Nov. 17, 1887. R. 

Henry Robinson, Oct. 13, 1874 ; 74 years. R. 

Elizabeth, his wife. May 22, 1875 ; 73 years. R. 

Catharine, their daughter, Oct. 21, 1849 ; 22 years. R. 

Eliza, their daughter, March 24, 1875 ; 40 years. R. 

William H., their son, Sept. 30, 1872 ; 33 years. E. 

Irving J., their son, Nov. 24, 1875 ; 28 years. R. 

Austin Roe, April 20, 1864 ; 81, 6, 2. C. 

Sarah, his wife, Sept. 29, 1863 ; 73, 8, 18. C. 

John B. Roe, Dec. 9, 1818— May 8, 1885. R. 

Roxana, his wife, Dec. 3, 1847 ;" 30, 4, IS. Hu. 

Emeline, wife of Elder E. B. Rolf, June 12, 1861 ; 48, 7, 26. A. 

Francis M., son of John C. and Caroline Rounds, Jan. 3, 1892 ; 13, 

7, 2. E. 

Ann, wife of Israel Roy, July 14, 1882 ; 70 years. P. 

Alexander, their son, March 24, 1847 ; 1 year. F. 
John H. Ruppert, Co. H, 148th Inf., May 29, 1822, Willinghausen, 

Germany— April 1, 1882. R. 

Ambrose Ryon, April 3, 1855 ; 84 years. Hu. 

Gamaliel Sampson, March 4, 1870 ; 75 years. C. 
Minnie B., daughter of A. P. and L. L. Sampson, Sept. 26, 1869— 

Nov. 11, 1887. E. 

Martin Saxton, Feb. 18, 1891 ; 63, 0, 18. C. 

Eebecca A., his wife, Jan. 12, 1877 ; 44 years. C. 

Artemas G., son of A. and L. Scott, Aug. 7, 1857 ; 33, 3, 10. H. 

Ebenezer Scott, Aug. 22, 1851 ; 62d year. B. 

Charles E., son of E. and C. Scott, Sept. 19, 1848 ; 1, 3, 18. B. 

Ezekiel Scott, Sept. 13, 1848 ; 90 years. H. 

Olive, his wife, Oct. 3, 1835 ; 73 years. H. 

Hester Scott, Aug. 9, 1859 ; 18, 10, 23. H. 

Jesse D. Scott, Sept. 9, 1844 ; 24 years. H. 

Phcebe L., wife of A. Scott, March 11, 1875 ; 63, 10, 20. H. 
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418 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 

Zelina, wife of Ira Scott, July 20, 1796, Winsted, Conn. — July 8, 

1871. H. 

Almeda, their daughter, Oct. 8, 1824; 6, 3. H. 

Anna, wife of Monroe Seager, June 6, 1871 ; 31st year. Y. 

Harriet, wife of same, April 23, 1877 ; 26, 11, 5. Y. 

David L., son of Benjamin and Louisa Seager, Aug. 6, 1872; 6 

months, 7 days. Y. 

John Seager, March 10, 1882 ; 50, 5, 27. Y. 

John Seager, Jr., March 31, 1887 ; 23, 4. Y. 

Mary Jane, wife of Asher W. Seager, May 30, 1843— Dec. 1, 1890. R. 

Annie, wife of Orange Sears, Sept. 17, 1841 ; 59 years. H. 

Charlotte A., daughter of Oscar and Mary Sears, July 4, 1845; 2, 8, 13. H. 

Mehitable, wife of James Sears, March 11, 1826 ; 45th year. B. 

Eeuben Sears, April 27, 1773— May 13, 1850! E. 

Hannah, his wife, Dec. 23, 1772— Jan. 16, 1856. R. 

Wellington, son of J. W. and A. Sears, April 7, 1863 ; 7, 6. A. 

William B. Sears, Oct. 27, 1801— July 3, 1883. E. 

Emmarett, his wife, March 3, 1821— Jan. 23, 1858. R. 

Clara B., daughter of William A. and Syrena Sebring, Sept. 5, 1847; 

5, 4, 1. Y. 

Amos J., son of same, Feb. 1, 1845 ; 1, 2, 20. Y. 

Conrad Sedore, Jan. 14, 1872; 70, 2, 10. • E. 

Maranda, his daughter, Dec. 19, 1848 ; 15, 10, 11. E. 

Captain Benjamin Seelye, April 15, 1854 ; 81, 1. L. 

Eunice, his wife. May 27, 1863 ; 84, 2. L. 

Delos Seelye, Aug. 27, 1870 ; 54, 2, 19. C. 

Almanda, his wife, Dec. 11, 1883; 65, 6. C. 

Sarah L., their daughter, Sept. 14, 1842; 8 months, 27 days. C. 

Hermon G., their son, Jan. 5, 1853 ; 23 days. C. 

Deacon George Seelye, Nov. 12, 1806— D3C. 30, 1885. C. 

Polly Catharine, his wife, June 5, 1807— Sept. 19, 1829. C. 

Heman Ensign, their son, July 4, 1829 — Aug. 25, 1829. C. 

Joseph Seelye, Feb. 9, 1854 ; 77, 11. C. 

Elizabeth, his wife, Sept. 10, 1833 ; 53, 10, 7. C. 

Ensign, their son, killed by a falling tree, April 1, 1818 ; 9, 8, 15. C. 

Bertie J., son of L. H. and F. H. Shannon, Dec. 3, 1885 ; 1, 9, 15. Y. 

George M. Shannon, Aug. 2, 1868 ; 67, 9, 16. Y. 

Ehoda, his wife, Jan. 15, 1884 ; 79, 7, 7. Y. 

Lydia, their daughter, Nov. 26, 1848 ; 17, 4, 23. Y. 

Margaret, their daughter, Nov. 10, 1848 ; 9, 9, 21. Y. 

James B., their son, Oct. 16, 1860; 30, 6, 15. Y. 

Theodore, their son, Aug. 22, 1867 ; 45, 3, 8. Y. 

Margaret, wife of G. S. Shannon, Feb. 2, 1845 ; 63, 0, 3. Y. 



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ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 419 

Mary L., wife of A. R. Shannon, Feb. 11, 1849 ; 32(i year. Y. 

John P. Shaw, Dec. 11, 1880 ; 43, 2, 4. S. S. 

Margaret, his wife, Dec. 15, 1884 ; 44, 4, 7. S. S. 
Bertie N. and J. Wesley, their sons. 

James Sheffield, Dec. 14, 1859 ; 64, 10, 14. C. 

Lucy M., his wife, July 12, 1871 ; 74, 4, 12. C. 

James W. Sheffield, Dec. 31, 1821— Dec. 7, 1882. C. 

Melissa A., his wife, Dec. 7, 1826— Oct. 27, 1889. C. 

Lucy D., their daughter, April 7, 1861— Oct. 18, 1866. C. 

N. kendrick Sheffield, March 21, 1823— July 10, 1892. C. 

Kennie Sheffield, Oct. 1, 1887 ; 20, 1, 10. C. 

Deacon Aaron Shepard, Aug. 25, 1840 ; 65 years. C. 
Polly, his wife, also wife of Asahel Dowd, Dec. 18, 1858 ; 80th year. C 
Harry Shepard, Oct. 28, 1867 ; 62, 0, 19. 
Clara Ann, his wife, Jan. 3, 1850 ; 21, 1, 11. 
Elder Heman Shepard, Dec. 28, 1847 ; 48, 6, 7. 

Nancy, his wife, Oct. 7, 1884 ; 77, 3, 18. A. 

Silas Shepard, Dec. 7, 1887 ; 74 years. A. 

Lovina, wife of Silas Shepard, May 13, 1824; 60, 4, 15. A. 

Albert M., son of O. and D. Sherman, Sept. 19, 1854 ; 1, 11, 9. E. 

Elmer, son of same, Oct. 26, 1863; 4, 6, 28. R- 

Alcena B., daughter of Orra and Charlotte Sherman, Dec. 5, 1852 ; 

1, 3, 7. K- 

Charles Sherman, Co. B, 27th Inf., April 20, 1839— June 19, 1884. R. 

Charles B. Sherman, Dec. 21, 1804— Feb. 9, 1883. R- 

Lncina, his wife, June 20, 1809— Feb. 19, 1858. R- 
John Sherman, a Revolutionary soldier, March 28, 1764— Nov. 28, 

1832. ^■ 

Chloe, his wife, Nov. 5, 1860 ; 91, 11, 14. R' 

Orrin Sherman, Feb. 4, 1830— Oct. 31, 1863. R' 

Wealthy, wife of Elias D. Sherman, May 28, 1846 ; 43, 9, 26. R. 

Wealthy Sherman, Sept. 6, 1854 ; 8, 4, 11. R' 

William Sherman, Feb. 27, 1862 : .39, 10, 20. E, 

William V. Sipperly, Oct. 4, 1886 ; 60, 4, 20. R' 

Almira, wife of Orrin Skut, Jan. 22, 1814— June 15, 1886. R. 

Jerome, their sou, July 26, 1862 ; 22, 5. R' 
Ellen A., daughter of Conrad C. Skut, March 1, 1859 ; 2, 6, 15. N. R, 
James, son of Jonathan and Hannah Skut, March, 1835 ; 6 months, 

2 days. ^ ^- ^ 

Benjamin Slater, Sept. 25, 1853 ; 78, 7, 11. B 

Elizabeth, his wife, April 8, 1852 ; 77, 7. B 

William N., son of J. aud E. Smart, Dec. 30, 1853 ; 3, 2. R 

Amanda, wife of Elkanah Smith, Jan. 8, 1861 ; 72 years. R 



420 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 

Ananaias Smith, March 15, 1793— March 21, 1872. C. 
Desire, his mother, Brookhaven, L. I., Aug. 20, 1770— Dec. 30, 1860. C. 

Frank M., son of T. E. and F. M. Smith, June 15, 1854 ; 3, 1, 6. C. 

Infant daughter of G. W. and H. Smith, June 12, 1855 ; 12 days. C. 

Ann, wife of George Smith, Nov. 30, 1863 : 36, 2, 6. L. 

George D., their son ; 3 months. L. 

Eobert G., their son, April 22, 1863 ; 3, 2, 3. L. 

Charles M., son of C. N. and I. Smith. W. 

Chauncey Smith, May 4, 1785— Aug. 8, 1853. C. 

Priscilla, his wife, March 31, 1791— Dec. 20, 1877. C. 

Matilda, their daughter, March 25, 1830— April 19, 1832. C. 

Adaliza, their daughter, April 2, 1824— April 27, 1832. C. 

Elijah Smith, April 27, 1892 ; 67 years. R. 

James E. Smith, Nov. 20, 1856— Oct. 14, 1890. R. 

Linwood J., his son, March 30, 1890— Aug. 31, 1891. E. 

Lana, daughter of O. A. and P. A. Smith, April 12, 1880 ; 1, 6. W. 

Lucy v., wife of Julius C. Smith, Feb. 8, 1876 ; 38 years. E. 

Mary, wife of Jeremiah Smith, March 18, 1873 ; 45, 0, 12. E. 

Mary Jane, wife of Carlton E. Smith, June 2, 1871 ; 33, 6, 7. A. 

Minoris Smith, April 15, 1863 ; 70, 8, 17. W. 

Margaret, his wife, Feb. 15, 1878 ; 82, 2, 2. W. 

Morgan H. Smith, July 15, 1865 ; 38, 2. W. 

Eliza J., their daughter, Aug. 24, 1841 ; 21, 10, 6. W. 

Moses H. Smith, June 10, 1858 ; 72, 10, 26. A. 

Lovina L., his wife, Dec. 14, 1843 ; 56, 0, 2. " A. 

Solomon Smith, Jan. 1, 1869 ; 74, 6. Hu. 

Sarah E., his wife, Aug. 15, 1889 ; 89, 10, 7. Hu. 

Solomon S. Smith, Oct. 14, 1834 ; 73d year. W. 

Mary, his wife, Aug. 12, 1843 ; 59th year. W. 

Thomas Smith, Aug. 10, 1879 ; 86 years. L. 

Elizabeth, his wife, Jan 29, 1882 ; 75 years. L. 

Alonzo Snow, Feb. 14, 1815— July 31, 1885. E. 

Charles E., son of E. M. and S. Soper, Dec. 14, 1854 ; 1, 11, 20. C. 

M. Eose, wife of Ira T. Soule, April 3, 1891 ; 36, 3, 7. E. 

Hannah, daughter of Tunis and Mariah Sours, June 8 ; 75, 6, 8. Hu. 

Joseph Southwick, Sept., 1848 ; 56 years. H. 

Frederick L. Spencer, April 25, 1853 ; 32, 8, 3. H. 

Pelegg Spencer, Dec. 12, 1830 ; 66 years. H. 

James P. Springer, Dec. 23, 1828 ; 8, 9, 18. C. 

Mary B., wife of Edward H. Stark ey, Oct. 22, 1871 ; 48, 9, 3. E. 

Alice, wife of Andrew Stickles, Oct. 3, 1883 ; 35, 1, 23. E. 

Joseph Stickles, Co. K, 1st Cav., April 10, 1886 ; 68, 6. E. 

Pearsie, son of J. L. and J. A. Stickles, Aug. 21, 1886 ; 5 months. E. 



ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 421 

Mary, wife of Henry Steitler, March 11, 1863 ; 33, 4, 2(5. F. 

Philip, their son, July 17, 1858 ; 5, 4, 23. F. 

Jacob L., their son, July 12, 1858 ; 1, 1, 5. F. 

Martha B., wife of George Stevenson, April 20, 1877 ; 28 years. A. 

James Stewart, April 8, 1862 ; 70 years. C. 
Ann Eliza, daughter of James and Fanny Stewart, Jan. 24, 1842; 

24 years. C. 

Sally, wife of G. D. Stewart, June 6, 1849 ; 40 years. C. 

Lawton J., their son, July 0, 1861 ; 24 years. C. 
AureliaG., daughter of G. D. and S. C. Stewart, May 21, 1863; 

8 years. C. 

Lillian E., daughter of same, April S, 1879 ; 10 years. C. 

Carrie V., wife of William H. Stiegelmaier, Nov. 2, 1868 ; 29, 2, 22, H. 

Eena, their daughter, Oct. 11, 1868 ; 8 months, 12 days. H. 

Betsey E., wife of Joseph Stone, Nov. 27, 1856 ; 63, 1, IS. W. 

Elvira Lovejoy, wife of W. J. Stone, March 5, 1870 ; 44, 5. L. 

Hiram W. Stone, May 26, 1867 ; 24, 6. C. 
Lucy J., daughter of Joseph D. and Charity E. Stone, July 11. 1849; 

3, 8, 27. W. 

Ansel Strong, Sept. 26, 1788— Aug. 24, 1866. W. 

Betsey, his wife, March 13, 1802— Nov. 19, ISSl. W. 

A.'ia Strong, Dec. 18, 1829— Sept. 15, 1847. W. 

Fready B. Strong, Sept. 24, 1864— Jan. 4, 1866. W. 

Wallace, son of Henry and Emeliue Stuck, Oct. 30, 1860 ; 8, 4, 27. A. 

Infant son of same, March 8, 1862 ; 10 months, 20 days. A. 

William H. Sutherland, June 2, 1867 ; 64, 1, 12. S. S. 

Maria, his wife, Oct. 17, 1872 ; 65, 4, 17. S. S. 

Eliza J., their daughter, Feb. 17, 1868 ; 37, 10, 4. S. S. 

Michael Sweet, Co. E, 8Ist Inf., Nov. 27, 1SS9 ; 65 years. R. 

George Swift, Co. B, 100th Inf., Feb. 13, 1864 ; 24 years. E. 
Palmedia, wife of N. Sylvester and daughter of Eli and Jennette 

Murdcck, March 25, 1839 ; 41 years. H. 

Thomas Taber, July 7, 1849 ; 61, 5, 26. F. 

Dotha, his daughter, Oct. 8, 1850 ; 14, 5, 8. F. 

John T. Talton, May 30, 1882 ; 54 years. R. 

Henrietta, daughter of B. and Maria Taylor, Dec. 5, 1846 ; 1, 0, 22. R. 

Zadoc P. Taylor, Aug. 30, 1806— July 23, 1881. R. 

Alfred D., .son of W. and Emily Thayer, July 29, 1861 ; 19, 1, 9. R. 

Charles Thomas, Aug. 28, 1830 ; 53, 6, 2. R. 

Polly, his wife, June 14, 1863 ; 77, 4, 24. R. 

Eron N. Thomas, May 9, 1809— Aug. 20, 1874. R. 

Lucy A., his wife, Feb. 26, 1818- Nov. 26, 1843. R. 
Julia, their daughter, April 12, 1840— April 12, 1840. 



422 EOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 

George B., their son, March 7, 1843 — March 17, 1843. 

Rachel M., wife of Eron N. Thomas, Jan.,5, 1812— April 10, 1891. R. 

Charles Roscoe, their son, Jan. 27, 1845 — Jan. 23, 1847. R. 

Nathan W. Thomas, April 29, 1838 ; 36th year. R. 

Marie Antoinette, his daughter, Nov. 7. 1847 ; 14, 5, 21. R. 
Edward J. Thompson, June 16, 1822, Red Hook, N. Y., Nov. 22, 

1851. B. 

Samuel Thompson, Oct. 3, 1852 ; 58, 3, 11. C. 

Abigail, his wife, March 18, 1851 ; 52, 1, 3. C. 

Elmira Tice, April 15, 1876 ; 76, 3, 15. C. 

Delia, wife of Philip P. Tindall, Nov. 4, 1861 ;523, 7, 19. H. 

Emeline, wife of Myron P. Tindall, June 6, 1829— Sept. 3, 1857. Y. 

Jacob Tipple, April 1, 1853 ; 66, 2, 15. C. 

Margaret, his wife, July 7, 1888 ; 100. 11, 7. C. 

Lucy, wife of E. Toles, 1st, Sept. 11, 1858 ; 83 years. N. R. 

Ebenezer Toles, Nov. 30, 1883 ; 78, 0, 18. L. 

Polly, his wife, May 31, 1838; 36 years. N. R. 

Hannah, also his wife, Sept. 29, 1879 ; 74, 10, 6. L. 

Ezra Toles, Jan. 29, 1888 ; 46 years. L. 

Mary, wife of Benjamin Tougat, Sept. 20, 1865 ; 25 years. L. 

Asa Town, May 25, 1848 ; 66, 1. C. 

William W., his son, March 6, 1833 ; 5, 8, 27. C. 

Lucy A., his daughter, Feb. 2, 1832 ; 2, 11, 10. C. 

Eugene Town, Aug. 20, 1841— Jan. 28, 1881. C. 

Lewis S. Town, May 29, 1853 ; 24, 0, 17. C. 

J. Milton Town, March 4, 1882 ; 59, 10, 16. E. 

Silas Town, Sept. 17, 1873 ; 87, 7, 27. C. 

Mary E., his wife, Jan. 19, 1882 ; 80 years. C. 

John F. Towns, Oct. 10, 1838 ; 32, 2, 24. P. 

George Adelbert, son of John A. and Sarah A. Towns, Jan. 19, 

1870; 20, 1, 9. F. 

Benjamin Tucker, M. D., Aug. 28, 1833 ; 66 years. H. 

Eve, his wife, Feb. 22, 1834 ; 55 years. H. 

Daniel Tucker, Jan. 1, 1796— Oct. 12, 1876. Hu. 

Ellen, wife of A. W. Tucker, June 11, 1844 ; 44, 6, 9. B. 

William W., their son, Oct. 1, 1841 ; 1 year. B. 

Emma, daughter of A. W. and L. Tucker, Feb. 18, 1874 ; 1, 0, 28. A. 

Philip Turner, April 3, 1870 ; 35 years. E. 

Ella L., his wife, Feb. 12, 1848— Jan. 17, 1873. E. 

Pliny H., son of A. W. andS. A. Tucker, June 13, 1853 ; 2, 4, 10. B. 

William H., son of same, March 13, 1850 ; 10 months, 5 days. B. 
Roderick C, son of S. B. and S. H. Tucker, Jan. 2, 1849— Nov. 

18, 1849. H. 



ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 423 

Benje Ann, daughter of same, April 29, 1845 ; 1, 7. H. 

George Twamley, July 30, 1862 ; 80 years. S. S. 
Mary, his wife, Aug. 18, 1854 ; 63cl year. Both from County 

Wicklow, Ireland. S. S. 

Peter Valentine, M. D., April 1, 1857 ; 63, 11, 8. E. 

Eac.hel, his wife. May 7, 1858 ; 62, 7, 2. B. 

Eichard S. Valentine, M. D., May 5, 1856; 30, 8, 1. E. 

Ann M., his wife, July 13, 1858 ; 33, 8, 8. E. 
Washington, son of Asahel and Anna Valentine, Jan. 26, 1833 ; 

2, 3, 13. E. 
Emily, wife of Herman Van Amburgh, Sept. 16, 1815 — March 15, 

1886. F. 
George H., son of Xathaniel and Sarah Van Amburgh, Aug. 26, 

1842; 1, 7, 20. F. 

Fanny E., daughter of same, April 28, 1834 ; 1, 5, 5. F, 

German Van Amburgh, April 22, 1878 ; 78, 8. E. 

James Van Amburgh, Dec. 29, 1862 ; 90, 11, 13. F. 

Sarah, his wife, Xov. 16, 1864 ; 87, 7, 20. F. 

John L. Van Amburgh, April 28, 1864 ; 44, 2, 8. F. 

Jacob, his son, April 28, 1864 ; 16, 9, 15. F. 

Henry Van Amburgh, Dec. 22, 1872 ; 67, 3. F. 
Sarah M., daughter of J. and S. J. Van Amburgh, Jan. 25, 1858 ; 

2, 5, 7. F. 

Daniel Van Antwerp, Oct. 29, 1844 ; 43, 0, 15. C. 

Isaac Van Antwerp, Dec. 1, 1843 ; 36, 5, 5. C. 

John Van Antwerp, Co. G, 9th H. A., April 17, 1865 ; 27, 7, 11. H. 

Emeline, his wife, July 31, 1864 ; 21, 2, 20. H. 

Little son of Edwin and tovina Van Antwerp, Feb. 4, 1870 ; 3, 5, 6. E. 

Simeon J. Van Antwerp, Nov. 12, 1863 ; 67 years. E. 

Elizabeth, his wife, Sept. 6, 1857 ; 57, 6, 3. E. 

Lewis H., their son. May 21, 1866 ; 22, 11, 18. E. 
Charles, son of M. J. and H. C. Van Buren, May 3, 1834 ; 1 month, 

8 days. C. 
Lovina, wife of William S. Vanderburgh, June 16, 1817 — Dec. 5, 

1883. E. 
EmmaE., daughter of William H. and H. E. Vandercook, Feb. 7, 

1863 ; 8, 7. F. 

John Willis Vandercook, June 8, 1887 ; 30 years. E. 

Lucy M., wife of E. H. Vandercook, Aug. 26, 1842 ; 25 years. F. 

Michael C. Vandercook, Jan. 16, 1862 ; 81, 11. F. 

Mary, his wife, Dec. 18, 1858 ; 73, 6, 26. P. 

Cornelius, their son, June 23, 1831 ; 19, 6, 1. F. 

John W. Vanderoef, March 6, 1861 ; 39, 11. C. 



424 EOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 

Andrew VanLeuvea, Feb. 20, 1836 ; 67th year. F. 

Phoebe A., his wife, Jan. 25, 1845 ; 38th year. F. 

William Z., their son, Aug. 26, 1845 ; 7 months, 9 days. F. 

Sally Van Leuven, May 26, 1864 ; 66, 0, 14. F. 
Charles H., son of Henry and Sarah Van Ostrand, Aug. 4, 1850 ; 

2 months, 2 days. E. 

Abraham Van Valkenburg, Aug. 22, 1863 ; 62, 10, 13. , S. S. 

Deborah, his wife, Sept. 19, 1876 ; 68, 9, 20. S. S. 

Adelaide, their daughter, March 17, 1881 ; 32, 3, 9. S. S. 

Lydia, their daughter, Sept. 27, 1837 ; 2, 2, 28. S. S. 

Lovina Veley, July 6, 1801— Nov. 22, 1877. C. 

Edwin Vincent, May 28, 1830 ; 32d year. W. 

Eleanor Vincent, Nov. 11, 1831 ; 27th year. W. 

Jonathan Vincent, March 18, 1852 ; 86th year. W. 

Elizabeth, his wife, Oct. 3, 1839 ; 69th year. .W. 
Oscar, son of Joshua and Lorena Vincent, April 16, 1842 ; 3, 1, 2. W. 

Ovid Vincent, May 16, 1836 ; 24th year. W. 
Hannah, daughter of John and Christiana Vosburgh, Jan. 7, 1849 ; 

1, 10, 6. A. 

Catharine, daughter of same, July 2, 1845 ; 14, 8, 2. A. 

Dudley Wade, Feb. 26, 1876 ; 70 years. C. 

Mary E., his daughter, Feb. 19, 1842 ; 4, 11. C. 

Frank D., his son, Nov. 8, 1875 ; 20, 4, 8. C. 

John Wade ; no date. C. Eunice Wade ; no date. C. 

Willis G. Wade, June 7, 1854 ; 33, 5, 7. R. 

Juliette, his wife, March 26, 1859 ; 30, 2, 28. R. 

Willie Edward, their son, Nov. 7, 1853 ; 3 months, 20 days. R. 

David Wager, Feb. 19, 1879 ; 82 years. Y. 

Clarissa, his wife, April 23, 1865 ; 56 years. Y. 

Eliza J. Wager, Dec. 18, 1887 ; 54 years. Y. 

Freelove, wife of George Wager, March 25, 1850 ; 27 years. Y. 

James Wager, Jan. 26, 1855 ; 20, 3, 27. Y. 

John Wager, Aug. 25, 1856 ; 90 years. Y. 

Margaret, his wife, April 3, 1858 ; 87 years. Y. 
Mary, daughter of George and F. Wager, Jan. 16, 1846 ; 10 months, 

5 days. Y. 

Rosie, wife of William P. Wager, Aug. 25, 1891 ; 27 years. R. 

Stephen Wager, Co. D, 90th Inf., Dec. 31, 1869 ; 26 years. Y. 

William Wager, Co. D, 9th H. A., May 5, 1879 ; 40 years. Y. 

Henry Wagner, July 13, 1867 ; 74, 9. F. 

Mary, his wife, Oct. 5, 1850 ; 60 years. F. 

Abbie, wife of Stephen M. Waite, Feb. 3, 1830— Nov. 28, 1891. R. 



EOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 425 

In Memory of Mr. Jonathan Walker, who died Oct. 19, 1S1.3, in the 
34th year of his age. 

His days are spent, his glass is run, 
Oh see, how soon his work was done. 
His body in the tomb doth lie. 
We hope his soul's with Christ on high. 
This, the oldest inscription in Rose, is upon the only stone left in the 
Stewart's burial ground, without doubt the very first in the town. 

Elizabeth, wife of Emanuel Walmsley, Jan. 1, 1813— Jan. 6, 1873. R. 

George, their son, Aug. 12, 1851— April 29, 1873. R. 

Isaac Warren, April 10, 1821— Feb. 12, 1883. S. S. 

Sarah, his daughter, May 31, 1845— Feb. 1, 1862. S. S. 

Sarah Warren, Feb. 6, 1875 ; 82, 1, 18. S. S. 

James W. Warren, May 3, 1853— Sept. 8, 1878. S. S. 

Betsey Ann, wife of Harley Way, March 18, 1871 ; 63, 9, IS. N. R. 
Jane, daughter of Samuel and Aveline Way, June 19, 1842 ; 17th 

year. F. 

Lizzie, their daughter, July 15, 1861 ; 1, 7, 15. P. 

Addison Weeks, March 28, 1881—71, 3, 25. E. 

Eliza G., his wife, June 22, 1884 ; 73, 6, 2. R. 
Frances Augusta, daughter of M. D. and S. Weeks, Aug. 16, 1851 ; 

1, 0, 2. R. 

Francis W. Weeks. Nov. 1, 1861 ; 73, 2, 15. Y. 

Hannah, his wife, Feb. 16, 1870 ; 76, 5, 4. Y. 

Freddie, .son of John and Helen Weeks, Dec. 26, 1876 ; 6, 6, 8. R. 

Georgie, son of same, Dec. 31, 1876 ; 2, 1, 4. R. 

Margaret, wife of William Weeks, June 8, 1886 ; 73 years. S. S. 

Marsal P., son of David and Mary West, May 3, 1848 ; 3, 11, 17. R. 

Mary E., wife of N. Weeks, Feb. 12, 1869 ; 33, 1, 11. F. 

Mo.ses Weeks, Jan. 21, 1853 ; 26, 5, 14. R. 

Eli Wheeler, Jan. 12, 1770, N. Fairfield, Conn., Aug. 10, 1847. H. 

Grizel, his wife, Jan. 17, 1776, N. Fairfield, Conn., March 28, 1868. H. 

Cynthia, their third daughter, July 12, 1826 ; 24th year. H. 

Laura Jane, their fourth daughter, Jan. 12, 1828 ; 15th year. H. 

Phineas Whittier, June 1, 1833; 22 years. Y. 

Barbary, wife of John Wikel, Aug. 1, 1846 ; 56 years. F. 

Selah B. Wilder, June 16, 1803— July 26, 1829. W. 

Tamer, wife of Erastus Wilder, July 14, 1828 ; 50, 6, 24. W. 

Andrew Wilkins, Dec. 7, 1815— Sept. 4, 1884. R. 

Alfred, son of Charles and Joanna Willard, July 1, 1853 ; 5, 3, 11. B. 
Aaron F., son of N. and P. A. Williams, July 16, 1853 ; 10 months, 

25 days. A. 
Katy Ann., daughter of Thomas and Sarah Williams, April 27, 

1871; 1, 4, 22. W. 



426 EOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 

Matthew Willis, May 1, 1853 ; 79 years. W. 

Sarah H., his wife, Oct. 13, 1854; 82 years. W. 
Birdie 'Bell, only daughter of M. L. and C. B. Wilson, May 17, 1868; 

8, 2, 4. E. 

Fortescue Wilson, Co. C, 105th Inf., 1864 ; 48 years. C. 

Henry, son of A. J. and M. Wilson, March 19, 1874 ; 30 years. W. 

Jonathan Wilson, Aug. 25, 18.30 ; 48, 10, 17. C. 

Damaris, his wife. May 14, 1848 ; 66, 4, 23. C. 

Eobert Wilson, July 31, 1868 ; 62, 6, 6. R. 

Zephaniah, his son, Aug. 16, 1841 ; 3 days. R. 

Walter D. Wilson, Nov. 10, 1860 ; 25, 0, IS. C. 
Hattie, daughter of C. R. and C. E. Winchell, June 11, 1875 ; 3, 9, 19. R. 

Lana, daughter of J. and G. Winchell, May 18, 1828 ; 2, 5, 3. F. 

Russell Winchell, Sept. 8, 1859 ; 47, 0, 5. F. 

James T. Wisner, Nov. 30, 1877 ; 72, 8. Hu. 

Abner Wood, Sept. 10, 1852 ; 66th year. Hu. 

Tunis Woodruff, Nov. 12, 1864 ; 60, 8, 7. S. S. 

Harvey L. Worden, March 7, 1856 ; 20, 5, 12. F. 

Johnny, son of J. V. and C. Worden, May 26, 1876 ; 3, 9, 26. F. 

Frances, wife of James Wraight, March 10, 1877 ; 67, 6, 4. S. S. 

Daniel Wright, March 3, 1854, 72 years. C. 

Mary H., his wife, April 10, 1872 ; 81, 9, 7. C. 

Jacob W. Wright, April 13, 1863; 69, 11, 8. C. 

Mary E., wife of Charles H. Wright, April 4, 1876 ; 30, 9, 15. F. 

Mary Bell, their daughter. Jan. 10, 1860 ; 3, 6, 12. F. 

Charles B., their son, April 1, 1886 ; 16, 3, 27. F. 

Amos S. Wykoff, Dec. 27, 1868 ; 64, 5, 4. R. 
Charlie, son of Lyman and Lucy Wykoff, Sept. 23, 1872 ; 11 months, 

13 days. .R. 

O. L. Wykoff, May 10, 1866 ; 28, 7, 12. C. 

Catharine, wife of Conrad Young, July 22, 1854 ; 75, 3. F. 

Mary, daughter of Conrad and C. Young, May 23, 1872 ; 13, 0, 14. F. 

Robert R. Young, Aug. 15, 1860 ; 30th year. W. 

Mary E., his daughter, Aug. 23, 1859 ; 2, 0, 3. W. 

Charles D. Zeluff, July 4, 1859 ; 28, 1, 25. H. 



INDEX. 



This index was started with the intentiou of entering every proper name 
given in the text, with every page indicated, but it was soon found 
that this would necessitate almost the reproduction of the entire matter. 
Accordingly, as a rule, the names of heads of families are given ; in most 
cases, the maiden names of wives, and generally, those of the men who 
have taken Eose life partners. Wherever names are already alpha- 
betically arranged, they are not repeated in the index. This applies to 
those in the Rose Temperance Society, the list of Rose soldiers and the 
chapter of epitaphs. Of Rose town officers, there are given in this index 
only the names through and including the list of collectors. 

Abbott, Clarissa, 261 Andrus, Amasa, 151; Andrew, 155; 

Ackerman, David and family, 206; Benham, 45, 155; Betsey, 206; Eli, 

Eugene, 72; Helen, 169; Henry, 153, 376; Elon, 44; James, 151; Joseph, 

169, 177; Margaret, 169 69, 173, 266; Lydia, 45; Sarah, 62; 

Ackley, Daniel, 206 Sophia, 134 

Adams, Arloa, 232; Emma, 114 Angle, William, 235 

Adams' Ditch, xvi, 96, 97, 156, 289 Annln, Joseph, xiv 

Adams Land Co., 21,61,234,321 Annin's Gore, xiv 

Albough, B., 213 Armitage, Ann, 45 

Aldrlch, Amos and family, 130; Ben- Armstrong, Edgar, 7, 8,12; Granville, 

jamin, 130, 1.33, 142, 143 ; Edward, 307; James, 4, family, 12; Richard, 

54, 67; George, 96, 130; Joseph, 130, .52; William, 183 
149; Micajah, 54, 58 ; Peter, 53, 56, Atkinson, George, 53, 74; John, 53 
58, 68; Walter, 58 Aurand, George, 42; William, 47, 53 

Alexander, Daniel, 140; family, 287; Austin, Ezra and family, 294, 295; 

J- B., 377 Irving and family, 310; John, 233 

Allen, Aldula, 61, 97; Charles, 61, 73, Austerly, Catharine, 214 

76; Clayton, 55, 61 ; Ephraim, 251; Avery, Harriet, 45; Mary, 117; 

Ezra, 76; Harriet, 61, 73; Lampson, Phoebe, 118; Rhoda, 129; Richard, 

61,66,67,274,377; Nathaniel, 61; 108; Thomas, xv 

Noah, 61; Ovid, 255, 303; Solomon, Ayers, Sally, 212 

55, family, 61, 97, 309, 377; Willard, Babcock, Stephen and family, 95, 105 
76; William, 199, 303; Winthrop, 303 Bachman, Mary E., 72 

Allis, Eliza, 216 Baird, Abiah, 68; family, 72 

Alvord, William, Mary, George, 159 Baker, C, 28; Charles, 214; Emeline, 

Andrews, James, 113; Joseph, 235; 125; Francis, 121; George and 

Robert and family, 141, 311 family, 147; Horatio, 120, 170; John, 



428 



EOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 



139; Julius, 98, 147; Marcus and 
family, 101 

Baldwin, 59; Rev. C, 275; Janette, 86 
Ball, George H., 103, 131 

Ballard, Mary, 29 

Ballou, Ida M., 66 

Baltzel, Magdalena, 213 

Bamborough, Thomas, 102, 103 

Baptist Church, History of, 344 ; 

Preachers' Names, 349 

Barager, Delilah, 20 

Barber, Perry, 65; R. N., 97 

Barless, Arthur, 262, 273; C. J., 272, 

308; C. L., 272; R. C. and family, 272, 377 
Barnes, Abram, 235; Alvin, 199; fami- 
ly, 200; Betsey, 63 ; Edward, 139 ; 
Elijah, 199; Harvey, 139; Horatio, 
2, 140; James and family, 198, 199; 
John, 198, family, 199, 202; John 
H., 199, 201, 294, 377 ; Julia, 60; 
Laui'ie, 121; Margaret 199, 207; 
Mary, 140; R. R., 202; Rebecca, 197,207 
Barnum, Ara, 133; David and family, 
163 ; Eunice and brothers, 145 ; 
Katie, 226; Roger, 58, 67; family, 68 
Barrett, Gardner, 165, 233; Gideon, 
113,179; Helen, 147; Jerry, 164, 165; 
John, 165, 179; Lewis, 164, 165, 177, 
256; Mary, 42; Simeon, 29, 156, 164, 
200; William, 
Barrick, Charles, 144 ; John 

Ralph, 
Barton, Elisha, 215; Dr. F. S., 
Bassett, John, 277, 293; Sophia, 
Batt, Isaac, Collins, 
Beach, Nettie, 
Beaden, S., 
Beadle, Guy, 
Beeket, John, 
Bell, Jacob, 
Bemis, Harris, 
Bender, John and family, 
Benham, Deborah, 
Benjamin, Alanson, 44; David, 42, 43 
George, 44; Grant, 36; Henry, 74 
James, 8, 36, 37, 42; Manly, 42, 43 
Nelson, 44; Riley and family, 43 
WilUam, 42, 43, 
Bennett, Merritt, 37; Jeremiah, 
Bigelow, Lydia, 

Bishop, Calvin, xiii, 117; C. E., 117; 
Cephas, 98, 117, 149; Chauncey, 116; 



37 



99; 



145 
294 
78, 83 
291 
147 
304 
133 
264 

72 
311 
120 

70 



189 

174 

93 



family, 117; Joel, 26, 108, family, 
118; Joel, 2d, 118; Joseph, 171 

Blackman, E. Wallace, 21 

Blaine, Abiah and family, 68; Sarah, 

78; William and family, ' 68, 73 

Blake, Prank, 255 

Blanchard, Harriet, 142 

Blodgett, Luke W., 71, 88 

Bless, Mrs. B. G., 46 

Blynn, John, 174; Ovid, 173; Mar- 
tin, 22, 175 
Bockoven, Samuel, 210 
Boon, Edward, 74 
Borden, Selden, 182 
Bottum, Lois J., 95 
Bovee, Elizabeth, 132; George, 170; 

Herman, 170, 171; Stephen, 170 

Bowers, James, 262 

Bowie, Sarah, 101 

Bowles, Rev. George, 339 

Bowman, Charles, 133 

Boyce, Charles, 176; Charlotte, 193; 
Emory, 193; Isaac, 175, 176; John, 
176; Robert, 193; Stephen, 176 

Boynton, Cynthia, 135; Joseph, 101, 

144; Minerva, 145; Philo and family, 144 
Bradburn, Andrew, 12, 169; Charles, 
168; Dwight, 277; E. A., 91; Ed- 
ward, 169; Thomas, 169 
Bradshaw, Electa, 163; Dr. J. E., 284 
Brainard, Seth, 243 
Braman, Catharine, 174 
Branch, Ella, 107 
Brant, John, 125; Myron, 133, 305, 306 
Brass Band, History and names, 369 
Brayton, BjTon, 95 
Brewster, 6; Decatur, 6, 291; Eugene, 
126; Hannah, 129; Isaac, 169, 206; 
Joseph, 31; Rebecca, 29; Samuel, 6 
Briggs, Birney, 125; Elbert, 106, 117; 
Jonathan, 100, 124, family, 125; 
John, 10, 83, 100, 118, 124, 125; 
Samuel, 42, 47; William and family, 10 
Brink, David, 72; Jane, 169 
Brisbin, George, 44, 143; James, 44, 

117, 143; Mary, 117 

Brockway, Cyrus, 79, 104; Elisha, 69, 79 
Brewer, David, 166 

Brown, Betsey, 165; Dorothy, 93; 
George, 114; Gilbert, 229, 232; John 
and family, 240; Mary, 57, 95; Re- 
becca, 70; Sarah, 204; William, 98 



ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 429' 

Browning, William, 265 Catchpole, Benjamin, 138; Edwin W., 

Brunney, James, 99 114, 116; George, iii, 11, 115, 116, 126, 

Brush, Ann, 44 139; James, 115, 138, family, 139; 

Bryar, William A., 299 Robert, 115, 126, 138, family, 139 

Buchanan, Charles, 87, family, 88; Caton, Eliza, 87 

Joseph and family, 88 Cavanaugh, Mary, 41 

Buck, Alvin, Wallace, 87 Cay wood, 44, 45; Abrani, 47; Gerrett, 

Buckley, John and family, 48, 49 45; John, 47, 277 

Bucklin, Rev. John, 118 Census Gleanings, 373 

Bull, Anna, 61 Center, Dorr, 61, 73; Eliza, Hallet, 

Bullard, Lucy, 185 John, Mary, 73; Nathaniel, 53, 73 

Bump, Emma, 26; Sally, iii Chaddock, Alonzo and family, 67, 78, 

Bundy, Elijah, Joel, Stephen, True- 99; Elisha, 79; Jared, 98, 177, 259, 

man, 119 377; Jefferson, 142; Judson, 98, 308; 

Bunyea, Sarah, 240 Watson, 93; .Wesley, 93; William, 

Burch, JEdna, 29; Catharine, 163; 67, 93, 96, 98, 256; Winfield, 57,84,85,93 

Sally, 279 Chalker, Emma, 107 

Burgess, 42; Daniel, 24,27 Chamberlin, Hamhn, 39; Philetus, 36, 

Burke, Edward, 27; Ella, 27; James, 42; family, 60; William, 230 

27; John, 27; Patrick, 26, 27, 32; Chambers, Samuel, 223 

William, 27 Champion, Mary, 62 

Burkle, Mary, 102 Chapin, Deiademie, 41; Gilbert, 135; 

Bm-lingame, Dorcas, 150 Jeremiah, 60; Stephen and family, 36 

Burnham, 266 Chapman, 77 

Burns, Emily, 226; John, xv, family, Chappel, Lina, 21 

118; Wesley, 185 Chase, Eliza, 56; Levi, 107; Mary A., 

Burrill, Edward, 46, 126; E.O., 126 10;Mattie, 57 

Burt, Ira, 126; James, 55; John, 182; Chatterson, Abram, 4; family, 17; 

Mary, 231 Betts, 17; George, 18; Henrj^ 17; 

Bush, Edward, 5; Fletcher, 5, 81; family, 18; John P., 129, family, 

Lavello, 5, 81; Leverrier, 5, 6, 81; 155; Laney, 17 

Oliver, 5, 78, 81 Chidester, John, 183; Rebecca, 179; 

Butler, Esther, 78; Mary, 117; Rich- William, 256 

ard, ix Childs, G. C, 244; Joseph, 266 

Buttonwood Tavern, viii Chipman, George, 75 

Cady, Charlotte, 216 Church, Hiram, viii, xiv; Osgood, 

Calender, Ruth, 83 viii, sii, 69 

Calkins, 67; James, 235; Mortimer, Clapp, Jessie, 207 

24; William, 29 Clapper, George, 174; Harvey, 170; 

Calm, George, 40 Henry, 149; H. W., 84, 95; Jacob 

Camp, Polly, 227 and family, 190; James, 377; John 

Campbell, Isaac and family, 264 ; and family, 198 

James, 245 Clark, 145; Addie, 51; Alvin, 51; 

Carpenter, Orrin, 185, 377 Darius, 22; Emmons, 22; Garrett, 

Carr, Lyman, Moses, 102,103,107 145; Lorinda, 3; Lysander, 214; 

Carrier, Amaziah, 95; Elbert, 96; "Priest," 22,51 

Elizabeth, 1; Ella J., 96; Lillie, 96; Clary, Albert, 226; Caroline, 178; 

Seward, 95 Samuel, 183 

Case, Alonzo, 189, 190; Harmon, 179; Claus, Mary, 242 

Rose C, 147 Cleary, Maurice and family, 41 

Casler, 289 Cleveland, James, 300; Jason, 44; 

Caster, Mary Ann, 45 Mary, 262; Nelson, 300 



430 



KOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 



Closs, David, 377; Frank, 70, 298, 312, 
377, family, 314; Hamel, 111, 121; 
Harvey, 111, 113, 271, 274, 377; John 
and family, 111; John J., 53, 61; 
Will and family, 113 

Clum, Kingsley, 235 

Coats, William, 310 

Cobb, Emeline, 31 

Coffee, James and family, 301, 303 

Colborn, Edwin, 262; James, 149, 
family, 200; James W., 200, family, 
262; Jonathan, 200, family, 213; 
William, 200, 302 

Cole, Angeline, 256 ; Charles, 94 ; 
Isaac, 83, 94, 95; Lucy, 32; Romain, 
133; Nancy, 184; William H., 83, 
93, 94, 123; W. M., 256 

Coleman, 75; Nelson, 210 

Collier, Albert, 260; Anna, 165 
George, 275, 306; John and family 
291, 292; M. T., 257, 260 

Collins, Alpheus, 106, 269, family 
269, 270; C. B., 258, 274, 377; C. C. 
5, 16, 26, 85, 98, 99; Flavia, 106 
Foster, 60, 153, family, 154; Har 
riet, 17, 154; Ida, 16; James, 17 
Josephus, 12, 15, 16, 33, 40, 47; Julian 
26; Newton, 17; Sally, 162; Ste- 
phen, 65, 69, 151, family, 153, 331 
Thaddeus, Ist, xv, 16, 106, family 
274, 331; Thaddeus 2d, 5, 12, 15 
family, 16, 34, 41, 106, 272, 377 
Thaddeus W., 153 

Colvin, Asahel, 7, 30; Nathan, 30 
Oliver and family, 30 ; Pitt, 30 
Sidney, 30 

Commett, Florence, 143 

Comstook, Mary, 36; Susan, 138 

Conklin, 304; Morris, 290 

Conroe, Jacob, John, 306 

Converse, Charles, 239; Eugene and 
family, 195, 196 ; Horace, 238 ; 
family, 239 

Cook, Elias, 115; Jane, 81 

Cooley, Sloan, 22 

Cooper, Betsey, 203 

Copeman, Ambrose, 99, 147 

Cornell, Calista, 76; Catharine, 103 

Correll, Nettie, 159; Nicholas, 149 

Cornwall, John, 180, 377 

Coutermarch, Henry, 132 

Covell, Abram, 161, 164, 290; Charles, 



48, 161, 376; Helen, 158, 161; Irving, 
161; James, 1st, and family, 157; 
James, 2d, 113, 161; Seymour, 160; 
family, 161 

Covey, John, 101 

Cowan, Martha, 158; Mary, 199 

Cox, 45; George, Mordecai, 266; Sally, 

52; Samuel^ 170 

Craft, Abram, 161, family, 224; Ben- 
jamin and family, 214; Clarissa, 157, 
161; Thomas, 224 

Crampton, 42; Daniel, 58 

Crandall, Byron, 204, 263; Jane, 156; 

Joseph and family, 203 

Cranston, Nerissa, 61 

Crawford, Joseph, 74 

Creek, Lucy, 229 

Crisler, family, 276; Adam, 228; 
Charles and family, 158; Eliphalet, 
120; Evander, 33; Jerry, 279; John, 
12, family, 33, 260; John W., 293; 
Lawrence, 276; Marsden, 279; Mat- 
thew, 262, 277; Nelson, 33, 67; 
Willis, 277 

Cross, Julian, 125 

Crydenuise, Isaac and family, 101; 

Isaac, Jr., 101, 249; Polly, 108 

Cullen, James and family, 192; 

Thomas, 102, 245, 246; William, 256 

Cummings, Libbie, Mary, 48 

Curtis, Rev. Amasa, 121; Cynthia, 

202; Isaac, 36; William, 103 

Cushman, 5; Cornelia, 192; Salina, 193 
Cusic, Rev. H., 257 

Cuyler, Katie, 98 

Dagle, Addison, 132, 138; Albert, 131; 

Charles and family, 132; Frank, 132 
Daly, Byer, 169; Calvin, 235; Mary, 43 
Dann, Ezra, 294; Rufus, 295 

Darling, Chauncey, 12, 33; Martin, 76, 83 
Davenport, Harriet, 231; James, 61; 

Jerome, 133 

Da-\as, Daniel, 70; Edgar, 135; Ellery, 
38; Frank, 128; Irene, 135; Jerome, 
76; John, 91; Paul, 76 

Day, Lucy, 235; Sibyl, 159 

Deady, Ambrose, 253; Charles, 9, 36, 
family, 37; Elizabeth, 37; George 
L., 201, 208; James, 9, 37, family, 
201: John Q., 9, family, 37; 
Margaret, 9; Richard, 253; Wil- 
liam, 37, family, 256 



ROSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 431 

Dean, Edgar, 131, 132 loway, 87, 89; John, 72; Marcus, 60; 

Decker, Henry, 11, 37, 40, 44, 63; Warren, 41 

James, 64; John, 64, 133, 255; Peter, Dudley, L. H., 304, 307 

244, 257 Dunham, Andrew, 303; Ezra, 223; 

Delamatter, Mai'tha, 178 Rev. F. J., 258; James and family, 

DeLong, Francis, 93, 99; John, 93 302; Julia, 239; Morgan, 65 

Demlng, Rosanna, 92 Dunman, Sarah, 189 

Demure, Roxana, 146 Dunn, Adaline, 211; Bridget, 117; 

DePew, Abrani, 109 Catharine, 27; Henry, 159; Hiram, 

Derby, Deha, 105; Josephine, 133 147, 159; Margaret, 227 

Desmond, Agnes, Albert, Charles, 39; Durant, Joseph, 272 

Mary, 51; Truman, 39, 43; William, Durfee, Justin, 100; Miriam, 177 

39, 42, 43, 86, 177; family, 177 Dwyer, Annie, 48 

Devoe, 48; John, 48 Eastman, 58 

Dewey, Mary, 73 Eastwood, Foster, Nelson, 154 

DeWitt, Rev. M. H., 256 Eaton, 4, 12 

Dickinson, Christopher, 143; Darwin, Ebert, Louis, 104 

143, 144, 254; Harvey, 30; Jay, 128; Eddy, 90 

family, 132; Robert, 132, 144; Wil- Elder, 61 

liam, 128, 143, family, 144; William, Eldred, Clark, 142; Kate, 89, 142; 

132; family, 135 Lydia, 142 

Dickson, Ensign, 313; Dr. J., 7, 12, 20, Elmer, James, 224 

101, 104, 140, 217, 253, family, 284, EUinwood, Adele, 245; Alexander, 

376; John, 224; Sophronia, 224 135; Chester, 108, family, 244; 

Ditton, 131; Charles, 155 David, 245; E. Chester, 72, family, 

Dix, Amy, 61; John A., 61 74,244,377; Edson, 300, 301; Ellis, 

Dixon, Abel and family, 229,235; 103, 245, 331; Ensign and family, 247; 

George, 223, 229 George, 245; Harrison, 247, 307; 

Doan, NeUie, 261 Jonathan and family, 242; Lucius, 

Dodds, .libertine, 186; Chi-istiana, 11, 247, 257, 304, 307; Mary, 61; 

186; Eva, 63; Jeffers, iii, family, Orlando, 69, 300; Valorous, 63, 299; 

185; Polly, 186; William, 185, 193; Valorous, 2d, 9, family, 299, 377; 

William H., 186 Washington, 55, 61, 245, 280 

Donaldson, 67 Ellis, Albert, 238; George, 240: L. R., 240 

Donovan, John, Mam-ice, Timothy, 43 Ellsworth, John, 130; Leman, 235, 237 

Doolittle, David, . 90 Elwood, Betsey, 67 

Doremus, Abram, 133, 240, family, 241 Emorlck, Caroline, 72 

Dorris, Amos, 101, 104 Epitaphs, 394 

Dorsheimer, Lieut. Gov., 211 Esmond, Zechariah, 8 

Doty, Daniel, 58; Isaac, 66 Espenscheid, William, 203, 211 

Dougan, Arthur, 69; Mary, 173, 183, 377 Evans, Daniel, 76 

Douglas, Frank, 175 Evarts, Clementine, 106 

Dowd, Azel, 15; Benjamin, 90; Fairbanks, Cornelius, 105, 109, 122; 

George, 24; Watson, 15, 85 George C, 62, 107, 251: Zenas, 

Drainage, vii 60, 67, 106, 107, 122 

Draper, Doctor, 305 Fairchild, John, 9 

Drown, Huldah, 194; John, 1st, and Falkerson, Emma, 70 

family, 212; John, 2nd, and family, Farnsworth, Thomas, 237, 239 

193; John A., 194, 254; Maria, 93; Farr, William, 145 

Solomon, 212, family, 213 Farshee, Lany, 72 

Drury, Adahne, 89; Anson, 81; Caleb, Featherly, Betsey, 241: John, 241, 

87, 106; EHhu, 87; Frank, 127; Hoi- family] " 242 



432 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 

Feeck, Nicholas and family, 148 155; Samuel, 129, 377; Sarah, 118 

Fellows, Frank, 199; Joseph, xii, xvi, 140 Garlick, Abner, 44, 46, 128, 173; 
Felt, Cyrus, 107 Charles, 127, 133, 149; Eli, 101, 127, 

Felton, Zerviah, 146 128, 164, 176, 239; Frank, 128, 159; 

Ferguson, Abraham, 377; Clark, 105; Harriet, 127; Henry, 89, 127, 128, 131, 

Nelson, 10 141; Judson, 128, 279; Samuel, 99, 

Ferris, 87; Harriet, 144; Harvey, 12; family, 127, 128; Samuel, 178; Sid- 

family, 253; Henry, 41; J. H. family, 253 uey, 128, 236; WilUam, 174, 178, 289 

Fields, Dr., 60 Garling, Magdalena, 175 

Finch, David, 44; Elvin, Eva, 44; Em- Garratt, Esther, 37: Mary, 91: 

bury, 201; Frank, 41, 290: FrankUn, Richard, 29, 46, 82, 91, 123; Sarah, 91 

182, 208: George, 201: Jeremiah, 1st, Gatchell, Jeremiah, 289 

41, 44, 109; Jeremiah, 2nd, 44; John, Gaylord, Ellen, 313; Frank, 139: 

41, 44: John L., 225; Nancy, 223; Marvin, 313 

Newman and family, 224: Sarah, Genung, Benjamin and family, 299; 

208; Selah, 46, 290: William, 21, 44 Joseph, 258; Mary, 101; Susan, 146 

Fink, Christian, 167, 239: John, 101 Geology and Topography, vi 

Plnnigan, Annie, 46 Gilbert, Huldah, 127 

Fish, T. S., 28 Giles, Abigail, 61; Lucy, 61 

Fisher, Adam, 210: Adrian, 271: Gillett, Almira, 121, 129, 304: Asahel, 

George, 173, 186; Mary, 27: Michael, xv, 100, 102, 108, 141, 148, 377; Avery, 

91: William, 271 100, 101, 123: Charles, 101; Gardner, 

Flint, Augusta, 139; Calista, 115, 116; 119; Harvey, 104, 105: Henry, 84, 

Dwight, ix, 116, 139; Elizur, 115, 377: 101: Hosea, 157: Isaac, 121, family, 

Pomeroy, 115 129; John, 100, 148, 255; John C, 

Foist, Ruth, 202 101: Julia, 105; Mark, 101: Melvin, 

Foote, Christiana, 186 100: Nodadiah, xv, 145: Rhoda, 129, 

Forbes, 72; Thomas, 75 304: W. O., 308 

Forncrook, Mary, 261 Glen, Blias, 184: Harriet, 185: John, 

Fosmire, Jane, 185: John, 150 184: Samuel, 184; William, 184; 

Foster, Aaron, 101; Cornelius, 205: William J., 185,201,376,377 

Daniel, 205; David, 54; Esther, 274; Glover, Ida, 202 

Heman, 101; Howard, 255; Nancy, 54 Goetzman, Valentine, 211; family, 212 
Fowler, Hiram, 286; Maria, 91 Goeway, Lucy, 215 

Fox, Charles and family, 205; Louis Goffe, Ruth, 17 " 

and family, 204 Goodell, Minerva, 170 

Fredendall, Anna, 172: Barney, 304, Good Templars, 369 

305: Henry, 183, 305: James, 305 Goodwin, Sherman, 70 

Freeman, Charles, 20, 66: George, 66; Gordon, Hiram, 289; James, 103; 

Moses and family, 76 Lester, 289 

Free Methodist Church, History of, 359 Gould, 8, 36 

Free Methodist Preachers, 360 Gragor, David, 28» 

French, Cynthia, 72; James, 239: Graham, 10; Alfred, 89, 129; Archi- 

family, " 240 bald, 147; Eliza, 91; Elmore, 147; 

Fry, George, 96; Phihp and family, 103 Henry, 89, 123, 125, 129, 141, 146, 
Fugate, Henderson, 68 family, 147; Nelson, 92, 123, 133, 147; 

Fuller, Almanda, 8: Erastus, 8, 54: Walter, 100; William, 38, 46 

Jonathan, 48: Mary, 246; Ralph, 54, 246 Grand Army of the Republic, 371 

Fulton, EUzabeth, ' 226 Grange, 372 

Gage, Lillian, 153; S. W., 153, 256, 377 Grant, Fred, 131; Sylvia, 216 

Gardner, Ansel, 109, 119, 134, 136; Graves, 68; George, 60; Thomas, 102 

Ella, 138: Ishmael, 138, 237; Henry, Gray, A. M., and family, 142 



.ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 



433 



173 
44 
54 
97 



Green, David, 72; Elmer, 236; 
George, iii, family, 203; Isabel, 72; 
Sarah, 105; WilUam, 51, 131, 132, 235 
Grenell, Abel, 407 ; Eugene, 202 ; 
George, 220; Henry, 294, 407; Her- 
man and family, 202; Jane, 177 
Grenier, Marian, 202 
Griggs, Eleanor, 106 
Griswold, Charles, 294; Edgar, 209; 
Helen, 183; Lorenzo, 182, family, 
183; Nelson, 206, 208, family, 209; 
William, Ist, 207, family, 208; Wil- 
liam, 2d, and family, 208; William 
H., 183, 208, 294, 377 
Gunn, Sophia, 300 
Gunning, Thomas, 65 
Gurnee, J., 87 
Guthrie, Deacon, 99; Louise, 37, 99 
Hadenburg, Hannah, 
Hadley, Sophia, 
Hake, Isabella, 
Hall, Harriet, 73; Lena, 
Hallenbeck, Martin, 137; William, 90, 137 
Hallett, Dr. P. H., 273, 284; Horace, 

47; William, iii, 47; Kittie, 47 

Halliday, C, 131 

Hamel, Hannah, 111 

Hamelink, Derrick, 190, 257 

Hamilton, Hannah, 213; Ida, 
Hamm, William, 
Hand, Davis, 101, 108; N. B., 121; 

Samuel, 102, 103, 117 

Haney, Albert, 21; Anna, 21; William 

and family, 21 

Harmon, Alfred, 261: Alpheus, xv, 
52, 72,74, 77,80; Daniel, 170,261,288; 
John, 74, 261, 273; Peter, 10, 261; 
William, 261 

Harper, Albert, 166; Alexander, 280; 
Anna, 196; Charles, 123, 148, 280, 
289; Daniel, 33, 280; David, 149; D. 
W., 92; Gardner, 280, 289; Jackson, 
47; Minerva, 149 

Harrington, Mervin, 223 

Harris, Sally, 107 

Hart, Alice, 88; Clinton, 161; Hiram, 
159; Ira and family, 192; Lycurgus, 
88; Marion and family, 193; Martha, 
161; Marvin, 88; family, 252; S. C, 229 
Hastings, Tansey, 44 

Haugh, Carrie, 105; Frank, 47 

Havens, 90; Dexter, 114; William, 96, 
29 



69 
263, 305 



98, 113, family, 
Haviland, Burt, 176, 205, 309; Henry 

and family, 205, 206 ; Jane, 162 ; 

Mary, 
Healy, Andrew, 
Hebgen, Anthony, 
Heermans, H. C, 
Hemans, Joseph H., 
Henderson, Daniel, 70; Eustace, 66, 

69, 70, 72, 79 ; Eveline, 70, 112 ; 
Frank, 66, 70; George W., 70, 74; 
Gideon, 70, 71; John, 70; Thomas, 

70, 78, 82 ; Wooster and family, 
Hendrick, Adelia, 172 ; Mary, 
Hendricks, Barbara, 54 ; Betsey, 53 ; 

Frank, 6; Katy, 53; Simeon, 
Henry, Emma, Seymour, William, 
Hersey, Anna, 
Hetta, August, 102; John A., 
Hibbard, Elizabeth, 
Hickok, Eugene, 30, 44, 59, 307, 308 ; 

Isaac, 129 ; Moses, 146 ; Will, 257 ; 

William, 137, 300, 377; William F., 

9, 59, 
Hicks, Hannah, 78; Mary, 
Hield, Allie, 
Higgins, Perliette, 
Hill, David, 133; John, 127, 129, 377; 

William, 
Hillman, Emma, 
Hills, Sally S., 
Hills of Rose, 

Hills of Wayne, 319; 

Hills, John, 188; Peter and family, 
Hines, Clara, 
Hoag, 

Hoetzel, Saloma, 

Hoffman, Cassie, 101 ; S. B., 243, 

Holbrook, Jester, 311; family, 312; 

William, 
Holcomb, Elizabeth, 28; Francis, 26, 

28; Harrison, 26, 28; Hattie, 28; 

Mary, 12,26, 28; Silas, 46, 256; Wil- 

lard, 46; WiUiam H., 
Hollenbeck, Lottie, 
Holloway, John, 
Holmes, 1 ; David, 266 ; family, 307 ; 

Demarkus, 
Hopping, Sidney, 5; family, 81, 

Horn, Caroline, 162 ; Edward, 177, 
Hornbeck, Mary, 
Home, Dr. J. M., 275, 



114 



307 
308 
217 
xii 
65 



71 

171 

53 

82 
209 
241 
118 



257 
72 
53 



126 
113 

67 
vii 
326 
188 
171 

47 
212 
248 

263 



28 

81 

8 

XV 

122 
266 
211 
377 



434 



ROSE NEIGHBOKHOOD SKETCHES 



122, 285: 



Lettie, ; 



Horton, 45 ; Ellen, John, 46 ; Lydia, 

108; William, 280; Ziphe, 61 

Houghton, B. F., 264, 377 

Housel, Mary, 70 

Houston, Anna, 92 

How, Elijah, xv 

Howard, Frank, 291 ; Henry, 170, 302, 
377 ; Hosea, 114 ; Jerusha, 118 ; 
John, 188 ; Roxy, 

Howell, Dorothy, 

Howland, George, 38, 
Jeannette, 

Hoyt, Addie, 98 ; Adin, 
Mary, 

Hubbard, Alonzo, 

Hudson, Jane, 87 ; John, 

Huffman, Jane, 138 ; Myron, 

Humphrey, Florence V., 

Hunn, Clayton, Harrison, James, Je 
rome, Margaret, Parsons, Sally, 166 
Samuel, 

Hunt, William A., William S., 

Hunter, Robert, 

Hurlburt, 

Hurst, Charles, 

Hurter, Burkhart, 72, 
Charles, 20; Willie, 

Hyatt, Mary, 

Hyde, John, 

Indians and Relics, 

Irish, Chester and family, 

Irwin, 

Jackson, Clara, 

Jakeway, Augusta, 

Janes, Orinda, 

Jeffers, Betsey, 173 ; Charles, 190, 309 ; 
Daniel, 241; Esther, 186; George 
and family, 182, 377 ; Hannah, 185 ; 
Henry, 307; James, 377; James J., 
172 ; Jane, 189 ; Jeannette, 37 ; John, 
173; Mary, 210 ; Nancy, 173; Nathan, 
182, 186, family, 189; Ovid, 189; 
Robert, 99, 173, 185, family, 186; 
Robert N., 208,307,312 

Jenkins, James, 25 

Jenner, James, 47 

Jewell, Alvah, 227, 229, 231 ; Barney, 
Henry, 232; Isaac, 231 

Johnson, Benjamin, 170, 210: Clar- 
ence, 198; Daniel, 287; David, 234, 
family, 235; Edna, 170; Etta, 159; 
Prances, 46 ; sons, 276 ; James, 278 ; 



115 

72 

122 

107 

32 

146 

129 

81 



156, 166 

47 

195 

99 

163 

family, 72; 

20 

53 

121, 129 

viii 

5 

48 

81, 221 

101 

75 



Dr. Lawrence, vi, 15; Leland, 121, 
169, 170; MjTa, 169; Rhoda, 170; 
Thomas, 
Jones, Adelbert, 24, 74 ; Alfred, 53, 82, 
92; Betsey, 183; Frank, 91 ; George, 
150, 255 ; Henry, 24, 86, 87 ; Isaac, 
24,71,82; John E., 24, 71; Lydia, 
121 ; Margaret, 124 ; Mary, 24, 245 ; 
Melinda, 135; Pardon, 124, 149, 150, 
241, 254; Perry, 26; " Sammy," 20; 
Samuel and family, 293, 305, 377; 
Sarah and family, 

Jordan, Mary, 41 ; Ransom, 9; Wil- 
liam, 

Joyce, Mary, 

Judge, John, 

Kaiser, Fidelus and family, 175 ; John, 
176, 257 ; Valentine, 

Kamp, Kasper, 

Kanouse, Alice, 

Keisler, Carrie, 

Kellogg, Allie, 32 ; Almira, 32 ; Ben- 
jamin, 24, 27, 29; Betsey, 29, 32; 
Charles, 26, 29, 32 ; Ethan, 26, 27, 29 ; 
Experience, 6 ; Frank, 15, 153, 206 ; 
Harriet, 29; John, 6, 11, 29,30,32; 
John, 2d, 32, 67 ; John C, 27 ; Levern, 
15: Lewis, 29; Lucy, 27 ; Maria, 29; 
Permilla, 11, 32 ; Moses, 71 ; Rebecca, 
29; Sophia, 78; Stephen, ix, 6, 12, 
13, 15, 17, 32; William, 29, 51; Wil- 
liam, 15; William B., 29, 32, 256; 
Vicey, 

Kelsey, Almira, 

Kenyon, 

Ketchum, 

Kilburn, 

Kimberly, Harriet, 

King, Eunice, 44 ; Samuel, 99 ; Thomas 
and family, 

Kingsley, Charles, 

Kingsland, Edward, 

Kinkaid, Susan, 

Klinck, Bert, 114; Carrie, 114; Ed- 
ward, 27, 114, 165; Ellsworth, 11, 
114 ; George, 292 ; Henry, 114 ; 
Henry C, 7, 114, 260; William, 

Klippel, Elizabeth, 222; Henry and 
family, 

Knapp, 22, 49: Eli, 108, 304; Fred, 87, 
277 ; Hiram, 206 ; Jane, 27 ; Jerusha, 
46; Nathan, 87; Sarah, 



56 



82 

43 
65 

82 

223 

182 

289 

76 



71 
109 
81 
29 
48 
248 

278 
122 
xii 
241 



114 
214 

277 



ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 



435 



Knight, Abram, 54 ; Susau, 138 ; 

Thomas, 295 

Knights, Melvin, 90 

Knox, Charles, 231 

Koon, Di'. L. and family, 301 

Lackey, John, 258; Judd, 175, 280, 377; 
Orrin, 207, 377; Sanford, 208, 266; 
Sarah, 208; Susan, 208 

LaDue, Catharine, 253; Duane, 32; 

Mary, 30 

Lake, 77; Anna, 134: Arniene, 91; 
Byron, 91, 92; Charles and family, 
91; Eliza, 86, 92; Henry, Hermon, 
92; Ira, 82, 92; Lucina, 120; Nancy, 
82, 92; Wellington, 92 

Lamb, Addison, 138: Almii-a, 135: 
Cora, 138; Hayden, 114; Hiram, 139; 
Ira, 85; Isaac, 136, family, 137; Isaac, 
Jr., and family, 137; John, 
129, 136, 137: Mary, 138: Minnie, 
131: Myron, 105, 131, 136, 138; Peter 
and family, 130: William, 105, 113, 139 
Lambert, Thomas, 223 

L'Amoreaux, Elizabeth, Joel, 59: 

Peter, 59, 60; Sullivan, 59 

Lampson, Edward, Polly, 81; T. J., 

25, 81: Theodore, 81 

Lane, Irving, 182, 241: Johnson, 179, 
181; Loren, iii, 179; Melvin, 183; 
Nelson, 179 

Lang, Christina, 195 

Langley, Millens, 117, family, 118: 

Myron, 118; S. Wing, 117, 118, 142 

Lansing, G. Y., 195 

Lape, Ella, 220; Mary, 44: S. W., 215, 217 
Lapham, George, 187 

LaRook, family, 148, 164; Edward, 220 
Lathrop, Ira, 161 

Lavender, James, . 199, 210 

Leader, Reuben and fiimily, 286 

Leaird, 40; Charles, 40: Ida, 40 

Learn, Adam, 197 

Leaton, Alice, 58; Jane, 25, 51 

Lee, Addis C, Alfred, 62, 156, family, 
309, 310, 329: Arthur, ix; Chester, 
55, 61, 63, 72; Clarinda, 36, 38, 63; 
Clifford, 63; Henry, 20: Joel, 38, 62, 
242; Joel N., 16, 62, 63, 81, 122, 273, 
329; John, 60, 62, 67, 329; John W., 
55; Judson, 55; Laurinda, 305; 
Lovina, 16, 122; Lyman, 9, 36, 55, 
62, 329: Mary, 55, 63; Nelson, 60; 



Newton, 60, 93; Oscar, 60, 93; 
Theresa, 112 

Legg, DeLancey, 293; E. E. and 
family, 201: Lafayette, 194, 302; Ly- 
man and family, 293, 302 
Leland, Gale, Isaac, James, Lewis, 125 
Lemon, B., 226 
Leonard, 21: Sarah A., 27 
Lester, John, 223 
Lethbridge, Jerry, 224 
Levanway, Edra, 202; Henry, 201 
Lewis, 7: Anna, 90; Daniel and 
family, 89; E. M., 226: Levi, 85; P. 
T., 89, 123; Sally, 127: Thomas, 119 
Lineks, Henry, 204 
Lindley, Susan, Willie, 258 
Livermore, Elizabeth, 99, 302: Emma, 
29, 299: Eunice, 20: Polly, 16; Ruth, 
12; Wesley, 12 
Lockwood, 49; Bm-t, 33; George and 

family, 21; Isaac, 13, 21: family, 33 

Lomis, Fanny, 52 

Londergan, Michael, 106, family, 117 

Loryman, William, 203, 206 

Lounsberry, xv: Daniel, 17: Isaac, 21; 

Polly, 48 

Loveless, Columbus, 58; Crandall, 26; 
Nathan, 76; Ransom, 28, 76: Wash- 
ington, 26 
Lovejoy, Addison, 237; Alvira, 85; 
Anna, 86, 92, 149: Augusta, 82; 
Augustus, 71, 82, 90; Daniel, 78, 79, 
83, 84; Darius, 29, 83; David, 83; 
Eleanor, 86: Ellen, 85: Eliza, 24, 71, 
82: Eson, 85; Florence, 92, 147; 
Harvey, 78; Henry, 68, 78, 82; 
Jerusha, 69, 79; James, 78, 82, 92; 
John, 83, family, 237: Julia, 80, 83: 
Laura, 60, 78; Lewis, 82; Lucetta, 
94; Minerva, 78; Nancy, 80; Nellie, 
92: Nellie E., 82; Nelson, 85, 109; 
Norman, 78, 84, 86, 109; Parmer, 68, 
77; Parmer, Jr., 78; Silas, 53, 74, 84, 
86, 88, 92; Sophronia, 85, 94; Wil- 
liam, 78, 82 
Lowell, Mary, 67 
Luce, Sally, 130 
Luffman, Edward, 202 
Lumbert, George, William, 188 
Lund, Elizabeth, 98 
Lyman, Charles, 106, 107, 108; David, 
106, 108, 133, 174, 279: Flavia, 107; 



436 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 

Frederick, 107; George F., 276; Harvey, 79, 83, family, 84, 90, 92 ; 

Henry, 377; Jacob, 198, 278; Jesse Robert and family, 83,90,93,95 

and family, 197, 208, 377; John, 106, Masonic, 370 

107; John D., 107; John W., 197; Matthews and family, 263,292 

Levi, 198; Lavius, 106, 107; Milo, 196, Maxon, Mrs. S. C, 46 

197; Samuel, 106, 107, 276; Samuel Maxwell, Hugh, xiii 

H., 107, 129; William, 107 Maybe, Isaac, 146 

Lyon, 54; Abel, 255: Angeline, 62; Mead, Mary A., 117 

Luoetta, 259; Parley, 139, 2.59; Walter Meehan, Michael and family, 46 

and family, 292; William H., xvi, 258 Melvin, Jonathan, 52, 103 

McCamly, Jane, 44 Merritt, George H., 288 ; Rachel, 32 

McCoy, WilUam, 261 Messenger, Louise, 163 ; Nettie, 168 ; 

McDorman, Michael and family, 110 Walter and family, 236 

McDougal, Mary, 43 Methodist Church burned, 337 

Mace, Alonzo, 67, 102 Methodist Church dedicated, 337 

McFarland, James, 87 Methodist Church, History of, 327 

Mclntyre, Ella, 174; Samuel, 132 Methodist Church officers, 340 

Mack, Jay, 178 Methodist Preachers' names, 343 

McKoon, Charles, 33; Hattie, 33; Ida, Metz, H., 106 

iii, 33, 57; Jairus, 32,33,57; Mairetta, Milem, Ann, Christopher, George and 

32; Merritt, 4, 19, 21, 33, 377; family, William, 195 

WilHam, 27, 32, 33, 80 Millard, Oliver, 145 

McMullen, Edwin, 81 Miller, George E., 132 ; Eliza, 100 ; 

McMurdy, William, 295 Jacob, 55, family, 61, 312 ; Philip 

MoNab, Andrew, xii, 140 and family, 218; Sally, 55; Samuel, 

McQueen, Eliza, 138; Jennie, 105 74 ; Stephen, 189 

McRorie, J. W., 203, 215 Mills, Isaac, 17 

Mc Wharf, Almira, 105 ; George, Jane, Miner, Charles, 163 ; family, 166, 

105 ; John, 103, 114 ; John M., 105 ; 170 ; Darwin, 168 ; Deacon, 71 ; 

Theodore and family, 105, 245 Edward, 170 ; Fernando, 166, 170 ; 

Mafflt, T. T., 246 Frank, 230 ; Gilbert, 133 ; Harmon, 

Mains, Jane A., 126 281 ; Irwin, 170 ; Isaac, 88, 252 ; 

Malcom, Elizabeth, 143 Mary, 88 ; Philo, 170, 206 ; Riley 

Mallery, A. H. and family, 211 ; and family, 170 

Oscar, 211 Mirick, Charles, 56, 298 ; George, 56, 
Markham, D. C, 274 ; Thomas, 279 266, family, 298; Hiram, 102, 246, 
Maroney, Walter, 27 266, family, 271, 285, 377 ; Ira, 102, 
Marquette, Philip, 230 266, 285, 377 ; Leander, 298 ; Solo- 
Marriott, John and family, 299 mon, 265, 285 ; Thomas, 266 
Marsh, Amos, 19, 49, 50 ; Cornelius, Mitchell, Barnard, 132, 206 ; Darwin, 
25, 27, 50, 51, family, 178 ; Garrett, 207 ; Eliza, 182, 209 ; Frank, 178, 
51 ; Henry, 50, 51, 76 ; Jonathan, 207 ; Jacob, 213, 218; Leonard, 206, 
14 ; Lorinda, Matilda, 51 ; Pendar, 209 ; Lovina, 181, 207 ; Lucinda, 
XV, 19, 42, 46, 50 ; Rebecca, 27, 51 ; 177, 207 ; Mary, 230 ; Philander, 
Roswell, 1, 50 ; Uriah, 46, 50, 63 ; 177, 206, 376, 377 ; Philander, 2nd, 
William, 22, 50 207, 377 ; Phcebe, 209 ; Sarah, 207 ; 
Marsteiner, Louis, 56 ; Michael and William, 177 
family, 55 Mix, William, 206, 287, 303 
Marsten, Abraham, 1st and 2d, 101 Monroe, Elnora, 120 
Martin, Daniel, 226 ; Edward, 37 ; Moon, Margaret, 261 

Philip, 43 Moore, 11 ; Abram, 25 ; Charles and 

Mason, Alvin, Amos, 83; Laura, 69; family, 120; Eliza, 42; Newton, 76; 



ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 



437 



Orrin, 68 

Morey, Charity, 85, 109 ; Delevan, 
Derrick, 109 ; Elijah, 85, 109 ; 
Horace and family, 241; Lydia, 86; 
Richard, 107, family, 109 ; Warren, 131 
Morris, Hiram, 97 ; Lewis, 218 ; 
Lucinda, 97 ; Orrin, 97, 99 ; Robert, 
X ; Russell, 100 

Morrison, John, 72 

Morrow, Henry, 313 

Mosher, Nancy, 118 

Moslein, Poster, 286, 311 

Mott, Chauncey, Jerusha, Sumner, 130 
Hunger, Naomi, 60 

Munsell, Anginette, 84 ; Damaris, 69 ; 
Dorman, 69, 70, 377 ; Dorman, 2d, 
81, 84, family, 95 ; Blnathan, 70, 
81 ; Emeline, 69 ; Harvey, 90, 95 ; 
Lawson, 68, 69, family, 70 ; Levern, 
70 ; Lucien, 70 ; Mary, 69, 88 ; Silas, 
69, 70 ; Sophia, 87 ; Will, 69 

Munson, E. Y., 25 

Murder Story, 295 

Murray, 67 ; Betsey, 91 ; John N. 
and family, 67, 376 ; Maggie, 201 ; 
Mary, " 192 

Myers, John and family, 212 ; Mary, 

255 ; Rhoda, 29 

Neeley, Dr. N., 286 ; Clarence, 286 

Newberry, Huldah, 224 

Newspapers in Rose, 372 

Newton, Rev. J. B., 258 

Nicholas, John, xi 

Nichols, Anna, 85 ; Daniel, 71 ; Jona- 
than, 83, 90 
Niles, William, 73, 264, 304 
Norris, Ellen, 38 
Northrop, Juliette, 96 
Norton, Daniel and family, 95 ; Dar- 
win, 67, 78, 99 
Nusbickel, Margaret, 41; E., 181 
Oaks, Charles G. and family, 67, 260 
Charles G., 2d, iii, 126, family, 135 
Charles W., 133, 135; Elizabeth, 66 
Marilla, 135 
Odd Fellowship, 371 
Odelle, Charlotte, 126; Ebenezer, 289; 

Elizabeth, Sanford, 80 

Officers of Rose, 376 

Ogram, James, 6; John, 6, 252, 294; 

Polly, 6 

Ohl, Margaret, 212 



Olmstead, 15, 42; Eunice, 62; Jesse, 
53; Millard, 42; Simeon, 105; Wil- 
liam, 18, 24 
Onions, Growing of, ^ viii 
Osborn, Abner, 58, 104, 172; Caroline, 
120; Charles and family, 10; Ed- 
ward, 308, 309; Elijah, 58, 65, 303, 
309; Francis and family, 158; Isaac, 
58, 66; Isaac, 2d, 102, 103; James, 
158; John and family, 58, 66; John, 
2d, 172, 277; Mervin, 158; Samuel, 
58, 63, 66; Samuel, 2d, .56; family, 
66; Robert, 201; William, 158 
Osgood, Artemas, 4, 5, 11, 114, 116, 260; 
Caroline, 7; Emma, 5,25; Frances, 
4, 11, 57; John, 260; Linus, 11, 
family, 11, 63, 107; Lucien, 4, 11, 81, 
family, 273, 377; Mary, 11, 116; 
Nannie, 11, 113 
Otto, Emily, 144; Guilford, James, 

100; Sally, 166; Samuel, 61, 100 

Overton, Clarissa, 36, 44; Emily, 9, 19, 
21; Howard, 21; Laura, 21, 36; Lu- 
cilla, 21; Sheldon, 7, 8, 19, family, 

21, 36, 46 
Ownership of land, ix 

Page, James, 377 

Paine, 115; Mary, 205; Peter, 166 

Palmer, Abram, xv 

Parrish, Drusilla, 27; Jemima, 161 

Parslow, George, 133; Minnie, 107; 

Nelson, 131 

Partridge, Burton, 96, 131; John, 144; 

Mattie, 133 

Patterson, Celinda, George, Lucy, 81 

Paylor, Hannah, 222 

Pearsall, Andi-ew, 90 

Pease, Alanson, 178, 186; John, 178; 

Merrill, 176, 178, 199 

Peck, Arvine, 22; Betsey, 88, 91,255; 
Charles, 88; Harlow, 29; Horace, 
31, 83; Parisade, 83; Willard, 29 

Peckham and his balsam, 174 

Pendleton, C. B., 73 

Peppermint, Growth of, viii 

Perkins, Horace, 46; Nellie, 125 

Petty, Betsey, 258 

Phelps & Gorham purchase, x 

Phillips, Abram, 18, 166; Alice, 170; 
Barbara, 81; Charles, 168; Clarence, 
168; Frank, Horace, 18; Isaac, 18; 



438 



ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 



John, 168, 169; Joseph, iii, family, 
157, 162; Mary, 74; Paine, 94, 95; 
Phoebe, 81; Rosetta, 222; William, 
156, family, 163; William, 168 

Pierce, Ebenezer, 28, 200; Elizabeth, 
29; Eugene, 9; Harriet, 11; Jere- 
miah, 29; John, 9; Matilda, 29, 164 
Pimm, Enos T., 254, 286 
Pinny, Pi-iscilla, 74 
Pitcher, 115; John, 24; Helen, 198; 

Mary, 165 

Pitts, William, 74 

Pixley, William, 169, 172 

Playford, Elizabeth, 61 

Plum, Green, 200 

Plumb, Asa, 38; Chester, 171 

Plunkett, Diana, 99 

Pomeroy, 29; Samuel, 27 

Porter, Asa, 235; George, 53 

Post, Alice, 76; George and family, 
125; Jotham, 70, 73, 76; Martha, 
54; Sarah, 70 

Postmasters in Rose, 285 

Potter, Emma, 92; Jane, 83 

Powers, Edward, 104; Electa, 30; 

Maggie, 65; Nicholas, 104 

Preemption Lines, x, xi 

Presbyterian Church, History of, 353 

Presbyterian Preachers, Names of 358 
Prescott, Imogene, 88 

Preston, Albert, 85; Hovey, 138, 141; 

Joseph, 44, 138 

Price, Sarah, 73 

Prindle, Michael, 141 

Pritchard, George, 230 

Proseus, Allen, 134, family, 142; F. 

M., 134; Frank, 131, 134; John, 118 

Pulteney Estate, x 

Pultz, Margaret, 166 

Purdy, Betsey, 160 

Putnam, Dewey and family, 216; Her- 

vey, 216, 223; Joel, 216, 217 

Quackenbush, Hannah, 133 

Quail, James, 61 

Quertershan, Dillene, 110 

Race, Isaac, 257, 262, 277 

Rankart, Mary, 212 

Raplee, Catharine, 135 

Raver, Carrie, 222 

Ray, Rev. Charles, 281 ; William, 92 

Ready, Alexander, 193 

Ream, Fred., 177, 179, family, 181, 



377 ; George, 192; Lany, 176; Peter, 181 
Reed, Charles, 53, 74 

Rekugler, John and family, 226 

Remington, Freelove, 46 

Reynolds, 44 ; Rev. G. W., 264 ; John, 27 
Rhea, Arnold, 165, family, 200 ; John, 

165, 179 
Rheinhart, Andrew, 214 

Rice, Charles, 12, 25 ; Decatm-, 25 ; 
Frank, 6, 25 ; George, 25, 32 ; Geo. 
W., 113; Hattie, 25; Henry, 88, 
253 ; Jared, 25 ; Jonathan, 6, 12, 25, 
27 ; Lavina, 26 

Rich, Alice, 114 ; Clarissa, 100 

Richards, Charles, 15 

Richardson, John and family, 99 

Ridgeway, A., 223 

Riggs, Eli, 159 ; Gowan, 80, 112 ; 
Hannah, 160 ; Henry, 80, 160 ; Hes- 
ter, 80 ; James and family, 191 ; 
Norman, William and family, 160 

Rinkel, Sophia, 226 

Rising, Ebenezer, 305 

Roads, Public, xv 

Roat, Joseph, 8, family, 9 

Robinson, Catharine, Eliza, 97 ; 
Henry, 96, 98 ; James, 96 ; Jane, 
John W., 97 ; Thomas, 97, 98, 376 ; 
WiUiam H., 97 

Roberts, Alpheus, 115 ; Emory, John, 143 
Rockwell, James, 114 

Rodenbach, PhiHp, 215 ; family, 216 

Rodwell, George, 46, 48 

Roe, Addie, Alfred, 15 ; Alice, 20 ; 
Austin, 4, 19, 21, 36, 48, 49 ; Austin 
M., 4, 15, 20, 22, 49; Austin, 2d, 
Brewster, 17 ; Catharine, 19 ; 
Charles, 15 ; Daniel, 70, 71, 90, 128, 
335 ; Daniel J., 19 ; Eliza, 19, 22 ; 
Fanny, 20 ; George, 16, 20, 309 ; 
John, 18, 19, 20, 23, 48, 49, 50 ; Mrs. 
J. B., 5, 12, 29 ; Merwin, 20, 21, 49 ; 
Mortimer, 15 ; Ottie, 20 ; Sarah, 
19 ; Seymom-, 71 ; Willis, 17 ; 
William, 133 

Root, Cyrus, 377 ; R., 29 

Rose and Wayne, an address, 315 

Rose and Nicholas, xi, 320 

Rose in the Rebellion, 384 

Rose, Betsey, 45 ; J. A., 153 ; Mar- 
garet, 41 ; William C, 6, 131 
ROSE, ROBERT S., xi 



ROSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 



439 



Kose churches, 324 

Ross, EHza, 146 

Roswell, EUzabeth, 246 

Rote, George, 74 

Rounds, John C, 132 

Rundell, Lucy, 74 ; Rhoda, 61 

Ruppert, John H., 164, 310 

Ryan, Anna, 90; Michael, 115 ; Sarah, 90 
Sager, Frank, 37 

St. John, Alonsworth, 71 ; Jacob, 46 ; 

Wallace, 188 

Salisbury, Hiram, 283, 315 ; John, 71 ; 

Milbimi, 295 

Salmon, George, 22 

Salter, Peter, 133 

Sampson, Ethan, Gamaliel and fam- 
ily, 29 ; Putnam, 11, 29 ; Sally, 29, 83 
Sanders, 30 ; Clark, 32; A. J., 72 

Saunders, Augusta, 113 ; George, 53, 

309 ; William H., 53, 305, 308 

Saxton, Albert, 27, 28 ; Alzina, 27 ; 
Drusilla, 26 ; Jane, Lucy, 27 ; Mar- 
tin, 6, 27, 28, 51 ; Mary, 27 ; Phoebe, 
27 ; Philo, 6, 24, 27 

Schofield, Jennie, 261 

School District No. 1, 234; School 
District No. 2, 123; School Dis- 
trict No. 3, 102; School District 
No. 4, 242 ; School District No. 5, 
36; School District No. 6, 51; 
School District No. 7, 1 ; School 
District No. 8, 191; School Dis- 
trict No. 9, 77; School District 
No. 10, 150; School District No. 
11, 172; School District No. 12, 
211, School District, Preemption, 
225 ; School District, York's, 228 

Scott, Charity, 44; Emeline, 65 

Seager, Asher, 222; Clarissa, 228 
Claude, 122 ; David and family, 221 
Elizabeth,, 128 George, 122, 277 
Jacob, 247; John, 232; John K. and 
family, 221; Julia, 215; Monroe, 
220; Munson, 231 

Seaman, 88 ; Eleanor, Lois, 44 

Sears, Dolly, 78 : James, 47 

Sebring, w'illiam, 229, 254, 257 

Sedgewick, Betsey, 197 

Sedore, Ida, 91 ; Julia, 195 

Seelye, Alfred, 9 ; Alice, 30 ; Ange- 
line, 8, 54 ; Anna, 8 ; Benjamin, 9, 
family, 145 ; Burt, 146 ; Caroline, 



145 ; Delos, 1, 3, 8, 9, 30, 35, 36, .54, 

56, 257 ; Elnora, 9, 63 ; Ensign, 2 ; 
Ernest, iii, 57, 94 ; Estelle, 4, 33 ; 
Eudora,4, 11, 82; Fred, 146; George, 
1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 10, 22, 30, 34, 47, 51, 56, 
68, 98, 112, 272, 377 ; Mrs. George, 
5, 10, 11, .54, 67 ; George S., vi, 25, 
58 ; Irwin, 128, 133, 142, 146 ; Jane, 
30 ; Jay, 141, 145 ; Joseph, 1, 2, 38, 

57, 139 ; Judson, 4, 33, 37, 38, 260 ; 
Julia, 144 ; Lewis, 38 ; Mary, 3, 5 ; 
Nehemiah and family, 9, 63, 145 ; 
Polly, 38 

SelHck, Sally, 129 

Settlements, First, xiv 

Seymour, Anna, 157 ; Norman, 93 

Shanker, J., 155 

Shannon, Samuel, Theodore, 232 

Shattuck, Mary, 255 

Shaw, Charity, 231 ; Rev. Clemence, 

257 ; John P., 217 

Shaver, C. M., 133, 263; Mary, Nancy, 43 
Shear, Arthur, 65 ; John and family, 
65, 153 ; Judson, 153 ; Peter and 
family, 111,112; Stephen, 65; Thad- 
deus, 65 ; Will, 102, 112 

Sheffield, Dr. James, 4, 56 ; James, 10, 
56, 58; James, 2d, 10; James C, 
56 ; Joel, 10, 11, 56, 113, 254, 377 ; 
Judson, 10, 261, 377 ; Kendrick, 5, 
9, 10, 56 ; Lucy, 5, 10 ; Mattie, 10 ; 
Sarah, 11, 56 ; Willard, 56 

Shepard, 73, 75 ; Aaron, 4, 5, 6, 12, 13, 
44, 78 ; Harriet, 15 ; Harry, 42, 165 ; 
Heman, 10; Jerusha, 23; Polly C, 
4, 112; Seth, xv, 13, 19 

Sherman, Adelbert, 254, 273; Charles, 
11,248; Charles B., 10, family, 11, 
248; Chester, 11, 248; Clara, 1.55: 
Blias, 24, 44, 250; Ezra, 11, 248; Ezra 
A., 11, 248, 377; Frank, 11, 113, 248, 
377; George, 11, 248, 2.53, 265, 290; 
Harrison, 251; Henry, iii, 21, 250; 
Henry B., 262; Jennie, 172; Capt. 
John "and family, 249, 250, 274, 299, 
312; John, iii, 101, family, 250; 
John E., 262; Lucy, 11; Orra, 250; 
Orrin, 250, 2.55; Willard, 11, 248, 
377 ; William, iii, 21, 21, 26, 31, 36, 
76, 104, 248, family, 250 

Silver, Ella, 243 

Sizer, Thirza, 195 



440 



ROSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 



Skidmore, 103; John and family, 119, 292 
Skut, Alexander, 129, family, 135; 
Annette, 135; Charles, 134; Daniel 
and family, 135; Prank, 132; Han- 
nah, 104 ; Ira, Jasper, Jerome, 135 ; 
Jonathan and family, 134 ; Orrin, 132, 134 
Slaght, Everett, 132, 143 

Slaughter, Zemira, 118 

Smalley, Sarah, 142 

Smart, George, 9, 11; John, 9, 206; 
Mary, 9, 11, 40 ; Newton, 41 ; Thomas, 
9; William, 9, 41, 125 

Smith, Ambrose, 91 ; Ananaias, 41, 45, 
46; Byron, 27; Charles, 76; Chaun- 
cey and family, 70, 74, 75 ; Cornelia, 
185; David, 63, 243, 377; Duke, 20; 
Edmund, 99, 141; Eliza, 91, 99; 
Elkanah, 141; George, 86,91,98; G. 
F., 146; Georgle, 91; Halsey, 72, 
83, 90; Harry, 91 ; John and family, 
139; John I., 162; Leonard, 67; 
Lucy, 70, 74, 82 ; Marshall, 45 ; Mor- 
gan, 143; Samuel, 103; Solomon, 
90, family, 91; Thomas, 66, 141; 
Timothy, 20, 45; Washington, 45; 
William, 90 

Snow, Alonzo, 12, 195, 255; Carrie, 12; 

Lorenzo, iii, 291 

Snyder, Amariah, Azro, Charity, 
Charles, 42 ; Harvey, 42 ; Henry, 41 ; 
John, 42 ; Wilbur, 42, 47 ; William, 
40, 42, 43 

Sober, Jonathan and family, 235 

Soil and products, vii 

Sons of Veterans, 371 

Soper, Alfred, 9; Annette, 9, 10; 
Brewster, 7, 257, family, 258; Dan- 
iel and family, 7, 30, 32 ; Egbert, 9, 
36, 37 ; Frank, 237, 258, 260 ; Hattie, 
223 ; Piatt and family, 216 ; Robert, 
7; Sophia, 209; William, 7 

Soule, 53 ; Florence, 69 ; Ira, 257, 272 ; 

Ira T., 257, 272,377; Steplien, 20,257, 377 
Soiu-s, Alfred, 105; Burt, 67; Cynthia, 
155; Lottie, 146; Martin, 131; Rox- 
ana, 20 

Southwick, Samuel, 102, 107, 265; Sub- 
mit, 245; William, 73 
Sowls, William H. and family, 40, 44 
Spaulding, Mary E., 198 
Spencer, EUhu, 32 
Spong, Alfred, 217 



Sprague, Hiram, 67 

Springer, James, 23; John, 5, 23, 48 

Squires, 22; Richard, 61 

Stack, Jacob and family, 196 

Stacy, Hannah, 38 

Stafford, George, 20, 22 ; Sarah, 20 

Stanley, Alice, 201 ; David and family, 

145; Plumie, 145; Sally, 136 

Stansell, G. W., 132; Nicholas, 150, 

241; William, 241 

Stark, Amanda, 61 

Stearns, A. H., 116; Charity, 124; 

Dora, 171 

Steinhart, 121 ; Hannah, 122 

Steitler, Charles, 212 ; Henry, 203, 212 ; 

William, 290 

Stell, Charles H., 289 

Stevens, Charles, 164; Harriet, 312; 

Lucy, 56; Samuel, 67 

Stewart, Allen, 52; George, 52, fami- 
ly, 53, 61, 69, 71; James and family, 
52, 64; Jennie, 43; John, 118; Lott, 
51, 52; William, 177, 183 

Stickles, 8, 40; Andrew, 105; Catha- 
rine, 188; Edward, 4, 17; Mary, 106 
Stone, 5 ; Homer, 7 ; Mariette, 81 ; 

Mary, 33; Warren, 85 

Stopfel, 164; Catharine, 65 ; John, 159; 

Louis, 164 

Strang, Eva, 196 

Streeter, Alonzo, 98, 179; Henrj% 179; 

Josiah, 179, 263 

Strong, Charles, 157 

Stryker, Lucy, 105 

Stubley, George and family, 262 

Sumner, Bbenezer, 149 

Surveys of Rose, xiii 

Sutherland, Charles, 220 

Sutphin, W. H., 157 

Swart, Henrietta, 37 

Swayne, Samuel, 262 

Sweet, 12 ; Jane, 263 ; Thomas, 223 

Swift, Amanda, 171; Carrie, 37, 201; 

Helen, ^ 189 

Tait, Theresa, * 72 

Talcott, 75 : George, 28 ; Welthea, 74 

Talton, John, 122; Joseph, 273 

Taylor, Allen, 98; Elias, 25; Eliza, 26; 
Geliza, 97 ; Lydia, 26 ; Ruth, 97, 98 : 
Vesta, 26 ; Zadoc, 61, 95, 97 

Tebbetts, T. D., 133 

Temperance in Rose, 365 



EOSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 



441 



Ten Eyke, 137 

Terbush, Clara, 128; Effie, 27; Jack- 
son, 26, 32 
Terry, Horace, 134 ; Jennie, 33 
Terwilliger, Melville, 33 
Thayer, Stephen, 286, 306 
Thomas, 93; Charles, 42, 294, 312, 
family, 313; Elijah, 377; Eron, xiv, 
xvi, 76, 285, 288, 294, 305, 306, family, 
313, 314, 376, 377 ; Jerome, 313, 377 : 
Lorenzo, 42, 305; Nathan W. and 
family, 258 ; N. W., 61, 311, 313, 377 ; 
Philip, 109; Sophia, 101, 284 
Thomas & Collier, 258 
Thompson, Albert, 227 ; Camilla, Cla- 
rissa, Cordelia, Edwin, Elijah, 31 ; 
Ezekiel, 226; Jane, 159; Robert, 
226; Samuel, 31; Samuel P., 226: 
William, 141 
Thorn, Joel, 139 
Thorpe, Joseph, 194 
Tillow, Ann, 19 
Tillson, Charles, 273 ; family, 299 
Tindall, Charles and family, 227, 228; 
Hannah, 139; Henry, 289; Jerome, 
228, 290; " Parm," 140, 302, 377; 
Philip, 302, 303 
Tipple, Eliza, Philip, Jacob, 18, 167 ; 

Mi's. Jacob, 166 

Titles and Agents, xii 

Titus, Rev. Anson, viii 

Toles, 84, 85 ; Ebenezer, 85, 86, 98, 224 
Ezra, 86; Julia, 24, 86; Lucy, 39, 86 
Matthew, 86 ; Orson and family, 86 
Truman, 86 

Tompkins, N. W., 25, 26 

Tooker, Francis M., 214 

Town, Absalom, 37 ; Asa, xv, 37, 38 ; 
David, 38, 88, 282; Emily, 38; Eu- 
gene, 38 ; Hannah, 38 ; Henry, 38 ; 
Lavinla, 37; Lewis, 36; Lewis S., 
38, 94, 256 ; Lucy, 38 ; May, 38 ; Mary, 
38, 63; Mary A., 39; Milton, 8, 36, 
38, 60, 63, 256 ; Norris, 38 ; Polly, 39 ; 
Sarah, 38 ; Silas, xv, 36, 37 

Town Names, Reasons for, 317 

Tracy, Sarah J., 65 

Traher, Ellen, Harry, 253 

Transue, Aurilla, 39; Rev. George, 264 
Trask, Pamelia, 29 

Trautman, Fi-ed, 213, family, 214 

Traver, Asa, 43 



Travers, Mary R., 

Trimble, John, 

Trippe, Morton, 133, 

Troup, Robert, 

Tucker, Anna, 89; Daniel, 

Turvey, Anthony, 

Turner, 46 ; Philip, 55, 255, 280 ; Royal, 
123, family, 

Twamley, Alice, 229; Martha, 

Tyler, Charlotte, 11 ; Eliza, 

Ullrich, Charles, 65 ; family, 66 ; Irving, 

Underbill, William, 

Underwood, Elizabeth, 

Upson, Carroll, Frank, Homer, Josiah, 
William, 

Utter, N., 

Valentine, 281 ; Anna, 32 ; Asahel, 119 ; 
Bert, Charles, 283; Cornelia, 39; 
Frank, 282 : George, 260 ; Harry, 67, 
257, 309, 377 ; Jackson, 39, 282, fami- 
ly, 283, 376, 377; Marvin, 283; Dr. 
Peter, 240, 281 ; Dr. Richard, 

Valley School, History of. 

Van Amberg, Eliza, 170 ; German, 169 ; 
Harmon and family, 199 ; James, 
169, 308 ; Sarah, 

Van Antwerp, Dell, 65, 304; Edwin 
and family, 65 ; Evelyn, John, John 
H., 65; Simeon J., 64, family. 

Van Auken, James, Simeon, 239, 

Van Buren, Cornelius, 131, 142; Mar- 
tin, 41; Peter, 27, 114, 

Van Buskirk, Simeon, Tliomas, 

Vance, Rebecca, 

Vanderburg, Abram, 41, 122: Eliza- 
beth, 122; Emma, 113, 179; Etta, 
Frances, 113; James, 103, 121; John, 
iii, 113 ; Sarah, 107, 113; Wilham, 113, 

Vandercook, Frank, 201; John, 174, 
198, 200, 201: Lucy, 189; Michael, 
198, 210: Michael, 2d, 201; Phoebe, 
187, 219; Robert, 174, 195; William, 

174, 

Vanderoef, Clarence, 38, 276; James, 
41, 54, 55, family, 310; John, 38, 54; 
Post, 54; Rachel, 55: William, 

38, 54, 275, 

Vanderpool, Charles, 

Van Dusen, 37: Hiram, 

Van Horn, Matthias, 

Van Marter, Fanny, 

Van Ostrand, Henry, 149, 291; Per- 



133 
217 
142 
xii 
90 
213 

203 

216 

32 

66 

96 

265 

62 

227 



282 
361 



170 



65 
240 

377 
183 



122 



198 



377 
302 
40 
181 
179 



442 



ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 



melia, 62 220; Viola, 292 

Van Sicklen, Ogden, 136; William Waterbury, Aaron, 213; Emma, Hiel, 

and family, 137 John, Mary, 214; Phoebe, 189 

Van Tassel, Adelbert, 301: Henry, 307 Waterman, 307; Murray, 149 

Van Valkenburg, Abraham, 214; Waters, James, 37; Joanna, 157; 



217 Mary, 150, 200 ; Susan, 37 

305 Watkins, 68; Lydia, 69; William, 

143 265, 330 

65 Watson, Gerhardus, 139 ; James, 193 ; 

40 Rebecca, 238 

365 Way, Benjamin, Caroline, David, 191 ; 

301 Harley, 114, 377; Josie, 10 ; Lucy, 38 ; 

Vincent, Ezra, 213; Hannah, 85; Lydia, 191; Samuel, 174, 191; Val- 

Josias, 98, 213 entine, 191 

Voorhees, George, 24 Weaver, Samuel, 117 

Vought, Eva, 6 Weed, Addison, Dillwyn, 238 ; Oscar, 

Wade, Alverson, 58, 59, 60, 87,107; 235; family, 238; Thurlow, 265; 



family, 
Van Wort, 224; Royal, 
Vaughn, Charlotte, 
Veach, Delia, 
Vedder, Richard, 
Veley, Elizabeth, Margaret, 
Viele, Louis and family. 



William, 263 

Weeks, Addison, 237 ; A lexander, 39 ; 
Amy, 214; Anna, 131; Caleb, 126, 
230; Catharine, 121; Delia, 189; 
Emory, 236; Frank, 229; George, 
294; Ida, 214; James and familjs 
189; Jane, 83; John, 74, 131; John, 
2d, and family, 310; Julia, 189; 
Martha, 126, 166 ; Mary, 189 ; Mary 
J., 222; R. R., 115; Robert, iii; 
Stephen, 290, 294; William, 224, 230 

Weikner, Mary, 212 

61 Welch, Edward, 48, 102, 112, 377; 
50 Joseph, 102, 112; Lueze, 230; 
Thomas, 100, 102, 112, 130; William 
and family, 102 

Welch Brothers, 127 

243 Weller, Lillie, 24 

254, 255, 262, 273 WeUington, Adaline, 92 ; Eliza, 237 
31 George, 88; Henry, 



Dudley, 3, 5, 6, 24, 34, 48, 62, 66, 81, 

246; Eliza, 62; Emily, 5; Ensign, 5, 

32, 243, 377; Eunice, 62; Frank, 5; 

Imogene, 5; Jesse, 62; John, xv, 24, 

60, family, 62, 293, 376; Dr. John, 5, 

13, 60; Joseph, 61, 376; Joseph C, 

61; Joseph S., 5, 25, 27, 266, 377; 

Louisa, 61; Lovina, 60, 87; Lucy, 

60, Marcus D., 162; Marcus P., 61; 

Mary, 60; Naomi, 60; Polly, 13; 

Uriah, 156, 161, family, 162; William, 

62; Willis G., 62, 111, 300, 301, 376; 

WilUs S., 
Wadsworth, Eveline, 
Wager, Abram and family, 222 

David and family, 223; Jacob, 232 

John, 227; Luther, 222; Margaret, 

230; Morris, 227, family, 
Waite, Stephen, 
WainwTight, Abigail, 

Waldo, Daniel, 74, 75; Egbert, 74 Wells, Byron, 69; Lorinda, 22; Milton, 

Waldron, Addie, 18 74 ; Philura, 

Waldruff, David, 96; Fi-ed., 113, 261; Wescott, Betsey, 30; David, 132; 

Luther, 170; Stanton and family, 113 Susan, 61 ; William, 6 

Walker, Anna, 263 West, Submit, 265 ; William, 219 

Walmsley, E., 308; family, 311 Westbrook, Sally, 206 

Ward, 66; Eh, 22, 70, 77, family, 78, Wheeler, Ann, 68; Anna, 74; Chloe, 

79, 84; Jacob, xv; Millard, 89; 116; Eli, xv, 116; Elizabeth, 74; 

Ransom, 4,74 H. H., ix, xi; Luther, 

Waring, Georgie, 70; Joseph, 174 Whipple, Mary, 

Warne, Samuel, 133; Thomas, 292 White, Gilbert, 257; John, 90; Walter, 

Warner, Martin, 292 219, 220 

Warren, Carohne, 215; Charles, 31, Whitehead, 25; William, 47 

32; Comstock and family, 219; Whitemore, Benjamin, 240; Oliver, 

Harvey, 202; Isaac, 219; James, 111; Seth, 



82 



60 



74 
194 



111, 240 



EOSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 



443 



Whitney, Charles, 74; Louise, 69; 

Solomon, 113 

Wickwire, Gleason, 10, 11, 56; Ida, 

iii; Jarit, 33, 57; Matilda, 11, 57 

Wight, Epliraim, 300 

Wilbur, Brownell, 240, 246, 291, 293; 

Helen, 246; Marvin, 22, 291 

Wilcox, Julia, 109; Susan, 83; widow, 139 
Wilder, Martha, 74 

Wiley, Daniel, 174; Johnson, 192 

Wilkins, Rev. A. and family, 121, 276 

Wilkinson, Bert, 307 

Williams, Alfred, 76: Chester, 117; 
Harriet, 114; Dr. M. J., 288; Polly, 
85; 'Sarah, 142 

Williamson, Charles, x, xii 

Williamson's Patent, xi 

Willoughby, Mapeley, 44 

Wilson, Augusta, 61 ; Clarissa, 69, 151 ; 
Damaris, 69; Ephraim, 69, 171, 266, 
family, 267, 268; Ephraim, Jr., 12, 
family, 254, 377; George W., 304; 
Harlan and family, 12, 140, 255 ; 
Huldah, 135; Jonathan, xv, family, 
69, 276 ; Lewis, 12 ; Levern, 203, 266, 
377 ; Luther, 135 ; Maria, 90 ; Mary, 
61; Mary N., 135; Robert, 135; 
Walter, 69 

Winchell, Absalom, 169 ; Calvin and 
family, 133, 171; Catherine, 166; 
Clarissa, 149, 171 ; Giles and family, 
30,31; Jacob, 169; James, 153, 171, 
377; John, 168, family, 169; Lovina, 
169; Lucinda, 169, 177; Maria, 179; 
Riley, 169, 171 ; Russell and family, 
171; Sally, 169, 207; Sophia, 171 

Wing, Abel, 27 

Winget, Benjamin, 233; William, 16, 17 
Wisner, Charles, Charlotte, Elizabeth, 
James, Jesse, Moses, Sarah, Tem- 
perance, 17, 73 
Witherell, Ann, 229 
Wolcott, Epaphras, xv, 69; "Jim," 



77; Miriam, 80; Oliver, ix 

Wolf, J. M., 132 

Wood, Abner, 94, 105; Abram, 68; 
Collins, 254, 262, 308; David, 88; 
Elias, 114; Frank, 16; Hattie, 55; 
Hudson, 5, 10, 16, 21, 55, 56, 61, 68, 
190, 256, 309; Leora, 53; Solomon, 
87; widow, 94 

Woodard, Charles, 163; Seth, 162 

Woodman, J. H., 286 

Woodruff, Charles, 25; George, 218, 
286; Jesse, 24, 25, 28; Lambert, 25; 
Tunis, 193, 218 

Woodward, Charles, 153, 250, 274,312; 

Charles S., 298; William, 228 

Wooster, Mabel, 170 

Worden, 42; Alonzo, 190; Constan- 
tine, 187, 219; Elizabeth, 187: George, 
187; Irene, John, 187; John V., 190; 
Leonard, 187, 219; Louisa, Martha, 
190; William, 187, 219 

Wraight, Frances, 160; George, James, 159 
Wright, Aug-usta, 53; Betsey, 90; 
Charles, 28, 46, 48; Charles S., 62, 
122, 255, 264, 304, 377 ; Daniel and 
family, 53: Fi-ed, 58; "Harl.," 53; 
Irving, 305: Jacob, 28; Jason, 58: 
Manly, 132; Thomas, 74 

Wyke, John, 40 

Wykoff, Amos, 208, family, 268: Ly- 
man, 305; Sarah, William, 268 
Yale, Elizabeth, 240 
York, Eliza, 209, 230; John, 99, 126, 

131, 145; Lillian, Norman, 162 

Young, Bell, 145; Conrad, 213, 216, 
217; Electa, 145; Eson, 85, 86: Hen- 
ry, 162, 240: Israel, 240: Jared, 145: 
Jacob, John, 216; Mabel, 100; Nor- 
man, Sarah, 86 
Youngs, Kate, 273 
Zeek, William, 69 
Zeluff, Sarah, 260 



